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The 50 Best Celebrity Yearbook Photos

How far they've come.

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But for better or worse, high school is when you start to develop a sense of personal style and create memories that will either last a lifetime or you lock away in some emotional box deep within your inner psyche. For a lot of celebrities, the glamorous and high-exposure lives they lead today are a far, far cry from how they appeared back in the day.

We took a journey back in time to scope out what these musicians, actors, politicians, and athletes looked like before the plastic surgery and professional stylists. We also found out what they were voted "Most Likely To" by their classmates, some of which hit the nail on the head, and others were completely off the mark. Don't feel bad about your janky high school steez, cause these are The Best Celebrity Yearbook Photos.

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50. Eminem

School: Lincoln High School, 1986-1989
Most Likely To: Get his ass kicked because of this photo, and then rap about it.

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49. Jeremy Lin

School: Palo Alto High School, 2002-2006
Most Likely To: Bring hope to thousands of New Yorkers, then become a symbol of the Knicks' mismanagement.

48. James Franco

School: Palo Alto High School, 1992-1996
Most Likely To: Use this photo in some sort of performance art piece.

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47. Zac Efron

School: Arroyo Grande High School, 2002-2006
Most Likely To: Ditch the lame collar-over-sweater look and the "Bieber sweep" for dope laid-back Cali waviness.

46. Usher

School: Haynes Bridge Middle School, 1985-1992
Most Likely To: Fucking crush it with the ladies.

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45. Chace Crawford

School: Trinity Christian Academy, 1999-2003
Most Likely To: Never change his look, bro. Non-matching eyebrows and hair 4 lyfe!!!

44. Charlie Sheen

School: Santa Monica High School, 1979-1983
Most Likely To: Lose his shit. You can see the madness in his eyes already, and it's only 1983.

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43. Steve-O

School: The American School in London, 1988-1992
Most Likely To: Do weird things to his penis.

42. Matt LeBlanc

School: Newton North High School, 1981-1985
Most Likely To: Make dumb guys feel better about themselves.

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41. Lil Jon

School: Frederick Douglass High School, 1985-1989
Most Likely To: Not be a successful rapper, unless he changes up his look.

40. Steve Buscemi

School: Valley Stream Central High School, 1971-1975
Most Likely To: Not age like a fine wine.

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39. Perez Hilton

School: Belen Jesuit Preparatory School, 1992-1996
Most Likely To: Draw penises on the other yearbook photos.

38. Ryan Seacrest

School: Dunwoody High School, 1988-1992
Most Likely To: Fix all this.

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37. Shia LeBeouf

School: Alexander Hamilton High School, 2000-2004
Most Likely To: Start taking himself way too seriously.

36. Kanye West

School: Polaris High School, 1991-1995
Most Likely To: Hide that handsome mug behind many, many masks.

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35. Sean Penn

School: Santa Monica High School, 1974-1978
Most Likely To: Create a famous stoner high school character based on his own experiences.

34. Russell Brand

School: Grays School Media Arts College and Italia Conti Academy, 1989-1993
Most Likely To: Get skinny. Like, really skinny. Like able to use his concave chest as a wide, shallow soup bowl skinny.

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33. Robert Downey Jr.

School: Santa Monica High School, 1979-1982
Most Likely To: Do drugs. Lots of 'em.

32. Marilyn Manson

School: GlenOak High School, 1983-1987
Most Likely To: Grow up, find a steady job, marry, settle down, have two kids, live in the suburbs, and retire at 65 quietly content with life.

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31. George Clooney

School: Augusta High School, 1975-1979
Most Likely To: Undergo the most extreme makeover ever.

30. Jeff Bridges

School: University High School, 1963-1967
Most Likely To: One word: Tron.

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29. Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino

School: Manalapan High School, 1995-1999
Most Likely To: Somehow find a hairstyle worse than this one.

28. Matthew McConaughey

School: Longview High School, 1983-1987
Most Likely To: Not wear a shirt from 1987 until professional retirement.

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27. Matt Lauer

School: Greenwich High School, 1971-1975
Most Likely To: Work with a guy who sharted in the White House.

26. Harrison Ford

School: Maine East High School, 1956-1960
Most Likely To: Own shoes that become the stuff of #menswear legends.

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25. John Mayer

School: Fairfield High School, 1981-1985
Most Likely To: Ditch the tie for obscure Japanese streetwear.

24. Joe Biden

School: Archmere Academy, 1957-1961
Most Likely To: Have a firm anti-malarkey political stance.

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23. Owen Wilson

School: St. Mark's School, 1982-1986
Most Likely To: Get a nose job, we hope.

22. Rush Limbaugh

School: Cape Girardeau, Missouri Central High School, 1965-1969
Most Likely To: Be a civil and insightful moderator of a national discourse on politics and culture while being the very embodiment of class. Ha, just kidding! You were a dick in high school, and you'll be a dick forever, Rush. Good riddance!

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21. Stanley Tucci

School: John Jay High School, 1974-1978
Most Likely To: Nearly steal the show from Meryl Streep.

20. Orlando Bloom

School: The King's School Canterbury, 1983-1989
Most Likely To: Somehow play a fantasy woodland fairy and then marry the hottest model in the world.

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19. Matt Damon

School: Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, 1984-1988
Most Likely To: Make amnesia cool.

18. Snoop Lion

School: Long Beach Polytechnic High School, 1985-1989
Most Likely To: Decide lions > doggs.

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17. Paul Rudd

School: Shawnee Mission West, 1983-1987
Most Likely To: Be pigeonholed into acting roles where he's a grown man with the impulses of the 18 year old boy pictured here.

16. Louis CK

School: Newton North High School, 1981-1985
Most Likely To: See the lighter, sillier side of life!

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15. George W. Bush

School: Phillips Academy, 1960-1964
Most Likely To: Be the first cheerleader in the White House. And ruin everything.

14. Chris Christie

School: Livingston High School, 1976-1980
Most Likely To: Retain that svelte bod!

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13. Jason Alexander

School: Livingston High School, 1973-1977
Most Likely To: Be an architect.

12. Channing Tatum

School: Gaither High School and Tampa Catholic High School, 1994-1998
Most Likely To: Be, and then play a stripper.

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11. Kanye West

School: John H. Vanderpoel Elementary School, 1983-1991
Most Likely To: Hide this adorable smile behind scowls and leather.


10. Jerry Seinfeld

School: Massapequa High School, 1968-1972
Most Likely To: Be a secret style icon.

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9. Jamie Foxx

School: Terrell High School, 1981-1985
Most Likely To: Try to make the jheri curl trendy again in 2015.

8. Rick Santorum

School: Butler Area High School and Carmel High School, 1972-1976
Most Likely To: Join a traveling folk music troupe and OD on peyote while wearing a kooky printed shirt.

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7. Denzel Washington

School: Oakland Military Academy and Mainland High School, 1967-1971
Most Likely To: Shove a bomb up a guy's ass, hence creating the term "butthurt."

6. Bruce Willis

School: Penns Grove, 1969-1973
Most Likely To: Keep that luscious mane forever.

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5. Barack Obama

School: Punahou School, 1975-1979
Most Likely To: Lead the free world, or, like, whatever.

4. Alec Baldwin

School: Aflred G. Berner High School, 1972-1976
Most Likely To: Revive his career on the merit of his voice alone.

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3. Anthony Weiner

School: Brooklyn Tech High School, 1977-1981
Most Likely To: Show his penis on some sort of world wide virtual network.

2. Ice Cube

School: Taft High School, 1983-1987
Most Likely To: Get a little bit of gold and a pager.

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1. Prince

School: Central High School, 1972-1976
Most Likely To: Make pancakes.

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