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Urijah Faber warned teammate Paige VanZant about 'pretty girl syndrome'

You might think that with 21-year-old Paige VanZant riding a 3-0 UFC streak and pulling down high profile endorsements that the world is her oyster. After all, she has the "it" factor.

But according to Team Alpha Male founder Urijah Faber, he warned "12 Gauge" early on there's been a price to that success. Namely, the haters.

Faber told Dave Doyle of MMAFighting.com that VanZant was just "thrown into that whirlwind" that is being both talented and (let's call a spade a spade) drop dead gorgeous:

"I think it's part of being a girl and the pretty girl syndrome, you're going to have a lot of haters.