25 Rarely Seen Snapshots Of Celebrities In Their Awkward Younger Years

It’s easy to forget that every celebrity used to just be some kid with a bad haircut and no idea what was coming.

Like, there was a version of every famous person alive who wore something terrible to prom and got a yearbook photo they’d rather nobody ever saw. These are those photos. Before the stylists and the trainers and the publicists — back when they were just regular people being regular amounts of awkward. It’s honestly comforting.

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1. Anthony Hopkins

2. Back in his earlier body building days, Arnold Schwarzenegger worked for a bricklaying company

3. Chaka Khan

4. Dave Grohl

5. Janis Joplin’s high school yearbook photo, 1960

6. Stephen King

7. Gillian Anderson

8. Carrie Fisher and her mom, Debbie Reynolds

9. Chris Farley

10. That is Harrison Ford working as a carpenter

11. 17 year old Susan Sarandon

12. Alfred Hitchcock

13. Johnny Knoxville

14. Michael Jackson “in disguise” out on the town with Tatum O’Neal

15. MIchael Keaton working as a stagehand on Mr. Rogers Neighborhood in the early 70s

16. Tommy Lee

17. Bela Lugosi

18. Rue McClanahan (Blanche Devereaux on The Golden Girls)

19. Tom Cruise, Emilio Estevez, C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio, Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze, and Matt Dillon, 1983

20. Judy Garland

21. Dave Grohl, Ru Paul, tiny Frances Bean, and Kurt Cobain

22. Ann-Margret

23. tephen Colbert and David Schwimmer with their improv group

24. Kurt Cobain playing drums at Montesano High School

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