Was Donna actually hot?

I would take Donna over Jackie any day, even if we ignore Jackie's self-centered character. And to me, she looks much better with the straight red hair. So, yes, I think she's totally hot. Too bad that she never wore some revealing clothes, like Jackie did a few times.

Yes, she was an unconventional beauty whilst Laurie/Jackie were the conventional beauties.

Yeah I always thought Jackie's description of Donna as a lumberjack was pretty accurate too. Again I am also a straight female so maybe I just don't get it, but Donna just wasn't feminine enough to considered sexy in my opinion. In the first season she seem to at least try a little with her makeup and clothes, but after that she didn't do much with her make up and she always wore plaid and jeans. I thought her build was kind of masculine as it was, and then to dress like that. The only thing attractive about her was her red hair and big boobs and then she got rid of the red. The blond did not look natural at all. I don't think she was fat she her natural build was on the larger side again not looking very feminine.

When her hair was red, hell ya!

After she went blonde, not so much.

A Superman without trunks isn't worth watching or reading about.

i always thought she was gorgeous and WAY more attractive than Jackie on every level, and never thought she was "butch" at all even when they tried to make her seem that way.
the only times i thought she didn't look as good were a few occasions where she wore this gray shirt with red stripes on the collar and sleeves or something (one of which was on season 3's "Eric's Drunken Tattoo"), that i didn't think looked good on her.

Hotter than hell !

"You work your side of the street, and I'll work mine"

She was a hippo.

They were a bunch of teenagers in a small town. They didn't have many other girls around. Also, it was mostly her boobs that the guys liked. "Big D", all them nicknames