The hottest man in America? Uhh, not so much these days!

Brad Pitt is in need of a serious make-over! With his scraggly gray beard, the actor looked almost unrecognizable as he walked through Nice International Airport in France Thursday.

We certainly hope Brad’s letting himself go strictly to disguise himself in order to fool the crazy paparazzi! A little facial hair on a man can be hot but that unkept beard is straight-up disgusting! Did we just spot leftover’s from his lunch?

If it’s not to fool the paps, Pitt is likely marking a transition or marking a new stage in his career,” says Dr. Alan Peterkin, psychiatrist and author of One Thousand Beards: A Cultural History of Facial Hair.

Hold up, wait a minute! There’s actually a book about facial hair?! This shit is bananas.

Peterkin tells Usmagazine.com that a beard allows a man “to change his public face. Most men growing facial hair around his age are being ironic. It’s a bit of a wink of the eye; ‘I’m not taking this too seriously and nor should you.’”

Is Brad sick and tired of being the sexiest man alive?

The facial hair guru adds that Pitt may be “tired of being a part of one of the most beautiful couples in the world. He wants to try a new look.”

Fair enough… but the look isn’t doing shit for him! We’d rather kiss our dog than that scrappy mess!

While Peterkin can continue to justify Pitt’s new look, women like celeb hairstylist Sally Hershberger think it’s time for him to lose the beard!

“I don’t love gray facial hair, especially on someone as handsome as Brad,” she tells Us.

Though the actor may have “reasoning behind his look,” she suggests that he trim it and dye it all brown.

“I would prefer for him to shave it completely.”