Dramatically different looking to her blonde, bronzed bandmates, the 23-year-old is a pale redhead.
After years of relying on her singing voice to get attention, Nicola has finally begun to embrace her unusual looks and has a newfound confidence in her appearance.
In a revealing new interview, Nicola admits she often broke down in tears over criticism of her looks and comparisons to her bandmates.
Fighting back: Nicola Roberts admits she cried about cruel taunts over her looks
Nicola was just 18 when she was plucked from thousands of girls to win a place in the band on Popstars: The Rivals in December 2002.
Plucked from a normal upbringing in Cheshire, Nicola was unprepared for the tough media criticism of her looks - and from Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles.
Moyles said: 'Nicola is not the most striking one out of Girls Aloud, unless by striking, you mean ginger,' and 'It’s nothing to do with her hair or the way her face or body is, it’s that the sour-faced old cow never smiles – ever'.
Proud to be different: Nicola and her bandmates (L-R) Kimberley Walsh, Sarah Harding, Cheryl Cole and Nadine Coyle
She tells this week's Heat magazine: 'I’m not gonna sit and pretend I’m hard as nails. It did make me feel like s**t. I did cry about it.
'I was a young girl and everyone was saying the others were stunning and I was the ugly one. No young girl wants to be seen like that.
'I was even embarrassed with my boyfriend at the time. I wondered if he felt like he was going out with the ugly one.
'Does anybody really give a shit whether I might not be as pretty as the rest of the girls? Is it really that big a deal? No it isn’t. Not any more.'
Worse for wear: Nicola celebrating her 23rd birthday earlier this month
It's only been in recent months that Nicola has started feeling more confident with her appearance and began experimenting with her shade of hair colour and fashion sense.
She said: 'I stopped being so fixated on becoming this pretty, bronzed, blonde commercial-looking woman and started to lean towards wanting to be individual, left of field and different.
'I am never ever going to look like that, so what’s the point? What happened is that I so desperately wanted to look like that it was messing my head up, so I started to sway to the other side.'
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