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Where Are They Now? Nickelodeon's Leading Ladies Of The '90s

Given the ratings for "The 90s Are All That," iCarly can't hold a candle to these old school, especially the women who starred in them.

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Thanks to Teen Nick's late-night line-up of 90s shows, entitled, The 90s Are All That, our nostalgia's been running at an all-time high. From Tuesdays through Saturdays, we re-live our childhood with shows we used to come home to watch afterschool. Now with its air time between 12 AM to 2 AM, they've become shows we come home to watch after a night of heavy drinking or a terrible date with a new chick.

Needless to say, we take comfort in Nickelodeon's old shows because they remind us of a simpler time: a time when all our crushes were their leading ladies. But, given its been over a decade since Nick's golden era and most 90s kids have full faces of facial hair now, suffice it to say we've all aged and changed, including the those stars we used to love.

Since we're on this nostalgia kick, we began to wonder, where are these chicks now? Well, thanks to this generation's handy search engine Google, we're able to update you on on their whereabouts. Without further ado, refamiliarize yourself with NIckelodeon's leading ladies of the 1990s.

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Thanks to Teen Nick's late-night line-up of 90s shows, entitled, The 90s Are All That, our nostalgia's been running at an all-time high. From Tuesdays through Saturdays, we re-live our childhood with shows we used to come home to watch afterschool. Now with its air time between 12 AM to 2 AM, they've become shows we come home to watch after a night of heavy drinking or a terrible date with a new chick.

Needless to say, we take comfort in Nickelodeon's old shows because they remind us of a simpler time: a time when all our crushes were their leading ladies. But, given its been over a decade since Nick's golden era and most 90s kids have full faces of facial hair now, suffice it to say we've all aged and changed, including the those stars we used to love.

Since we're on this nostalgia kick, we began to wonder, where are these chicks now? Well, thanks to this generation's handy search engine Google, we're able to update you on on their whereabouts. Without further ado, refamiliarize yourself with NIckelodeon's leading ladies of the 1990s.

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Irene Ng

15. IRENE NG

Show: The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo
Shelby Woo (Ng) was an overachieving granddaughter of an innkeeper who helped around the police station. She also helped solve case after case despite the police asking her to stop. Wondering what she's been up to? Irene Ng's been mostly busy with graduating from Harvard and getting married. Mystery solved.

Summer Sanders

14. SUMMER SANDERS

Show:Figure It Out
From an Olympic gold medalist swimmer to becoming one of the hottest sports and entertainment reporters, Summer Sanders could be considered the Erin Andrews of the 90s, except instead of Dancing With The Stars, Sanders now has the most recent season of Celebrity Apprentice on her resume. Yet before resorting to celebrity reality shows, Sanders hosted the Nickelodeon game show that had us guessing contestant's hidden talents and then consequently screwing ourselves over by trying them ourselves. For instance, trying to fit through a hanger.

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Crystal Lewis

13. CRYSTAL LEWIS

Show:Roundhouse
Nick's sketch comedy variety show, Roundhouse ran for four seasons, but none were as sweet as the first. Crystal Lewis, the now famous Christian/Gospel vocalist, helped format the hit show, as well as make the theme song.

Erin Dean

12. ERIN DEAN

Show:The Journey of Allen Strange
As 16 year-old Robbie Stevenson, Erin Dean was our kind of girl - smart, compassionate and unshamed to say she's shacking up with an alien. Since the groundbreaking SNICK show, Dean guest starred on other teen series, including Boy Meets World and Figure It Out, but she is now retired with no plans to ever act again.

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Venus De Milo

11. VENUS DE MILO

Show:Salute Your Shorts
Before her short run as Alexandra on The Bold and the Beautiful, DeMilo was Telly Radford on Salute Your Shorts. She played the tomboy who could probably out swim-run-jump-and play all the guys at Camp Anawanna. The other girls may have gotten more attention at camp, but DeMilo is making up for it now.

Melissa Joan Hart

10. MELISSA JOAN HART

Show:Clarissa Explains It All
Although she's currently starring in a new ABC Family show, Melissa and Joey, we'd rather tune into Teen Nick to catch her on Clarissa Explains It All. Instead of watching her as a nagging aunt on her new sitcom, we prefer her as the know-it-all Clarissa whose window was always open for our teenage selves to climb into it.

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Vanessa Baden

9. VANESSA BADEN

Show:Kenan And Kel
Since playing Kenan's little sister, Kyra, in Kenan and Kel, Vanessa Baden has stepped away from the limelight. She's moved on from acting (we'll ignore her radio show: Keeping It Real With Reverend Al Sharpton) and graduated from Florida State University.

Kelly Brown

8. KELLY BROWN

Show:Hey Dude
Although Brown quit showbiz after the series ended, she has forever left us with the idea that we were once physically attracted to someone named Brad. We weren't alone at this either; Brown's rich-girl-from-Michigan alter ego unconventionally named Bradley Taylor was the center of the a love triangle between two dudes on the teen western series.

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Joanna Garcia

7. JOANNA GARCIA

Show:Are You Afraid Of The Dark?
Garcia's a pro at sitcoms, first Reba then Better with You. Before she found her talent in comedy she was Samantha, a member of the Midnight Society (a group of tweens who went to the woods to tell ghost stories), on Are You Afraid of the Dark? While successfully giving kids everywhere nightmares, the beautiful Garcia is making it up by giving us pleasant dreams now.

Heidi Lucas

6. HEIDI LUCAS

Show:Salute Your Shorts
After the summer camp ended, Lucas left her acting career and she's now an attorney. But, as the theme song goes, "we will share a lifetime of the fondest memories" to saluting our shorts to Dian Alexander.

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Larisa Oleynik

5. LARISSA OLEYNIK

Show:The Secret World of Alex Mack
Alex Mack was so cool, especially with her overalls and signature backwards cap. As the chick who can turn herself into a puddle of water and transmit electricity through her fingers, she was the kind of girl who we wanted to hang out with. Needless to say, seeing her as the beautiful Bianca Stratford in 10 Things I Hate About You at the height our of own puberty was a bit unsettling. Fortunately, Oleynik still acts and has had minor roles on Mad Men and Hawaii 5-0.

Christine Taylor

4. CHRISTINE TAYLOR

Show:Hey Dude
Before becoming Ben Stiller's wife and getting her nose flattened with a football as a Marcia Brady, Christine Taylor played Melody, the girl-next-door type on the ranch. Nowadays, she's striking some luck with more film and TV roles, most notably Dodgeball and Zoolander.

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Amanda Bynes

3. AMANDA BYNES

Show:All That, The Amanda Show
As a kid, Amanda Bynes was arguably the most notable child comedian. Her original characters including Judge Trudy, and All That's Ask Ashley, and the Amanda-obsessed Penelope. We admit we were pleasantly surprised she didn't turn out as another former child star with a coke addiction and a criminal record, but it was more of a shocker seeing the Easy A star all grown up on the cover of Maxim. Amanda please!

Meagan Good

2. MEAGAN GOOD

Show:Cousin Skeeter
Only in a kid's show would somebody's cousin being a puppet not be questioned. Did Skeeter just look that way? Was the puppeteer actually the cousin who suffered from a delusion? We'll never know. What we do know is that we've already purchased tickets to catch Meagan Good as Gloria Grant in next year's The Amazing Spiderman.

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Michelle Trachtenberg

1. MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG

Show:Pete And Pete
Who could have predicted that the quirky Nona F. Mecklenberg would grow up to be the foxy Michelle Trachtenberg? She played the girl you wanted to kiss but didn't want to get cooties from in Pete and Pete and now she'll be guest starring in Weeds as a rival drug dealer. Kids grow up so fast.

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