Sometimes "high maintenance" is tied to looks. If you're the prettiest person in your family/social group and they treat you special because of it, you expect all people to treat you this way, to bend over for you.
If you're pretty, but everyone else is and no one makes a big deal of it... you become a Betty.
In other words, better to date a Beauty Queen's "ugly" sister, who's actually ten times hotter than most people but not swell-headed about it, because she's not always the center of attention.![]()