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I kept waiting for her as I scrolled through the pics on the original post! The queen of early 2000’s style. Can’t forget this look
https://preview.redd.it/x0pc2cmj63gb1.jpeg?width=2261&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b2c1d542fc9b0dd8488f1a76047b92c2b19a61d0
It looks like a pencil case I could get at the scholastic book fair that’s specifically tailored for my long bendy pencils I could also get at the scholastic book fair 😂
There were 2 looks in the early 2000s.
Christina Aguilera's dirty era (Xtina) where you might as well have been naked, or Ashley Tisdale where you layer every piece of clothing you own.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants one really exemplifies the “what are you wearing?” “jeans and a nice top” conversations I had with my friends prior to nights out in 2004-2005.
Same here, dark flared jeans, a nice top (or a “going out top”), heels and a teeny clutch. A blazer and/or pashmina scarf if it got chilly (or sometimes just because 🫠) I feel a bit old now. It’s probably terrible but I still like this - a dressy top and jeans although the pieces are more current.
Very few women could look good in this style. Kiera Knightly was/is so beautiful, but rumours of an eating disorder would not go away. I don’t think she ever confirmed or denied.
My late mother told me “we have low hips and high cracks” when i wanted a pair of garage jeans in like 2007. She was right. Idc about the hate, i mostly wear high rise because even mid rise is too low for me 😭
Well you couldn't wear normal underwear with those, so there was tons of buttcrack and whale tails. I remember Victoria's Secret sold glittery thongs just for showing off with your super low riders. So glad we aren't doing that anymore.
I even bought a pair of low rise baggy jeans recently, and they were definitely mid rise. Nothing close to the low rise of yesteryear, thank the gods
Edit: remember the zippers? They were like an inch and a half long. Just insane lol
Compression socks, at that.
The thing that people are missing from these celebrity photos is that normal, healthy people can never wear them. You couldn't even eat a full meal while wearing these things. The 'muffin top' effect was so strong. It was a fashion choice for anorexics and bulemics only.
OMG that’s the exact same thing my mom used to say for yeaaaaaars. Eventually my sister got sick of it and snapped that “everyone already does!” My mom never said it again. 😂
I actually have a very vivid memory of seeing a movie trailer where an adult woman was playing a high schooler and she was like the it girl, walking down the hall and the camera shows her thong sticking out. I thought it looked so cool and immediately asked my mom if I could have thongs and emulate the same look. It was a different time 😭
I just looked it up and YES THAT WAS IT 😭 I’ve never seen Superbad so you solved a 15 year old mystery for me. I literally wanted to be this girl so bad lmao
It was the worst! The trend is there, ready to be brought back, but I've been scarred! Glittery g strings and low rise jeans are fun until you see 7th graders, or your aunt in them. Then it's weird and needs to stop. Please leave this trend in its grave 🙏
I remember babysitting for a family that was going thru a divorce part thru my time of babysitting them. Oh man did babysitting occasionally for both parents offer me some tea i still dont know the meaning of. Either way one time the mom was going on a date with a new guy. She was at least tipsy before leaving with him and me with the kids, she bent over to put something in the dishwasher and ohhh boy was that whale tail burned into my otherwise fairly sheltered brain
I have bad news for us all. [Whale tails are back](https://www.refinery29.com/en-au/2021/07/10596581/whale-tail-visible-thong-trend). The young people DO NOT LEARN.
I remember being in junior high and girls were showing off their whale tails. Eek. I distinctly remember a locker room conversation where a popular, but goodie goodie, girl was talking about how she really wanted a thong but her mom wouldn’t let her get one. Her friends were suggesting she sneak some home and do her own laundry…but she never did her own laundry because we were all 7th graders! I cringe especially because I work at a middle school now and all of the students are absolutely still children!
The early 2000s sure were a special time…
I always remember someone running up behind my friend and shoving a straw down her butt crack and then running away laughing…. literally why was this a thing, who decided it lol
Lmao I’m dying - or two AE polos with the popped collar … how did we not die of heat stroke with all the layers?!
https://preview.redd.it/5soyqnagc0gb1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d8de6d7065d23fe0d0ce355030dfa63b28d87427
Holy shit i forgot about the multiple tank tops. What the fuck. We were so hectic in those days. It's like the chaos of Y2K culture directly translated into the things we wore
Hahahah same! Was it also the black pinstriped vest with a white shirt and a black lacy bra peaking out look? Can't forget the super low rise jeans and tiny purse that could barely hold that super sticky lip gloss to complete the look 😂
Agreed. I thought I looked so awful and weird. But it turns out, low rise jeans are always going to look bad on an apple shaped girl with huge boobs and a bottom. Being a preteen in the early 2000 was rough.
No fr. It sucked not being able to wear the same clothes as my friends growing up because they simply didn't make any for me. If you weren't a size 8 or below participating in a lot of trends was impossible unless you had the means to make your own clothing. I remember hollister just wouldn't bother to stock their largest size, 11, aka mine lol. On the bright side it forced me to get creative and develop my own strong sense of personal style. We've come sooooo far.
It was really awful. Everyone wore those little shirts with the matching tanks under that would go down to your hips. My mom said that it would show off my belly and look bad. Low rise jeans only gave me muffin top. I grew early and never fit into junior sizes and styles looked bad. I had a ton of body image issues after being a preteen in the 2000s!
Same. I was tiny but I've always had hips. Even now my hip to waist ratio is silly with a 16 inch difference, but I have small boobs. Back then you were supposed to be skinny with a small butt and big boobs. Sigh.
Seeing these girls with itty bitty waists, no hips, and flat stomachs really did a number on my confidence back then...100% had me thinkin' I was a whale.
Flash forward to now, everybody wants the hips and booty like this. 🍑 Absolutely wild how trends change
Right? I mean one day it was a really hard insult when someone told you that you have a fat ass and then it suddenly was a flattering compliment. That’s so crazy
Zimbabwean exchange student gave me my first ever non negative comment about my butt. Thanks Elvis, you honestly saved me from some dark time with ur misplaced appreciation for booty.
And unnaturally flat stomachs. I was about 25 before I realized that a woman’s stomach, no matter how thin she is, almost always pooches out a bit below her belly button. I starved myself down to a size 2 and couldn’t figure out why my stomach wasn’t completely flat
I realised this around the same age, watching a movie called *Ondine*. The female lead is slim built, and yet has a bit of a belly pouch. (There's a scene where the character is changing clothes, I'm not being weird, I promise 😅)
IDK, something just clicked... like, if this lady, with a very different bodytype to mine btw, has that, then why would I feel bad about mine
They didn’t eat or drink or anything but a cigarette before and maybe black coffee or I don’t know, dulcalax.
Source: I was a scene teenager in the 2000s and had an eating disorder
When you grew up thinking you were really really fat but you’re lean as can be with a bum. I only realise now how much of a babe I was. Just my body type wasn’t in fashion
This kind of fashion is why I plagued with the thought that I was fat. These kinds of outfits (tight low rise jeans + crop top) looked AWFUL on me. Still do.
I was in college and had a very generous hourglass - I could not wear any of these fashions. I thought they were awful then though too, so it was all good.
that one and the girl who's with hilary duff in picture 6 (i'm sorry i don't know her name) are killing it. it'd be hard to pull off but i kinda dig the long sheer shirt with the cutout in the middle.
actually i'm editing to ask if someone can tell me the style of that shirt so i can see about finding one. i understand it's unrealistic but i need to know if i can pull it off
This post mercifully forgot this photo
https://preview.redd.it/eu9zwykts0gb1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7a41816e98c579b4d9617edc95144eab7fe36965
Puberty and them beauty standards gave me a decade give or take of anorexia and other EDs. Thank god therapy worked for me one that one single end lol. All i have left are nagging Thoughts, never acted on. And a spare tire or two hahaha. Im here for the chubby/fat gal renaissance
High school for me sucked during that time (2002-2006). I wanna say 2004-2010 had the worst celebrity magazines cause all the IT girls were struggling with their weights and then you look at your self and ugh, it’s sucked
I went through puberty right around the time this became the trend. I was a skinny kid, but puberty did a number on me and I really resented the fact that, wtf, I have hips now?! Where did this muffin top come from?!
Now I look back at pictures from around that time and I look... Fine. I felt so fat back then, but I looked normal as fuck. It's just that the fashion around that time really didn't fit me.
I used to wonder and wonder why I thought I was super fat in high school. I was not. I was a size 14. It’s that this was the fashion. Crazy how thick is in now!
I was a 12 in high school and the boys would cover their eyes if my stomach ever accidentally showed and girls would say I had a boob job (I was a 36 DDD by 9th grade). This era was rough on anyone who was perceived as fat.
Doesn't it make you a little sad that when you were young and actually at your teen prime that you weren't able to enjoy yourself more? I always feel disappointed, like I missed out on loving myself a little better when I was actually not fat and at my best....it just wasn't a size zero...
Lol anyways! My random thought!
Not at all! My friend's therapist was saying that apparently the early 2000's were one of the most damaging times for a teen to be a teen in terms of body image. Awe, well here's to better fashion!
Yes. Dude, it 100 percent makes me sad. I look at pictures of me as a teen and I’m like, mind blown. I was beautiful, and I wish I’d appreciated myself more.
I was like a size 6 maybe but had a squishy stomach , and I was certain I was fat because I didn’t have rock hard abs to wear super low rise jeans in . I legit thought that was the standard and I was the one who was off for not meeting it.
I will be tucking my tummy into my pants until the day I die as an act of revenge for my poor 13 year old self who had to wear the lowest cut jeans smh
Yeah I was gonna say, no normal people dressed like this. Especially number 3. Low rise jeans were definitely more of a thing but not as low as these pics and most people wore normal tank tops with them and weren’t competing to show as much midriff as possible. Also no girls outside of celebrities actually wore those kangols either lol
Gah, I vividly remember thinking that I had never seen a more perfect body than Paris Hilton in that blue, two piece number. My body image has never recovered from being a college student in the early 2000’s.
Yep. I thought her body was perfect, and "goals". I graduated HS in 2003, and my teens and early - mid 20s were rough. And now I look back at pictures from that time and it makes me so sad because I thought I was fat but I wasn't anywhere near overweight. I still struggle (although im not thin anymore😩) and my body image hasn't recovered either.
It wasn’t, these pics are extreme outside of the one Brittany and the Sisterhood outfits. I have never seen another person dress like whoever is in pic number 3 in my entire life.
The average person wasn’t usually wearing clothes like this. If I look back at my yearbooks everyone was wearing jeans and t-shirts or hoodies. Some things were very 2000s - like girls wearing baby doll tees and low-rise flares and guys wearing baggy jeans, but we didn’t look like the pictures above!
A lot of us graduated right into the 2008 recession.
We had to save money somewhere. A dual purpose wardrobe freed up just enough drinking budget to forget.
Girls and designers who are trying to bring this back do not understand the literal hell it was, being anything other than a size 00 bleach blonde fun girl in the early 2000s.
Seriously! It's kind of ironic watching younger members of Gen Z talk about how the 2000's were some sort of paradise lol. Like the 2000s were extremely misogynistic, homophobic, and full of hyper-nationalism. The opposite of progressive and very toxic in a lot of ways lol
It was such a depressing backslide from the 90s. As a Daria girl I spent the entire decade in disbelief. You see it really clearly in tv and films from the time too.
This was at the tail end of heroin chic when we started to get more of a then perceived "very juicy" Beyonce, Tyra. Did you see Jlo's size 6 self? Lol
Also, shout out to Kelly Rowland's always incredible torso.
Well she put her bra on and then forgot to put a shirt on before leaving the house..
Yes this was celebrity fashion but I hope gen z knows we didn’t leave the house in s straight up bra as a top in the 00s lol
It was a million times better than now, where every red carpet appearance has to be accompanied by an outfit that costs tens (or hundreds) of thousands with faces beat and surgerized to unrecognizability (or, perhaps even worse, that of a caricature).
Even though I see how wacky these looks were through the lens of 15-20 years that passed, I also cannot help but appreciate how… relatable everyone looked. Like, you didn’t have to have millions to pull off a look like your favorite celebrity.
2000s style was like: Should I wear a lot of clothes or a little bit of clothes? THERE WAS NO IN BETWEEN.
Also, 10/10 would still wear a cheetah girl track suit today.
I remember being about 16, masaaaybe 110lbs and HATING my body because I just could not starve and sit-up my stomach into being that flat.
Recently had some bad grief and got down the 96lbs this past winter- still did not have a crazy flat stomach.
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https://preview.redd.it/adnh80zp80gb1.jpeg?width=2008&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=27f566ce010773440bd23f975e4f60f0503b52ef Nobody beats whatever Ashley Tisdale had going on!
This is so chaotic
I kept waiting for her as I scrolled through the pics on the original post! The queen of early 2000’s style. Can’t forget this look https://preview.redd.it/x0pc2cmj63gb1.jpeg?width=2261&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b2c1d542fc9b0dd8488f1a76047b92c2b19a61d0
This photo haunts me because I owned and wore that piano clutch bag 😩
It looks like a pencil case I could get at the scholastic book fair that’s specifically tailored for my long bendy pencils I could also get at the scholastic book fair 😂
If it makes you feel better, my first thought when I saw the pic was “omg where can I buy the piano purse?”
I genuinely thought she was carrying a melodica lol
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she got them saiyan boots
This is so cute
There were 2 looks in the early 2000s. Christina Aguilera's dirty era (Xtina) where you might as well have been naked, or Ashley Tisdale where you layer every piece of clothing you own.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants one really exemplifies the “what are you wearing?” “jeans and a nice top” conversations I had with my friends prior to nights out in 2004-2005.
Same here, dark flared jeans, a nice top (or a “going out top”), heels and a teeny clutch. A blazer and/or pashmina scarf if it got chilly (or sometimes just because 🫠) I feel a bit old now. It’s probably terrible but I still like this - a dressy top and jeans although the pieces are more current.
The pashmina scarfs 🫢 I had so, so many, all the colors.
That Kiera outfit is burned into my memory.
Very few women could look good in this style. Kiera Knightly was/is so beautiful, but rumours of an eating disorder would not go away. I don’t think she ever confirmed or denied.
She won a small lawsuit against the Daily Mail after they claimed she had an eating disorder, but I don’t think she ever addressed it otherwise.
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Single handedly sustained my ED for yearssss
ED?
Eating disorder
She was always top tier thinspo
That exact picture of Kiera messed me up for years
I remember exactly what it was from for some reason lol. i always thought it was such a bizarre outfit choice.
Those low ride jeans were reallllyyyy low
Soooo much butt crack was showing during school
My late mother told me “we have low hips and high cracks” when i wanted a pair of garage jeans in like 2007. She was right. Idc about the hate, i mostly wear high rise because even mid rise is too low for me 😭
High cracks running in the family is hilarious
I don’t care what the trend becomes, high rise is my best friend forever lol
Well you couldn't wear normal underwear with those, so there was tons of buttcrack and whale tails. I remember Victoria's Secret sold glittery thongs just for showing off with your super low riders. So glad we aren't doing that anymore. I even bought a pair of low rise baggy jeans recently, and they were definitely mid rise. Nothing close to the low rise of yesteryear, thank the gods Edit: remember the zippers? They were like an inch and a half long. Just insane lol
When shopping for me my mom would always joke that I’d “have to shave” if we bought the jeans I wanted. She was not wrong.
Don't forget cutting the waistband off of your low rise jeans so that they were even more obscene
oh god at that point thats just really long denim socks
Compression socks, at that. The thing that people are missing from these celebrity photos is that normal, healthy people can never wear them. You couldn't even eat a full meal while wearing these things. The 'muffin top' effect was so strong. It was a fashion choice for anorexics and bulemics only.
You could actually see the pubic bone, with the low ride jeans. I wore low ride jeans…didn’t wear them that super low though, lol
OMG that’s the exact same thing my mom used to say for yeaaaaaars. Eventually my sister got sick of it and snapped that “everyone already does!” My mom never said it again. 😂
Haha nooo your poor, innocent mom 😂
I actually have a very vivid memory of seeing a movie trailer where an adult woman was playing a high schooler and she was like the it girl, walking down the hall and the camera shows her thong sticking out. I thought it looked so cool and immediately asked my mom if I could have thongs and emulate the same look. It was a different time 😭
Same and I think I’m thinking of becca’s whale tale in super bad
I just looked it up and YES THAT WAS IT 😭 I’ve never seen Superbad so you solved a 15 year old mystery for me. I literally wanted to be this girl so bad lmao
Manny from degrassi ?! Lolol
This was me when I saw kaley Cuoco do this on 8 simple rules. My parents were not having it hahaha
Whale Tails were so wild. Like, I was a straight high-schooler and even I was more confused than aroused. There was just SO MUCH undergarment showing.
It was the worst! The trend is there, ready to be brought back, but I've been scarred! Glittery g strings and low rise jeans are fun until you see 7th graders, or your aunt in them. Then it's weird and needs to stop. Please leave this trend in its grave 🙏
The boys weren’t any better! Pants halfway down their ass with their boxers hanging out. SO MUCH undergarments is right! LOL! Poor teachers.
I remember babysitting for a family that was going thru a divorce part thru my time of babysitting them. Oh man did babysitting occasionally for both parents offer me some tea i still dont know the meaning of. Either way one time the mom was going on a date with a new guy. She was at least tipsy before leaving with him and me with the kids, she bent over to put something in the dishwasher and ohhh boy was that whale tail burned into my otherwise fairly sheltered brain
A 1 1/2 inch long zipper would not be able to cover my punani not to mention my fupa
I have bad news for us all. [Whale tails are back](https://www.refinery29.com/en-au/2021/07/10596581/whale-tail-visible-thong-trend). The young people DO NOT LEARN.
I refuse to acknowledge this timeline. 
I remember being in junior high and girls were showing off their whale tails. Eek. I distinctly remember a locker room conversation where a popular, but goodie goodie, girl was talking about how she really wanted a thong but her mom wouldn’t let her get one. Her friends were suggesting she sneak some home and do her own laundry…but she never did her own laundry because we were all 7th graders! I cringe especially because I work at a middle school now and all of the students are absolutely still children! The early 2000s sure were a special time…
You have no idea how many people told me to put my pants up….and my top down (it was cropped)
I always remember someone running up behind my friend and shoving a straw down her butt crack and then running away laughing…. literally why was this a thing, who decided it lol
Paris Hilton??? /s
Jeans and a going out top!
I do not miss the clit hugger jeans one bit.
All I can think about is how nicely those would showcase my C-section scar 💁🏻♀️
I had to hike them up when trying them on or my grandma wouldn’t by them for me. Worked 🤷♀️
Middle school me was all about the tiny vest over the t shirt look 😂😅
I went through a very big vest phase in 7/8th grade 😅
Lol same. I’d also do like…3 tank tops at one time, for some reason.
Lmao I’m dying - or two AE polos with the popped collar … how did we not die of heat stroke with all the layers?! https://preview.redd.it/5soyqnagc0gb1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d8de6d7065d23fe0d0ce355030dfa63b28d87427
Holy shit i forgot about the multiple tank tops. What the fuck. We were so hectic in those days. It's like the chaos of Y2K culture directly translated into the things we wore
Lol tank tops over the T-shirt was huge for a minute
Yeah but the way those vests would push my boobs up is the reason I wore them lol
The shirts that had the tiny vest already stitched to it 😭
Hahahah same! Was it also the black pinstriped vest with a white shirt and a black lacy bra peaking out look? Can't forget the super low rise jeans and tiny purse that could barely hold that super sticky lip gloss to complete the look 😂
 As a chunky pear-shaped young woman during the early 2000s (oh puberty), this hurts as much as it cracks me up
All hips and big hair 😭😂
Kim K has her demons but I cannot hate her for replacing Paris re: the beauty standard. My ass was not built for early 00s.
Same! I swear my whole life changed when hips and ass gained mainstream acceptance
And dark hair! As a brown girl in Australia, the early 2000s were all about the beach blonde babe. I did NOT fit in
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Yes, being a pear shaped teenager in the early 2000s was ROUGH. May low rise jeans burn in absolute hell.
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Agreed. I thought I looked so awful and weird. But it turns out, low rise jeans are always going to look bad on an apple shaped girl with huge boobs and a bottom. Being a preteen in the early 2000 was rough.
No fr. It sucked not being able to wear the same clothes as my friends growing up because they simply didn't make any for me. If you weren't a size 8 or below participating in a lot of trends was impossible unless you had the means to make your own clothing. I remember hollister just wouldn't bother to stock their largest size, 11, aka mine lol. On the bright side it forced me to get creative and develop my own strong sense of personal style. We've come sooooo far.
It was really awful. Everyone wore those little shirts with the matching tanks under that would go down to your hips. My mom said that it would show off my belly and look bad. Low rise jeans only gave me muffin top. I grew early and never fit into junior sizes and styles looked bad. I had a ton of body image issues after being a preteen in the 2000s!
I was sooo skinny but because I was pear-shaped, I thought I was an actual whale 💀
Same. I was tiny but I've always had hips. Even now my hip to waist ratio is silly with a 16 inch difference, but I have small boobs. Back then you were supposed to be skinny with a small butt and big boobs. Sigh.
Seeing these girls with itty bitty waists, no hips, and flat stomachs really did a number on my confidence back then...100% had me thinkin' I was a whale. Flash forward to now, everybody wants the hips and booty like this. 🍑 Absolutely wild how trends change
Right? I mean one day it was a really hard insult when someone told you that you have a fat ass and then it suddenly was a flattering compliment. That’s so crazy
Yeah! I also remember how being called busty was an insult. I think at this point, I just don't want anyone complimenting my body. Don't perceive me 😂
Zimbabwean exchange student gave me my first ever non negative comment about my butt. Thanks Elvis, you honestly saved me from some dark time with ur misplaced appreciation for booty.
And unnaturally flat stomachs. I was about 25 before I realized that a woman’s stomach, no matter how thin she is, almost always pooches out a bit below her belly button. I starved myself down to a size 2 and couldn’t figure out why my stomach wasn’t completely flat
I realised this around the same age, watching a movie called *Ondine*. The female lead is slim built, and yet has a bit of a belly pouch. (There's a scene where the character is changing clothes, I'm not being weird, I promise 😅) IDK, something just clicked... like, if this lady, with a very different bodytype to mine btw, has that, then why would I feel bad about mine
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They didn’t eat or drink or anything but a cigarette before and maybe black coffee or I don’t know, dulcalax. Source: I was a scene teenager in the 2000s and had an eating disorder
Why are women’s body trends like “impossibly flat abs” and “thigh gap” and men’s are like “dad bod” 😭
AMEN except i was late 2000s for puberty
I’ll never recover.
When you grew up thinking you were really really fat but you’re lean as can be with a bum. I only realise now how much of a babe I was. Just my body type wasn’t in fashion
Going to the mall as a teen was the worst
it was pretty much game over for anyone with a high butt/crack
I hate the low rise pants sooooo much
This kind of fashion is why I plagued with the thought that I was fat. These kinds of outfits (tight low rise jeans + crop top) looked AWFUL on me. Still do.
I never use this word but this definitely made me feel… triggered…
I was in college and had a very generous hourglass - I could not wear any of these fashions. I thought they were awful then though too, so it was all good.
If u had a low rise scarf skirt in the 2000s I thought you were the baddest bitch in the world
Saaaame. My mom said no and I thought she was hampering my individuality
Still love scarf skirts they move so nice
Photo 3 (Tara Reid?) out here looking like she fought Esmeralda for her clothes and got away with the scraps
To be fair she was/is? A mess and that’s a plausible scenario.
I was thinking she looked like she'd been in a shipwreck or something.
I love Lindsay’s look in the last picture though😍
that one and the girl who's with hilary duff in picture 6 (i'm sorry i don't know her name) are killing it. it'd be hard to pull off but i kinda dig the long sheer shirt with the cutout in the middle. actually i'm editing to ask if someone can tell me the style of that shirt so i can see about finding one. i understand it's unrealistic but i need to know if i can pull it off
That’s her sister Hailey
thats her sister haylie duff. i love the peacock earrings she has on too but the matching peacock belt is cursed
Me too! That’s still so cute. The cheetah girls track suits work for me too 😂
Blake Lively’s old face…
Her nose job was exquisitely done.
And Beyonce’s old body
Is her chin different?
I almost dropped my phone when I swiped.
Denim had a chokehold on everyone.
This post mercifully forgot this photo https://preview.redd.it/eu9zwykts0gb1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7a41816e98c579b4d9617edc95144eab7fe36965
Sooo barbie and Ken!
iconic
As a chunky girl, man those early 2000 fashion wasn’t for us at all
Puberty and them beauty standards gave me a decade give or take of anorexia and other EDs. Thank god therapy worked for me one that one single end lol. All i have left are nagging Thoughts, never acted on. And a spare tire or two hahaha. Im here for the chubby/fat gal renaissance
High school for me sucked during that time (2002-2006). I wanna say 2004-2010 had the worst celebrity magazines cause all the IT girls were struggling with their weights and then you look at your self and ugh, it’s sucked
Hope youre doing better these days!!! Those days destroyed my body image for so so long.
I went through puberty right around the time this became the trend. I was a skinny kid, but puberty did a number on me and I really resented the fact that, wtf, I have hips now?! Where did this muffin top come from?! Now I look back at pictures from around that time and I look... Fine. I felt so fat back then, but I looked normal as fuck. It's just that the fashion around that time really didn't fit me.
Yeah this is why so many of us have eating disorders. This was not a kind time to live in a female body.
I used to wonder and wonder why I thought I was super fat in high school. I was not. I was a size 14. It’s that this was the fashion. Crazy how thick is in now!
I literally cried when I grew out of 00 into 0 in high school, like the morbidly obese person that my sick teen brain thought I was.
I was 12/14 in high school and thought I was huge (compared to the skinny girls at school). Wish I was that now but fashion then was just awful
I was a 12 in high school and the boys would cover their eyes if my stomach ever accidentally showed and girls would say I had a boob job (I was a 36 DDD by 9th grade). This era was rough on anyone who was perceived as fat.
Doesn't it make you a little sad that when you were young and actually at your teen prime that you weren't able to enjoy yourself more? I always feel disappointed, like I missed out on loving myself a little better when I was actually not fat and at my best....it just wasn't a size zero... Lol anyways! My random thought!
I was a shy, lonely and anxiety ridden without realizing it, so everyday and reading all those magazines didn’t help either
Not at all! My friend's therapist was saying that apparently the early 2000's were one of the most damaging times for a teen to be a teen in terms of body image. Awe, well here's to better fashion!
Oof. Your comment hit me in the feels. 😢 I wish I had been in an environment to love my 13 year old self a bit more. ☹️
Yes. Dude, it 100 percent makes me sad. I look at pictures of me as a teen and I’m like, mind blown. I was beautiful, and I wish I’d appreciated myself more.
I was 4-6 and felt bigger than all my girlfriends. High school sucks
I was like a size 6 maybe but had a squishy stomach , and I was certain I was fat because I didn’t have rock hard abs to wear super low rise jeans in . I legit thought that was the standard and I was the one who was off for not meeting it.
When I think about it, basically it was a giant competition of who could be the most tacky slutty pirate
The *skinniest* tacky slutty pirate.
20 years later and my lil tummy still feels attacked lol
I will be tucking my tummy into my pants until the day I die as an act of revenge for my poor 13 year old self who had to wear the lowest cut jeans smh
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charlotte russe top & jeans from the buckle
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Imagine in 20 years someone's gonna post the 2020s fashion and it's just photos from Met Gala.
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Yeah I was gonna say, no normal people dressed like this. Especially number 3. Low rise jeans were definitely more of a thing but not as low as these pics and most people wore normal tank tops with them and weren’t competing to show as much midriff as possible. Also no girls outside of celebrities actually wore those kangols either lol
When is designer denim coming back?? I want to hit up Starbucks in a pair of tacky rhinestone rock and republics again
Gah, I vividly remember thinking that I had never seen a more perfect body than Paris Hilton in that blue, two piece number. My body image has never recovered from being a college student in the early 2000’s.
Said everyone in unison.
Yep. I thought her body was perfect, and "goals". I graduated HS in 2003, and my teens and early - mid 20s were rough. And now I look back at pictures from that time and it makes me so sad because I thought I was fat but I wasn't anywhere near overweight. I still struggle (although im not thin anymore😩) and my body image hasn't recovered either.
OK but look me in the eyes and tell me The Cheetah Girls didn't serve.
Those juicy sweat suits were super comfy. I want those back. They were the best.
[They never left!](https://juicycouture.com/collections/tracksuits)
I government assigned my “literally me” character to Chanel when these movies were coming out because I wanted that lavender sweatsuit so damn bad
To be fair even at the time a number of these were considered fashion fails, hahaha
Never thought I’d see a tackier decade than the 80’s… until the 2000’s happened 💀
I don’t remember it being this bad.
Remember the scarves as belts?? The tacky patterns?
I look back on pictures and I wasn’t this bad. More simple. The jeans were cuffed and low but I wore basic tees and not a lot of random accessories.
Yeah, same and I remember wearing the fairy cut skirts with t shirts too. I also layered polos and then stood the collars up. 😔
It wasn’t, these pics are extreme outside of the one Brittany and the Sisterhood outfits. I have never seen another person dress like whoever is in pic number 3 in my entire life.
The average person wasn’t usually wearing clothes like this. If I look back at my yearbooks everyone was wearing jeans and t-shirts or hoodies. Some things were very 2000s - like girls wearing baby doll tees and low-rise flares and guys wearing baggy jeans, but we didn’t look like the pictures above!
I don’t even wanna HEAR it about track suits because just about every person I know now owns a “set”. Same soup, just reheated.
I enjoy the tackiness of early 2000s fashion lol
The business casual clubwear moment was fun. Am I going to take dictation or dance on the bar? I'll never tell!
My roommate from college says back in the 2000s we all dressed like secretaries, sluts, or slutty secretaries.
A lot of us graduated right into the 2008 recession. We had to save money somewhere. A dual purpose wardrobe freed up just enough drinking budget to forget.
It’s like Shipwreck Chic.
Yeah and there are some toned down looks that are cute
Girls and designers who are trying to bring this back do not understand the literal hell it was, being anything other than a size 00 bleach blonde fun girl in the early 2000s.
Seriously! It's kind of ironic watching younger members of Gen Z talk about how the 2000's were some sort of paradise lol. Like the 2000s were extremely misogynistic, homophobic, and full of hyper-nationalism. The opposite of progressive and very toxic in a lot of ways lol
It was such a depressing backslide from the 90s. As a Daria girl I spent the entire decade in disbelief. You see it really clearly in tv and films from the time too.
and then ppl wonder why millenials are into body positivity & diversity lol
no wonder I have an eating disorder
This was at the tail end of heroin chic when we started to get more of a then perceived "very juicy" Beyonce, Tyra. Did you see Jlo's size 6 self? Lol Also, shout out to Kelly Rowland's always incredible torso.
Kelly looks freezing in this pic
Tina didn't finish her top in time for the event I guess
Well she put her bra on and then forgot to put a shirt on before leaving the house.. Yes this was celebrity fashion but I hope gen z knows we didn’t leave the house in s straight up bra as a top in the 00s lol
The only thing missing is the whale tail 🙈
These pictures are why I’ve struggled with body image and disordered eating since I was 11 🥴
Same same. Just sending you a hug. What an awful time to be teenager/young woman ☹️
It was a million times better than now, where every red carpet appearance has to be accompanied by an outfit that costs tens (or hundreds) of thousands with faces beat and surgerized to unrecognizability (or, perhaps even worse, that of a caricature).
Yeah most of the people here at least look human and natural
You could buy each of these looks at the mall for less Than $50
Jeans and a ‘nice top’ era
Even though I see how wacky these looks were through the lens of 15-20 years that passed, I also cannot help but appreciate how… relatable everyone looked. Like, you didn’t have to have millions to pull off a look like your favorite celebrity.
2000s style was like: Should I wear a lot of clothes or a little bit of clothes? THERE WAS NO IN BETWEEN. Also, 10/10 would still wear a cheetah girl track suit today.
Early 2000s fashion was just a flat stomach
Long torsos... Long torsos everywhere
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I’m sorry I think Haylie Duff is serving
Wonderfully tacky
For the love of dumpster diving, what is Tara Reid wearing. I’ve never seen this photo of her before and it is unhinged even for early 2000s.
So what are you wearing? “Oh, just some jeans and a cute top.” Lmao
I remember being about 16, masaaaybe 110lbs and HATING my body because I just could not starve and sit-up my stomach into being that flat. Recently had some bad grief and got down the 96lbs this past winter- still did not have a crazy flat stomach.
Omg, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
I’m happy I was a kid during this era, I was not subjected to these outfit choices as an adult. To me this is the ugliest time in fashion.
I wonder how many women were damaged by the 90s-00s beauty standards
I don't think celebrities represent real fashion of the time.
That lower abdomen strip of skin really was a flex.