Man sues his wife for being ugly and wins!

This is a true story that took place when I was about nine in 1965. Since I can offer no proof of this having happened that far back, you'll have to take it as anecdotal.

My father had a friend who'd married the most beautiful Sicilian woman anyone at that time had ever seen. She was absolutely drop-dead gorgeous! Her nickname was "Chicky" and she had a marvelous accent like Appolonia in the movie "The Godfather".

One day Chicky gave birth two to beautiful twin girls . . . except they had noses like bird beaks. Truly awful looking those noses were. There was much drama that went on over where those noses could have come from. After a lot of phone calls to distant relatives the husband learned he had nothing like this in his family so his suspicions fell on Chicky.

There was a reason her nickname was "Chicky".

She'd had some serious rhinoplasty done during a visit to Italy before she came to the United States. Her natural nose was like a bird's beak. She was so ashamed of the way she used to look she put it completely behind her and pretended as if she'd never had a nose that literally looked like a birds beak. She had been teased and bullied all her life until that surgery.

Upshot: The husband had the marriage annulled and she got nothing. No alimony, no child support - nothing. She was left completely on her own with two young daughters, no home, income or money and very dim prospects.

This was in California in the mid-1960's. When a woman married a man in those days, she could not have her own credit. She was unable to own her own property without her husbands permission. She was not employable unless her husband said she could work - in writing. She even gave up her name; no hyphenations allowed. She was utterly dependent on her husband for everything. That was the way it was then.

So if a husband divorced his wife, she usually got everything. She got the house, the car, the kids, alimony (for life unless she re-married) and child support. She was economically unable to afford anything on her own and divorce settlements usually favored the wife as recompense.

Why not in Chicky's case? Because she kept a deep, dark secret before going into the marriage. She kept it from the man who was to be her husband; someone from whom NO secrets, especially of this type, should be kept. Had she fessed up prior to the marriage and the fiance still married her, then he'd have had no case for divorce or annulment.

What happened to Chicky was sad. And avoidable. The bottom line is this: Do NOT keep secrets from the one you've promised to marry. A marriage is a promise between two people to spend the rest of their lives together. From Wedding Day till Death Do Us Part. It is the SINGLE most important promise you can make in your life. It is the single, most important promise any of us can ever make, and you CANNOT keep a secret, especially an important one, from the one you want to spend the rest of your life with.

Because of the above anecdotal incident I lived through, I have to rate this question a "Yes".