“I cut my own bangs. I was also really afraid of blinking during the photoshoot for some reason.”
“When I was 16, I worked part-time in a store with all kinds of musical merchandise. But it seems that I spent more than I earned there.”
“Control yourself, ladies! This handsome guy is already taken.”
“My sister and I wore these T-shirts in middle school. Yes, we also used to cut our own hair.”
“If you think I’m ugly wait until you see my identical twin...”
“It’s the year 1995. I’m 8 years old, but I look like a middle-aged librarian.”
“My boyfriend was a rebel in the 10th grade. His mom cried when she received this school picture.”
“My friend and I did a photoshoot to convince random people on the internet that we were in a cool band. We had no interest in actually being in a band.”
“My friends refer to this picture as the ‘Water Demon.’ And this photo is everything you need to know about my school years.”
“I was told to act natural.”
“I’m 14 in this photo. I made my mom take this picture, and then I didn’t hesitate to take the film for printing and put this photo in our family album.”
“I refused to accept that long hair didn’t suit me.”
“This was my first recital. And I truly loved the fringe and sequins.”
"My mom found a photo where I’m 18. All I could say was, “Oh my God, what is that creature?”
“We lived near a ski resort. The more you skied, the cooler you were considered. As you can imagine, I was the coolest girl in school.”
“I graduated from high school in 2009, but it seems I took my prom too seriously.”
“4 years of hair blunders!”
“I’m 8 or 9 years old, and I’m playing the role of Marie Antoinette. And yes, I’m a guy.”
“I’m 6 years old here, but I look like a 40-year-old accountant.”
"After almost 20 years...I’m finally ready to show the world what I did to my eyebrows when I was 12."
"I won a free photo shoot at J.C Penney in 2001 but I refused to take my dad sunglasses off."
"First day of 5th grade, looking like I walked out of a Limited Too catalog"
"9 year old me wanted to be hard"
"My best friend and I (right) in 2004 having a photo op after shooting our first Back Street Boys music video. We’re both girls."
"Was I a student or homeroom mom? Sixth grade was cruel."
"Somehow I looked like a sad middle-aged librarian when I was 12."
"My first day of school as an exchange student in Japan, 2003. I’m not sure if the haircut or the knee-high socks are worse."
"Vroom vroom! There's a new bad boy in town ;)"
"Me at 14 years of age in 2003. Another school photo. Also I am a girl. The white golf shirt is a school uniform."
"I think i was the youngest loan shark in history."
"Just a Barbie girl in a Barbie world. Me sometime in 1998."
"It was my 10th birthday, December 1992, and my Glamour Shots™ dreams came true... Obviously my dream-bar was set pretty low"
"I'm not gonna lie, I thought I looked cool as hell in this picture. As someone who regularly dressed like a slob and didnt care about my appearance too much, this picture helped my self esteem a lot lol"
"I can't tell you what trends I was following, but I certainly left the house dressed like this for far too long"
"Needless to say, I pretty much peaked in 2nd grade. Circa 2001"
"Me at age 13, posing in front of my grandma"