I have two friends with mothers who converted. One of them was at a shiur and she was hearing all this stuff about how important yichus is, and how it’s such a major deal in shidduchim, and it’s just not the same when you have a convert or baal teshuvah, and tzaddik ben tzaddik, and all that kind of stuff. She came out of there looking like she was about to cry. It happens to be, she has married siblings who found great matches. I just told her what jfem mentioned about a built-in filter, because it’s totally true. I wish I had one like that.
Actually, when I think about it, being overweight and not pretty, I DO have a built in filter. Handy.