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Star yearbook photos: Were any "Most Likely to Succeed"?

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Dorothy Snarker

One of life’s great shared injustices is the yearbook photo. We all had to get them. And — unless they’ve somehow magically found a cure for awkwardness, geekiness and general dorkitude since I was a teenager — most of us dreaded them. For whatever reason, be it bad skin, bad clothes or the steadfast yet ultimately misguided belief in the transformative properties of big bangs, many of us look back at our school pictures and cringe. Or, at the very least, giggle. But you know what? Celebrities had to get them too, just like us mere mortals. Now that is what I call justice.

So, let’s play a little game called Name That Teenager. It’ll be fun; like being back in high school, but already knowing what everyone will look like at the class reunion. Let the games begin:

Among them you have a Rock star, an Alien hunter, an alphaBette and the possible next president of the United States of America.

Give up?

Up next, a group that clearly spared no expense on the Aqua Net.

In fact, I think a large portion of the blame for the hole in the ozone layer can be attributed to aerosol hairspray use by the two on the left.

Give up?

This next lot butched it up in their formative years, or more accurately, their hair did.

Bottom right is giving me a total Some Kind of Wonderful flashback. God, how cute was Mary Stuart Masterson in her fingerless gloves in that movie? But I digress.

Give up?

Finally, I bring you some possible stumpers.

I’ll give you a hint: Three of them have almost the exact same first name. Also, can we please savor the mad fashion genius that is top left hand corner’s pencil motif T-shirt? Are those No. 2 pencils? She is so ready for her SATs.

Give up?

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    • Submitted by
    Dorothy Snarker
    on February 21, 2008 - 4:12pm.
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    RedReeder's picture

    When Big Hair Reigned

    Submitted by
    RedReeder (20 posts)
    on February 21, 2008 - 4:44pm.
    Wow, these photos are great.  I didn't recognize Hallie or Renee. Kate Beckinsale is such a cutie.  And Sigourney was even hot back in the day.  I love JLo's cut; I bet she was too cool for school. 
    Eise's picture

    Halle Berry...

    Submitted by
    Eise (32 posts)
    on February 21, 2008 - 5:31pm.
    She is the only one I did not recognize. I thought it was Cicely Tyson. What a knock out Halle has become!
    Kaytiana's picture

    I recognised Halle, but I

    Submitted by
    Kaytiana (154 posts)
    on February 21, 2008 - 5:32pm.

    I recognised Halle, but I have seen photos of her before, things like clips of her doing miss world when she still kinda looked like that.

    Kaytiana's picture

    I didn't recognise Jen

    Submitted by
    Kaytiana (154 posts)
    on February 21, 2008 - 5:31pm.

    I didn't recognise Jen Garner or Kate Walsh at all, but looking now I can't see how I couldn't tell!!  Renee, however, I'm still not convinced that's her!!

    Katee Sackhoff was gawgeous!  Recognised her immediately.  And Heather Graham was so cute, I think I would have been in love with her (it's reddish curls!).

     I can't believe how much some people have changed, I look exactly the same in all my school photos, right through from age 4 to 18, and I still do now, just slightly bigger!!

    7Up's picture

    lol

    Submitted by
    7Up (141 posts)
    on February 21, 2008 - 6:07pm.
    hilarious, makes me wonder what ever happened to my highschool year books?
    Ms-Brightside's picture

    Tina Fey is such a shocker!!

    Submitted by
    Ms-Brightside (12 posts)
    on February 21, 2008 - 6:09pm.
    Tina Fey is such a shocker!!
    Kabel_P's picture

    Tina Fey

    Submitted by
    Kabel_P (6 posts)
    on February 21, 2008 - 6:22pm.
    I absolutely love Tina Fey, but she looks like my 50 years old aunt in that picture!
    Z3C's picture

    Agreed

    Submitted by
    Z3C (67 posts)
    on February 21, 2008 - 11:36pm.
    Not that I know your 50 year old aunt, but I think Tina Fey looks a lot older in that picture than she looks now.  Oh well, at least the years have been kind to her.
    leishahaha's picture

    yearbook

    Submitted by
    leishahaha (95 posts)
    on February 21, 2008 - 7:38pm.
    After doing this article, I think it's only fair to post your yearbook photo! Come on Ms. Snarker, cough it up. :P
    Leokris83's picture

    I was stumped

    Submitted by
    Leokris83 (13 posts)
    on February 21, 2008 - 8:00pm.

    I knew almost all of them except Liz Phair, Kate Beckinsale, Kate Walsh, and Katee Sackhoff (I didn't know here real name, but she looked familar).

    Wow how some of them have changed (Halle for one).

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    Hope

    Submitted by
    Carm (17 posts)
    on February 21, 2008 - 8:06pm.
    It should give every dorky little girl with braces hope to see how gorgeous Jennifer Beals turned out.
    glwtta's picture

    That photo of Katee Sackhoff

    Submitted by
    glwtta (82 posts)
    on February 21, 2008 - 8:27pm.
    That photo of Katee Sackhoff would've been taken something like 4 years before BSG started - not exactly a stumper.
    gotkaylee's picture

    And somehow I still think

    Submitted by
    Blythe (12 posts)
    on February 21, 2008 - 8:56pm.

    And somehow I still think Jennifer Beals looked oddly adorable.

    Shane: I gotta say, I think she's kinda cute.
    Alice: I know! In a nerdy way. I think so too.

    Damn you, L Word.

    Zen Warrior's picture

    Heh...

    Submitted by
    Plushie (17 posts)
    on February 21, 2008 - 9:15pm.

    Would it be strange to say that the exact same lines were running through my head when I saw Jennifer Beals? xDD

    Man, I've always been a sucker for braces. xD 

    -Currently: Searching for myself...

    Daniela_unseen's picture

    surgery?¿?¿

    Submitted by
    Daniela (4 posts)
    on February 21, 2008 - 9:35pm.

     

    mmm... plastic surgery!!! and naturals changes!!!.
    oh my gosh!!,... Jennifer Beals!!...lol ....anyway, still I love her so much!!

    Hyde's picture

    Oh, Natalie.

    Submitted by
    Chelsea (4 posts)
    on February 21, 2008 - 11:15pm.
    I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks Beals is "oddly adorable", but only second to Natalie Portman. Looks like this kid I use eat my Lunchables with in 6th grade. She played the oboe. Hawt. xD
    taylor's picture

    big hair scare indeed!

    Submitted by
    taylor (15 posts)
    on February 21, 2008 - 11:43pm.

    Bad memories! My bangs were sooo big  in highschool. I remember standing in the mirror layering on the hair spray! *sic*

    LilyJadeRose's picture

    *smh*

    Submitted by
    LilyJadeRose (145 posts)
    on February 22, 2008 - 1:05am.

     i thought the mariah carey photo was beyonce' (which is shocking considering i'm a huge MC fan) and i thought halle's photo was phylica rashaad.  all these stars changed for the better over years....especially tina fey!  and i can only pray to the higher power that my high school photos don't come back to haunt me.  lol

     ~i am bisexual.  you are confused.~

    klabunda's picture

    i cant believe

    Submitted by
    Klara (55 posts)
    on February 22, 2008 - 6:35am.

    renee was cute when she was young! ok, that was mean..

    but acutally it gives me great pleasure to see how good the years did them other ladies. even when i look at my highschool pics, i think i look much better than 15 years ago! mature rulez, wrinkles rock!

    imma's picture

    Nose-job, anyone?

    Submitted by
    G.G. (11 posts)
    on February 22, 2008 - 1:42pm.

    All fine examples of good plastic surgery (and some bad haircuts). Can I get the clinic phone number?

    _______

    Oooooh, I love a bit of cake. Oooooh, cake. Oooooh, cake. Cake. Cake. Cake. Cake. I'm just one of these people. I come home and I need a piece of cake. [Marjorie Dawes]

    erine26's picture

    halley berry!!LOL

    Submitted by
    julyeighteen8 (1 post)
    on February 27, 2008 - 9:52pm.

    hahhaha! i didnt even recognize my all-time crush! OMG! she's still pretty for me..

    where did you get these stuffs?! its amazing!

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    tobia's picture

    It's amazing the sheer

    Submitted by
    "T. Obia" (36 posts)
    on May 9, 2008 - 9:51am.
    It's amazing the sheer amount of mullets that are on display! (I kid, I kid...) Many of them are beautiful, intelligent, strong-willed (and certainly determined) -- then and now.

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