Looks means nothing in my work either as a midwife. It really comes down to experience and your contacts.
Another student has, in the past, suggested that many women would prefer someone like her as a midwife because she is overweight with massive boobs, and therefore "motherly". I, apparently, have the figure of a spinster aunt or sister which will appeal to some but not to most. I **** you not, she said this with a straight face.