When They Were Young: Celebrities as Children

September 3, 2010 4 Comments

Although it doesn’t look like it, everybody was young once. Yes, even your favorite celebrity. Here’s a list of them when they were cute and huggable.

Always a Swinger: Tiger Wooooooods

Tiger Woods wasn’t always the alpha male golfer and womanizer you may think of him as today. Yes, before his heart turned black he too was cute as pie.

“Arsher”, baby

Before he song the urban radio hit, “There Goes My Baby,” he was one himself. And he used to have one of those pillow-soft afros that would sway in the wind at just the right altitude. And judging from that smile, he was a happy baby, too. Everybody loves Raymond!

Eminem (or M&M)?

Marshal Mathers was just your average dysfunctional kid in the suburbs of Detroit before his Moms started doing foul stuff … fueling the raps that would later make him a millionaire.

Weezy F. Literal Baby

Lil Wayne, aka, Weezy F. Baby has long been the smallest man on the block. Rapping since he was in diapers, Wayne already knew in elementary school what he would be doing with his life: Making money. Cash Money. Young Money.

Bow Wow Wow Yippy Yo Yippy Hay

Before hip-hop, Little Bow Wow was just a puppy. Who would think that he would be anointed into the rap game by surrogate big brother, Snoop Dogg and become a rap phenom?

Baby Beyonce

Before she called out “All the Single Ladies,” and before she asked her man to “Put a Ring on It,” Beyonce Knowles was a cute little girl with dimples and an easy smile. I don’t see any parts of Sasha Fierce in that face. Do you?

Drake: Don’t cut my water wiiiiiiings

“Drake” Aubrey Graham was a heart throb even as a tyke, as you can see from the pics. Raised in Toronto but schooled to the streets in Memphis, Tennessee, Drake has long enjoyed the best of both worlds compared to his childhood friends. Now that he’s a big-time rapper and all, he lives in HoustonLantaVegas full time now.

Miss Keri baby

Keri Hilson was an accomplished athlete at Tucker High School outside Atlanta. He could shoot hoops, steal boy’s hearts, and apparently write a wicked verse or two. While she obviously chose to do option 3, we think she could dunk on a few other female artists out there.

Kimora Lee Simmons: Always a babe

Kimora Lee Simmons was always cute. She was born to walk the runway and run on catwalks. As a teenager she soon ran into Uncle Russ, and the rest, as they say, is money.