Ugly Betty just won a Globe....

....and she thanked her mother. I'm sure she's a very nice person. This isn't aimed at her at all.

She looked elegant in a gown among the glitz and glamour of Hollywood's finest as she stood before them, speaking of how she gets emails from girls who feel as if they are worthy and loveable after watching her show.

The cameras scanned the crowd. There were tears in the eyes of all of the beautiful actors and actresses, their wives, partners, lovers, cameramen, directors, producers, etc.

When her speech was done, she walked to the side of the stage. Someone obviously told her she would be interviewed by an announcer standing there. Betty stood there, next to the announcer, shifting a bit from foot to foot, just not quite sure in her endearing way that she should be standing there.

Clearly it was either a mis-cue....or she just stood in the wrong place. She's a natural.

For a moment I found all of this heartwarming. Then my trouble-making Irish self thought ....

So what?

There's this beautiful actress hired to be dressed up as "ugly". But she's not ugly. It could only happen in Hollywood - that make-up is used to make her ugly. And the sad thing is that there are real girls out there writing to her about their feelings because they feel ugly. Maybe they're not ugly either.

Maybe none of us are ugly. Radical thinking, I know. If any of us received a Hollywood makeover so we could get an award at the Golden Globes and wore an expensive gown or tux, had people work on our make-up, and pamper us - we could all look much better.

Yet maybe the lesson of Ugly Betty needs to be not that we should all have a "feel good" moment that she's a role model, but that Hollywood has created such a false definition of beauty that real kids worry that they aren't good enough, worthy or loveable.

Go hug your kids. Tell them they're beautiful.