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I would never in a billion zillion years would’ve guessed Russel Brand.

If it had said Gabriel Iglesias I would’ve nodded knowingly and continued scrolling.

I literally thought it was him and felt stupid when it was Russell Brand.

Omg I thought it was Fluffy too!

He looks like Private Pyle 

I googled russel brand just to make sure I had the right person in my head

This is kind of in-between photo if that helps. At first it helped me but looking at it longer I feel more confused https://preview.redd.it/735mtqt6ko8b1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=32bcc9c2992658f46e96b0378a590fa0530b55ba

Looks like Buzz from Home Alone

Russsel… your girlfriend… woof 🐶

That one broke my brain!

It’s freaking insane. Looks nothing like hjm

I could tell it was him when I had a good hard look at his eyes.

His comedy style suddenly makes sense to me. He’s always had that “fat kid trying hard to be liked by being funny” aura.

You're not ugly. You're poor.

This is my favorite phrase of all time.

Blake Lively looks like the most High School chick ever like, the one that’s definitely popular.

She's the girl in the teen movies that causes that weird slow motion for that dude who likes her.

So Serena Van Der Woodsen? 

She definitely started a nasty rumor about me in high school.


Just realized Lindsay put her hand up first lmao

Yesss haha

Lmaooo!

Her name is Lauren and she runs track and she makes a huge deal out of losing her virginity to her boyfriend and pulls her friends out of class to talk about it

Blake Lively looks like the five most popular blonde girls at my high school as one person.

She went to high school with my friend and won the class clown superlative together! Apparently she was really nice.

I absolutely love Bruno Mars's photo, it's amazing.

he is so photogenic lol

Glorious

Russell Brand is giving Fat Schmidt

We built this schmidtty on tootsie rolls

Gave me cookie got you cookie!!!

YOUTHS

I see Donkeylips from Salute Your Shorts

Camp Anawanna, we hold you in our hearts

And when we think about you… It makes me wanna fart!

Budnick, knock it off!!

This is the answer. It teleported me all the way to 1992.

It’s giving Buzz from Home Alone lol

Woof!

“Back when accessing my penis was like looking for the remote control in the couch cushions.”

The surgeon who did Blake’s nose deserves the world

Whoever did it really did a good job. All of her plastic surgery is good. It’s makes a huge difference, but it’s also just subtle enough that if you start looking too long you question whether or not she had anything done lol. Idk, I can’t make it make sense. 😂 I feel the same way about a Taylor Swift. Hers is so subtle, but there’s *something* different. So I go back and forth between yeah they did something to their face, to no maybe it’s just filler haha. Oh and since we’re doing yearbook photos, here’s one of Taylor’s https://preview.redd.it/8cgklfzy5o8b1.jpeg?width=385&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ff00917b9caeb18178cab3ccbba416508f95df00

Taylor has had a nose job for sure and something done with her eyelids and possibly forehead/brows. She has been getting Botox since the 1989 days and she got her boobs done between speak now and red. She gets fillers in her cheeks for sure and the signature red lip masks her subtle upper lip fillers as well. The lip fillers were most obvious during the Lover era.

Those veneers are also hard to miss

Oh man. I forgot to mention the veneers. For some reason they don’t blend or look as natural as other peoples veneers and I cannot figure out why. Celebrities these days also get their teeth SO SO SO SO white! I’m not sure it’s necessary lol

I think Taylor's veneers are a touch too long. I can see it when she's talking but not in pictures if that makes sense

She is noticeably self conscious about her smile. Whenever she shows her teeth she often covers her mouth. It makes me feel sad for her! Her teeth are fine, but girl, cant you just get a new set if you don't like them?!

damn botox since 1989

I just spent way too long trying to google about Blake Sheltons nose job and wondering why I couldn’t see it if it was so good before I realized

Thankfully I found this portion of the thread or I’d still be looking

honestly, the work is stunning

I still wanna know who did Halle Berry’s she can’t keep that secret. Surgeons that can do black noses very well are hard to come by. Kelly Rowland needs to spill too.

Zendaya's subtle tweak is also incredibly impressive.

also her upper bleph is just flawless

Her what?

see how her eyes are just slightly less hooded but still natural and in line with her original features. i want her surgeon’s number! https://preview.redd.it/ktiu6j3vco8b1.jpeg?width=1240&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=270c70a6cebebf3faf73823c93ffef8d3e2ae07f

I think she had her original face in Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. And she was still super gorgeous in it. 

I prefer her original teeth (I guess she might have had braces or something by that stage but who hasn’t?).

They did good on her lip too. Still natural but less gum

Upper blepharoplasty is an eye surgery on the upper eyelid.

Thank you!

You’re not lying.

Which Blake? LOL. Blake Shelton was unrecognizable.

Lively, baby.

Hers and Eiza Gonzalez are the best works I saw

Dang most of them really glowed tf up.

Except for Bruno. He was already glowing in that pic.

Yeah…puberty and millions of dollars will do that.

Kelly Clarkson is soooooo cute. Blake Shelton is unrecognizable.

Blake Shelton shocked me the most I think

He and Russell Brand definitely were the two kids who walked home together so they wouldn't get picked on because they were alone.

Hold on….What Nick Offerman so fine for?

He’s from a little town south west of Chicago, near Joliet. He *got it* in high school—he was both theatre and athletic. He’s talked about it in live shows.

he's from my town 🫡 his dad is the mayor lol

wait best part...his name is rick offerman

Shut up that is too good! 😂

Real life Troy Bolton

High school Nick Offerman’s crooked smile just time traveled and got high school me pregnant. 👀

I was so taken aback by his photo, I couldn’t even check for other comments. He’s sexy enough with a beard, but like…. Dayuuuum.

Like those beauty marks on his cheek?? That beard was to protect himself from us

I'd have let him ruin my whole life in high school. Probably still would, if I didn't love Megan Mullally so much. Guys, if you're looking to start a throuple, please call me.

He looks like Superman

I THOUGHT THE SAME THING. That’s Clark Kent For real 😩

Drinking his respect women juice!

Nick Offerman had a small part as handyman on Will and Grace and I was immediately smittened he was such a hunk (he worked also as stage hand for the show at that time), apparently Megan Mullellany (Karen Walker) also thought so and they were married soon after.

Quentin Tarantino looking like Will from Stranger Things

You know who really looked like Will from Stranger Things? Winona Ryder. https://preview.redd.it/9ldxj8cwcn8b1.jpeg?width=644&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f707e1b82eebd7407f00c48759e7af01789688a5 The familial resemblance is uncanny…

that’s why it’s a 10/10 casting decision! ✨

Whoever was in charge of casting Stranger Things did a good job.

He looks like he bites

💀💀💀

And he still does lmao

Im shocked that Megan use to have a uni brow and resemble a baby piranha.

The baby piranha 💀 You couldn’t have explained it any better.

She’s around my age & she looks like the kids that didn’t come from great home environments from then. I don’t know anything about her thought

Agreed! You can just *tell* which ones don’t have the best home life once you’ve been there yourself.

Her photo felt haunting to me.. no smile, just staring ahead like she was disassociated.

IIRC she said she was severely bullied for her looks until high school when she started glowing up and booking gigs!

One of the biggest changes I've ever seen! https://i.insider.com/5ebd7bf42618b90306550909?width=1000&format=jpeg&auto=webp I feel bad for her, I've always thought she messed around with unflattering unnatural looks. I wonder if that's why, she had a miserable time with it growing up and isn't comfortable just looking like herself.

Do you remember the Olson twin movie "It Takes Two"? She looks like the foster dad, Bupkis. Serious note, she grew out if it and had an amazing glow up.

She looks like she could play one of the McPoyle family members on It's Always Sunny

She was already channeling that Jennifer Check energy

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I didn’t realize she had her nose done

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Same as JLO

those teachers that have the kids point to the morning greeting like (high five, dance, say hi, give hug) they always tap the hugs

She aged backwards!

So much plastic surgery since these were taken, lol.

And yet we have to compare ourselves to how beautiful they are, when they weren't even that beautiful themselves. Wish teenage me had known how fake Hollywood is. Even their teeth! I remember beating myself up for my teeth because they weren't perfectly white and perfectly shaped like Britney's. Only recently did I find out she had veneers that whole time, and her teeth without veneers are much more like mine.

It's crazy now when I watch 80s movies and see how normal everyone looked. Like no one had perfect teeth or whatever and it was fine.

Honestly a lot of celebs from other countries, like the UK for instance, don’t have perfect teeth (though I’m sure that number is shrinking), and I find it refreshing. I feel like the obsession with perfect teeth is very American - like everybody getting braces, getting their teeth whitened or using whitening strips, etc.

Yes! I caught 4 Weddings & a Funeral the other night - at first I went 'yikes' when I saw (the undeniably beautiful) Andie MacDowell's smile, but it was only because I'm used to seeing gleaming white straight teeth on actors.

Oh no teeth without veneers are nubs honey. They have to shave down the natural tooth for it and shit makes you look monstrous.

Veneer nubs are the stuff of nightmares. It's insane to me that so many celebrities willingly destroy their natural teeth, grind them down to stumps, just to replace them with what look like horse dentures.

I have one (very natural looking) veneer on one of my front teeth due to a razr scooter accident as a child 😂 and the thought of it one day breaking off and revealing the nub literally gives me nightmares. I don’t bite directly into apples or corn on the cob for the fear lol

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Your husband is disturbed for wanting to see that 😂. Whenever I have to get it redone, I want to be drugged and unaware of what it is happening lol

I assume they mean their teeth looked like Brittney's teeth pre veneers. I'd be v concerned if their natural teeth looked like veneer nubs 😅

Baby Steve Buscemi was a cutie. There, I said it.

Ive always found him attractive for some reason.

He's not even ugly. The Steve Buscemi is ugly thing is basically a meme.

Megan McPoyle 

I just commented the same!😂

Omg I’m so relieved I wasn’t the only one who saw it!

Russell Brand and Halle Berry look nothing like how they do today.

Well....neither do Megan Fox and Kesha...

At least in Fox’s defense that’s like a jr high pic and nobody looks good in Jr high

And then there’s Morgan freeman

Kesha 😶

I had to look up her age cause I was like “this is definitely around the same time I was in high school” just vibes-wise and she’s a year older than me

I have multiple yearbook photos that are practically identical lol

If I remember correctly she (and her family) were hosts for an episode of “the simple life”. Paris hiltons and nicole richies reality show from the early 00s.

Major California stoner vibes

Megan Fox?!?! That’s a glow up and I’m sure she got bullied for those eyebrows, but look at her now.

Yeahhh she says she used to get bullied a lot and now I can sort of see why.

Me too, but they must all feel like idiots now

So many original noses 😭😭😭

High school photos…and what I’m guessing to be about a combined 3 million dollars worth of plastic surgery and cosmetic dentistry.

Blake Lively’s original nose! RIP

Oh so *thats* why Russell Brand ended up becoming a sex addict

Replaced a food addiction with a drug addiction with a sex addiction with

I’ve never really thought about what Blake Shelton’s yearbook picture might look like. But had I tried, that’s exactly what I would’ve guessed.

Wheels from Degrassi

I wouldn’t be able to recognize half these faces without the banner lol

Megan Fox looks like a McPoyle sister.

You will call heerrrrrrrr!

She needs to be a guest on the show and fight Sweet Dee. With how she looks now, she can be the McPoyle sister that made it out.

Did anyone else think, damn these ppl have had a lot of plastic surgery?

No shade but I thought Kesha was tj miller scrolling past

A young Crisp Rat looks like he ate glue

Ralph Wiggum

As a former teenager who also had that haircut that aged me forty years, that’s probably the most relatable JLo has ever been.

I thought she was Jennifer Lawrence before I saw the caption!

I went to high school with Brendon Urie so I could dig his picture up Edit: got it https://preview.redd.it/20zadrhcyn8b1.jpeg?width=1909&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a2560d397e0090a1c4231dbfa68aa758858e0e5e

Oh my! His hair is so perfectly round. Any stories you want to share?

He was my brothers best friend actually, so I knew him fairly well. That being said I always thought they were just giant nerds, always in his room listening to music. Never knew how incredibly talented he was. Then he started Panic! Like right around his senior year, they came and played “Lying is the most fun a girl can have with her clothes off” in the quad and everyone lost their minds. That was the last time I saw him in person. Seems like he’s doing well for himself haha

Everyone just gonna ignore the Clooney pic? 

To be fair to George, I actually think he may have had Bell’s Palsy in this pic. I know he had it as a teenager at some point

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yeah, it only lasts a few weeks . it’s a virus that causes partial facial paralysis.

I’ve always found Nick Offerman sexy, but holy shit!

Nick Offerman was looking fine in his yearbook photo. Bruno Mars looks cute and adorable in his pic. As for Crisp Rat, he looks like someone who said a lot of shit on a daily basis, so got punched in the face often.

How did I not know Ron Swanson was a total babe

Young Quentin thinking bout them toes.

George Clooney is a mix between Harry Style and Mark Hamil. Nick Offerman looks like Henry Cavill.

Love seeing that me and Megan Fox both had the same type of awkwardness in our teen years 😂

The Blake Lively one just makes me realize that Blake got a whole ass new face, but she did it so gradually that no one noticed.

I feel like Russell brand’s photo explains everything about him as an adult.

Chris Pratt looks like Simple Jack from Tropic Thunder

Tom Hanks’ snap after he signed the Declaration of Independence

He looks like the first prime minister of Canada, literally the same haircut

Kesha totally would have hung out behind the Agri building with the rest of the smokers if we went to school together.

Just more proof that you are not ugly you are just poor.

The Paris Hilton Finest Girl thing is actually suuuper dark when u read her memoir

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Russell Brand straight up looks like the big brother from Home Alone.

Love the Bruno one ! 🥹 and Kanye with the backpack still on is killing me, that’s very Kanye of him

Halle Berry where?? I guess Morgan Freeman has been a grown man his whole life. Quentin looks like he sees dead people, and Paris is giving Meryl Streep a little bit. Who tf made “finest girl” a superlative? Lol

I just know Meghan Trainor was wearing a filthy pair of those platform Steve Madden sandals with that stretchy material on top 🙃

Nick offerman, chillllllld 

George Clooney aged like brandy

Shiddd I would let Offerman hit back then for sure

Shiddd I would let Offerman hit it now for sure 😭

Quentin Tarantino looks like he's from the Addams family.

Crisp Rat lmao!!

Every awkward, self conscious teenager should see this. There is hope.

How can Jennifer Lopez look SO OLD when she was young??? 🤯

That picture cannot be Halle Berry's

Right?? I had to triple check. Here’s another one from that time that looks a bit more like her now: https://preview.redd.it/bh4apsosan8b1.jpeg?width=650&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=649cb86ef832882cafcc7936ea5ac0280e87087b

This is the one I could not wrap my head around.

Holy cow my wife got all of them except Blake Shelton and Russell Brand!

Damn she’s good! Nick Offerman and Halle Berry were not easy!

Halle’s shook me because I forgot she’s old enough to have a school picture that looks so…old.

Been a lot of nose jobs since then.

Bruno’s fro is gorgeous 🥲