My husband knew Kevin McHale from Glee when he was a kid. Condoleezza Rice. What was it a drawing of exactly? A rarity at that school. She was also in marching band for a brief time before becoming the school's mascot, which she bonded with fellow band nerd Jimmy Kimmel over. 13. They were at the very beginning of their respective careers and both extremely nice, fun people; many of us were extras in the movie and had a lot of casual interaction with the cast. Apparently, thats not true, or at least isnt true according to Reddit There are these backstory rumors that say she was so into Harry Potter she wore glasses to look like him, but both my partner and sister are like, 'No that's bulls*it.' ", The actress plays a cool blondeon Showtime's Billions, but she has said that wasn't the case in high school. This just cannot be said about PJ. I didn't really know her well but one of my best friends was really close with her. Im really glad to see him succeed as much as he has and wish him all the best in his career (which we will watch with great interest). What Im saying is, hes quite shy, said Wainright. She was pretty cool. Had a few classes with her throughout 3 years. Lady Gaga was bullied a lot while she was in high school. He absolutely adores her father. 32 Celebrities Who Dropped Out of School - Celebrity Dropouts 1 A Splash of Excess in a Tasteful Fashion Week 2 Hayley Williams Is Our March 2023 Music Director 3 Why We're All Obsessed With. It's not just enough for Margot Robbie to be extremely beautiful, but she has to have a relatable backstory of her as a teenager, too. Also Bhad Bhabie showed us her new nipple piercings in 6th grade. Take it from these celebrities, who fearlessly laughed (or hid in shame) in the face of school . But of course,there are some celebrities that we consider sweethearts, who have always been down to earth, friendly, with no one to say a bad word about them. Taylor Swift claims that she was never popular in school and that no one really liked her. Spent his time in the drama department, and was a nice guy from every memory I have. 21. Jake said he was a nerd as a young teenager, saying people treated him a "certain way" based on his thick glasses. The title of her autobiography, "Quiet Strength," should be some indication of her personality and the obituaries written about her after her death mostly "recalled her as soft-spoken, sweet, and small in stature," according to author Susan Cain. I knew that me andMindy Kalinghad pretty similar times growing up. Getty Images. She was in the same grade as me. ETA: Her family was also loaded. I know a lot of people who were in classes with her, and my sister was in the grade above her. Christian Bale. Selena said of her time in school, "If my cousin wasnt the captain of the cheerleading team, I would have been destroyed. You are also agreeing to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Hes a bit like the Wizard of Oz. It's weird enough to think that celebrities were once normal people in high school, but it's even weirder to think that two celebrities went to the same high school. While some, like famed rapper Pitbull, have opened charter schools in their home communities, others, like actress Angelina Jolie, have founded schools in disadvantaged communities overseas. "I'd eat my lunch in the nurses' office so I didn't have to sit with the other girls," she has said. And obviously, he was. I went to high school with Hayden Christensen before he was in Star Wars. He joked that he didn't talk to a girl until he was 19 and also told the story of a boy who invited him to his birthday party because his mom told him to. I wasn't the popular one,"theformer Mrs. BenAfflecktold The Mirror. One Redditor has said - "My sister's best friend's mom went to high school with Tom Cruise in NJ. They said she was a total jerk all through high school and was Ms. Popular Cheerleader. Unlike many, who consider dyslexia a curse, Branson calls it his "greatest strength.". That's how I got over being shy. Even Elton John is quoted as saying, I was quite an overweight young man and very shy That shyness carried along with me until the early nineties when I got sober.". He wasnt ever around because he already had a bunch of contracts and was already traveling. She also recalled that she always tried to be in the musicals, and always ended up being some kind of beggar or homeless person in the background. Then my friend would incite the crowd to be like, 'Look at that idiot!' Our teacher showed us the videos he made there. It was dog poop. 8 Jerk - Tom Cruise Was A Liar. He was also a good student and didn't bring attention to himself.. Diane Clehane is a New York-based journalist and author of Imagining Diana and Diana: The Secrets of Her Style. One Redditor has said I went to high school with Natalie Portman. She went to my ballet school briefly and her family was friends with one of my best friends family growing up, so I was around her a good bit. We werent friends ourselves, but she was friends with a lot of people I was friends in. However, according to Reddit, the reason no one liked Swift was very simple: she was just not a nice person. 26. Turns out it was teen angst, not bad boyfriends, that first inspiredthe Grammy winner. The stunning actress Blake Lively seems like a nice person so were not surprised to learn that she was also known among her classmates as a nice and down to earth girl. She was absolutely gorgeous then and now. Was kinda cocky as a result though because he KNEW he was hot stuff. However, according to Reddit, Cruise was actually very weird in school and lied all the time. 29. Whatever the case, his sense of humor got him somewhere at least. Also one day he saw her crying on the bus because people were calling Britney a slut. I've done everything I can to avoid it.". Bestlifeonline.com is part of the Meredith Health Group. Some of them are easy enough to believe, but there are others that are a huge surprise. The actor was born in 1949 in . He was diligent in primary school, but everything went wrong when he got older: girls, marijuana, and crazy parties with alcohol. Hayek didn't get off to such a great start, however. Apparently, she was actually a huge bully who played up the whole "rich girl" persona. "I wore really nerdy glasses and the boys didn't like me. After seeing Brad in all his attractive dad glory, it's hard to imagine him as a totally immature (yet still pretty good-looking) high school kid. From Kindergarten to about halfway through 5th grade, I suffered from selective mutism in school, mixed with severe depression." "Part way through 5th grade I started . And you can see why while at the beginning of his singing career he seemed extremely lovable, with time he turned into a huge jerk who has complete disregard and lack of respect for his fans. 30 Wildly Entertaining Photos of Celebrities Using Public Transportation. So it comes as no surprise that Pratt was just as sweet in high school as he is now. Since then, he has made something of a reputation for himself by being shy. Some girl was always crying over something she did., Another Redditor added I know someone who was horribly bullied by Demi Lovato in middle school for being a lesbian. Some people who went to high school withMargot said that she was just 'kind of' popular, but not too popular. 10. 31. She was cool, although very annoyed at me since I bugged her alot in elementary school. 12. "Same. Demi Lovato was both a . Dannii Minogue was just lovely.. She was always slender build, athletic. We hold major institutions accountable and expose wrongdoing. 1. I went to high school with Wayne Sermon, guitar player for Imagine Dragons. He rode the bus with Jamie Lynn because they both lived in Kentwood,La, but went to school in Mississippi. That's right, young Zach would go deep into the wilderness to go camping and he probably knows how to tie several different kinds of knots. Jones has said that she was a "straight up nerd" growing up. My grandma went to the same high school as James Dean. Ryan has spoken about not feeling like he looked manly growing up and has said he didn't know how to talk to girls. On the surface, he seems pretty down to earth if a little obnoxious. I would trust him if we were stranded in a forest somewhere together. "I dont think people are aware of how shy he is. The most memorable thing though, is I had her dad as my art teacher for a semester when I was a sophomore. Don't get me wrong, teen Jennifer has a face that says she'll face stardom one day, but her overall looks say something else. Levine describes his teenage self as "very uncool" because he had "disgusting long hair and shorts down to [to my knees], cutoff shortsI desperately wanted to be Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam really badly, and I was just a nerdy, awkward kid and I was obsessed with music." He really thinks all the girls want him.. Nice guy. Nonsense. xhr.send(payload); It got around to her parents, who are super religious, and she got out into one of those conversion therapy camps for teenagers. Kylie Jenner was a couple grades above me at a k-12 school we attended in SoCal. However, according to Reddit, Cruise was actually very weird in school and lied all the time. 19. Janel said she was bullied in high school, as she was "not the popular girl at all" and preferred musical theater rehearsal to going to the mall. I was somewhere in between." } ); When we look at worldwide famous celebrities today, it's hard for us to imagine that they too were once completely normal, ordinary human beings that went to school, did their homework, got bullied and got into trouble. If only this. Im a born nerd. She also locked my friend in a locker. Founded in 2010, Thought Catalog is owned and operated by The Thought & Expression Company, Inc. For over a decade, we've been at the bleeding edge of media, pioneering an infrastructure for creatives to flourish both artistically and financially. My aunt has run into him a few times when he's been back home and he's always been really nice. I went to high school with Emily Ratajkowski. I was a dorky, quiet kid in high school who didn't have too many friends. Especially with her "Little Monsters" campaign orchestrated by PR talent Troy Carter, Lady GaGa has walked the delicate balance of trying to maintain an "everywoman" image while also rising to "Artpop" levels, by wearing Alexander McQueen dresses and emerging from eggs. They were SO good and had such an amazing rhythm as a team. navigator.sendBeacon('https://www.google-analytics.com/collect', payload); But the evidence is in this dad's yearbook. Although known for actively standing up -- or perhaps remaining seated -- for equal rights in 1955, and subsequently becoming a key figure of the Civil Rights movement, Parks was not an outspoken woman. The Pitch Perfect actress has described her high school self as a "flat chested theater nerd." Ill always have respect for him because he was always on the grind and trying to get money to support his family. She's also spoken about being bullied while on Wizards of Waverly Place, calling Disney Channel "the biggest high school in the world.". They even remember a time when they saw her years later and she smiled at them, and then flipped them off for no reason. 38. While being in school with him sounds like a good time, it might have been a little difficult to get any real work done. What was it a drawing of exactly? On radio show Real Late With Rosenberg, Pete saidthat people used to pick on him in high school because he would act out due to the death of his father. It was in San Francisco, I was 17 and she was 16, we shared a bunk bed and dorm room. 5. In this picture we can see that she is still quite pretty, but has that dorky, quirky look of a low-key nerd in high school. I was a geeky little guy, but she always was genuine and nice to me. Kutcher has been a sweetheart ever since he was young and thankfully fame has not changed him. All those impressions were good practice for when he finally got to the real deal. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP; Charles Sykes/Invision/AP; Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP. Back in the 80s, Depp hated being a teen idol so intensely that he shaved his eyebrows just to make himself uglier and less photogenic for teen-adoring magazines (Fun fact: Years later, Depp would . And for more amazing A-lister trivia, check out20 Celebrities Who Look Like Their Pets. I have some friends who went to high school with Taylor Swift. The star of films like "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "Roman Holiday" thought of herself as being on the shy side and appreciated the natural world, despite her Hollywood fame. He used to wear a football helmet around for his stunt work or something like that. He was a jerk to me during classes and he claims to have had a terrible high school experience because he got bullied or something. Later on, Gosling ended up being home-schooled for a year which kind of changed his personality. Didnt really talk to her much but she was always very outgoing and artistic so its not a surprise that she became what she is now. Yet, if you look at certain Reddit threads or browse the internet, youll learn some interesting facts that are sure to shock you and perhaps even change your opinion about a certain celebrity. And those cheekbones aren't able to cut someone up for nothing. Reddit user @drowsydeku recalls that his dad has a fun drawing made by the legendary Brad Pitt himself. There were also announcements that if people were moved by the Spirit to jump up and down, they shouldn't do that in the nearly 100-year-old balcony. Hollywood's honor roll used to be on a different honor roll entirely. After that I would always hum and sing the songs and dress up as Snow White. 46. "In college, I would push an overhead projector across campus with my pants just low enough to show my butt. Even though Drake is like a super famous person, I feel like in real life he's a down to Earth guy, but at the same time, is on a totally different planet. 9 Anna Kendrick Part of HuffPost Wellness. She was later homeschooled. Love you, Pri! ", 2022 Galvanized Media. Scott Halleran / Getty . Nothing too revelatory here, but he says Sandler was pretty much like he acted later on in his movies. Astronaut. I dont mean to sound snarky, it really is a weird house. You don't get much nerdier than that. 17. And since sweet people are often the target of bullies, none of us found it surprising when Colfer revealed that he was bullied in school. Despite being the 16th President of the U.S. and a towering figure that presided over the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was a great communicator who simultaneously didn't offend by superiority," as Ralph Waldo Emerson put it. While Lady GaGa embodies extravagance as a performer, moments such as her pre-fame appearance on MTV's "Boiling Points" show that the woman behind the name, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, is a pretty normal human. I was on the wrestling team with Rachel Brosnahan. She said he was very sweet and kind of shy. Branson still considers himself a natural introvert and has said, "I had to train myself into becoming more of an extrovert. I was in tears one day because I couldn't sit next to her.". "I was a geek, I was into musical theater, which isn't perceived as the coolest thing. But once graduation happened he was done with everyone and ignored them when they tried to say hi.". For example, Redditor@herdana goes to the same high school that Ariana used to go to, and some people she knew didn't have a lot of nice things to say. Getty/Joe Corrigan, Frederick M. Brown Ever wonder what celebrities were like when they were just normal, awkward teenagers? The Postal Service is not done making changes to your mail, including how much you're paying. I always feel shy in the Hollywood scene. I was not cool.". Margot Robbie Tried Looking Like Harry Potter, Jennifer Anniston Made Some Fashion Choices. He has managed to keep up withhis love ofgame all this time and even had a Dungeons and Dragons cake for his 48th birthday. Rashida told Playboy, I came out of the womb reading books and thinking about my next project. F*** Demi.". 41. My dad went to school with Vanilla Ice, he said he was nice. Friends such as actress Angie Dickinson recalled, its amazing, with all of his success and [being] one of the most recognizable men in the world, he was very shy about it., In 1977, Johnny Carson agreed to sit down with "60 Minutes" correspondent Mike Wallace for a rare interview, in which Wallace was finally able to ask Carson about his notorious shyness and whether he felt it was accurate. Mariah Carey. She was beautiful and confident and extra and she LOVED herself. That's pretty extreme, even for a joke. I feel like as far as famous people go, it's the funny ones that usually have a more relatable backstory than some of the more glamorous types. 45. 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