Before they were famous: Take a look at your favorite stars during their childhood

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Have you ever wondered what your favorite stars looked like before they hit big? Back in the day, were they hotties or flops? Here is a compiled list (of course with pictures) of Japanese celebrities when they were young and nobodies. Compiled below are pictures of models, actors, comedians, singers, idols and Johnnys and more; and what they looked like when they were teens/children. Did they change? Get a good surgeon? Or remained the same? How about those yankii brows some of those girls are sporting? Please join me as we have some laughs and some tears at what our faves looked like before they were famous. Also feel free to add any missing people in the comments.

Johnnys

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Yamada Ryosuke





Matsumoto Jun





Yamashita Tomohisa





Nishikido Ryo





Sakurai Sho






Akanishi Jin





Ikuta Toma






Tegoshi Yuya





Chinen Yuri





Takahisa Masuda





Shigeaki Kato





Ohno Satoshi





Kimura Takuya






Nakai Masahiro





Kamenashi Kazuya







Tanaka Koki





Taguchi Junnosuke





Tatsuya Ueda





Nakamaru Yuichi





Actors

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Yamada Takayuki





Odagiri Joe





Mizushima Hiro





Mukai Osamu





Miura Haruma





Hayami Mokomichi





Tamaki Hiroshi





Shirota Yuu






Satou Takeru





Oguri Shun





Ichihara Hayato





Igarashi Shunji






Male Talento/Comedians/Artists

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CHEMISTRY's Kaname Kawabata





CHEMISTRY's Yoshikuni Dochin





EXILE's NESMITH





EXILE's AKIRA





AAA's Nishijima Takahiro





Eiji Wentz





Ariyoshi Hiroiki






DJ Ozma (Middle)





Koike Teppei






EXILE's TAKAHIRO





Tachibana Keita





Fukuyama Masaharu





Ken Hirai





Idols

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Oshima Yuko






Itano Tomomi






Sudou Maasa (Berryz Koubou)





Kashiwagi Yuki





Watanabe Mayu





Mano Erina





Shinoda Mariko





Sashihara Rino





Kojima Haruna





Akimoto Sayaka






Actresses

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Gouriki Ayame





Koyuki





Takei Emi





Takeuchi Yuko





Sawajiri Erika





Ayase Haruka






Aragaki Yui






Eikura Nana





Kitagawa Keiko






Kitano Kii





Kinoshita Yukina






Inoue Mao





Ueto Aya






Ueno Juri






Ishihara Satomi





Ichikawa Yui






Aibu Saki






Toda Erika





Nagasawa Masami





Nakama Yukie





Fukada Kyoko





Fukada Saki





Horikita Maki





Maeda Atsuko





Miyazaki Aoi





Yonekura Ryoko





Female Artists

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Ayaka






Amuro Namie






Ishikawa Rika






Utada Hikaru






Ootsuka Ai






Kuraki Mai






Koda Kumi






Goto Maki





Shibasaki Kou





Nakashima Mika





Nishino Kana





Hamasaki Ayumi





Matsuura Aya





YUI





Perfume's A~chan





Perfume's Kashiyuka





Perfume's Nocchi





Shiina Ringo





Kimura Kaela





Female models/comedians/talento

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Kumikky





Abiru Yuu






Kyary Pamyu Pamyu





Ogura Yuuko





Karina






Gal Sone






Tsuji Nozomi





Hoshino Aki





Masuwaka Tsubasa





misono





Yaguchi Mari





Yanagihara Kanako





Yamada Yu





Wakatsuki Chinatsu





Becky





J-rockers

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B'z





Yoshiki





Kai (Gazette)





Reita (Gazette)





Tora (Alice Nine)





Dir en Grey





Miyavi





Gackt






Hyde





source: 1, 2, 3

Also including a picture of myself when I was younger (I'm on the left).