these pint-sized performers were
undeniably cute and precocious as child
stars tend to be but they've grown up to
become unrecognizably gorgeous
transforming into action stars musicians
and everything in between Jonathan
Lipnicki rose to fame as the adorable
bespectacled kid in 1996 is Jerry
Maguire player he also appeared in Mike
Mike and the Stewart little movies but
he struggled with his stardom during his
teen years though he's consistently
landed roles since his child acting days
being a famous kid was rough for the
young star as you revealed on Instagram
as a kid slash teen I was made fun of
relentlessly by some people I was told I
was a has-been and would never book a
job again I was made to feel like
garbage every day of middle school to
the point where I had a panic attack
every night before school because I
wondered how I would get through the
next day fortunately Lipnicki has put
his self-doubt behind him and his
brand-new confident exterior is
unrecognizable from the adorable kid he
used to be not only is he still acting
but he's also managed to become a brown
belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and has some
major muscles to show off from his hard
work and yes he finally graduated from
braces Josh Peck will probably always be
known as a Nickelodeon star part of the
reason his beloved sitcom Drake and Josh
worked so well was because Peck was the
polar opposite of his co-star Drake Bell
Bob Bell played a smooth-talking
ultra attractive ladies man Peck was the
chubby nerdy brother but oh how the
tables have turned
since the early days of Drake and Josh
Peck has lost about 110 pounds watt Bell
has navigated bankruptcy and DUI charges
in a 2008 interview with parade Peck
admitted I always had a weight issue
since I was a young kid I just realized
that I was not really happy and I
decided to become healthy hopefully I
will be able to keep it off the dream is
to whip off my shirt and have like I
just said just a four pack I'd be okay
with a two pack even even a dad by these
days Peck is less of a nerdy sidekick
and more of an actual star his youtube
channel has more than 3 million
subscribers and he's racked up plenty of
credits and TV shows and indie films
he's also come a long way from chasing
Mindy Crenshaw on TV as he's grown up
and gotten himself a wife and a kid long
lived Neville Longbottom the
powder underdog who taught us that you
don't always need to be brave to be a
hero Matthew Lewis started playing the
nerdy Gryffindor when he was just 11
years old by the second film in the
series he was already fighting with
puberty to keep his childish looks it
didn't work and his intimate years long
relationship with the fat suit began as
he revealed to the a/v Club he lost
weight and thought his part might be
recast instead he kept the role and had
to deal with the fat sale false teeth
and false ears he lost a fat suit the
fat see when we figured that he'd been
living on the ground so he's not eating
too well Louis was eventually able to
reveal his slim figure in public he
looked almost nothing like his former
self but everyone has to grow up and
graduate from Hogwarts eventually his
transformation was so astounding that
BuzzFeed coined the term neville
longbottom II to describe when puberty
give someone a major glow up the
unlikely Harry Potter hero has gone on
to strut his stuff and shirtless
magazine spreads that show off a
six-pack we never thought we'd see
Neville in his underpants but here we
are most people who saw 2002's the ring
up the footage from the creepy VHS he
permanently burned into their brains the
image of Samarra crawling out of the TV
is still absolutely terrifying more than
a decade later but as it turns out
Samara actually isn't all that scary in
real life instead she's all grown up and
totally gorgeous before the ring
ceviches had some minor TV parts and
provided the voice of lilo and lilo and
stitch after playing the creepy undead
tween she ditched a long black locks and
starred on HBO's Big Love she's still
acting and she's also perfected the art
of the Instagram model shot in 2017 she
had a brush with the tabloids when she
was arrested after allegedly dumping a
dying man outside of a hospital
according to TMZ she wasn't a suspect
and was merely trying to help the man
who died of a possible overdose but she
did have an outstanding warrant at the
time she was arrested again in 2018 for
misdemeanor possession of a controlled
substance most audiences first saw
Abigail Breslin as the unlikely beauty
queen and little miss sunshine olive
Hoover was an icon of self-love and
oversized glasses and sweatbands as it
turns out the actress isn't too far off
from her character in real life as an
adult she's still smashing Hollywood
beauty norms and has spoken out publicly
about the subject in 2015 after some
people posted negative comments about
photos of Selena Gomez Breslin responded
with a tumblr post she declared how
young girls supposed to grow up normally
and not feel bad about themselves and
not develop eating disorders if it's
literally national headline news that a
thin girl may or may not have put on a
few pounds and yet still remains then
Breslin doesn't just spend her days
smashing the patriarchy and defying
Beauty norms she's still acting
including a high profile series regular
role on the horror comedy show scream
cleans she also released a biting
breakup song called you suck in 2014
that sent 5 seconds of summer fans into
a frenzy as the inspiration for the song
was reportedly that band's lead
guitarist Michael Clifford before SIA
enlisted Maddie Ziegler to play a
miniature version of herself Alyson
Stoner was the original music video
dancing queen she first rose to fame and
multiple Missy Elliott clips including
work it and I'm really hot that success
led to roles and flicks like Cheaper by
the Dozen and the step-up series but
growing up in the spotlight wasn't easy
for her as she told romper in 2019 the
machine is not really designed for
overall human health you know it chews
us up and spits out and we stay because
we hope to raise and inspire other
people and create impactful material but
ultimately the chaos and the daily fear
of being unemployed over and over again
and the highs and lows and the
volatility of it all is not for the
faint of heart perhaps as a result of
that experience stoner ended up firing
her TV and film team to focus on her
music career as an adult she looks
almost nothing like the pigtailed little
girl she used to be and in 2018 she
revealed another big transformation in a
Teen Vogue op-ed that detailed her
difficulty with coming to terms with her
own orientation she revealed I Allison
I'm attracted to men women and people
who identify in other ways I can love
people of every gender identity and
expression
nicholas hoult has come a long way since
starring alongside Hugh Grant in 2002 is
about a boy he's not just a boy anymore
though his cobalt blue eyes are the one
thing that's never changed he looks
almost nothing like his childhood self
and appropriately enough he's gone on to
embark on his most important role yet
fatherhood in January 2019 he told The
Evening Standard having a baby puts you
in this place where you go oh okay this
human is going to change a lot it makes
you value time differently which is why
I talk very quickly in interviews now
because I need to get home to that
Holt's priorities have obviously changed
in adulthood beyond being a father
he's also transformed into a
full-fledged movie star after a
recurring role in the British teen drama
skins it was initiated in
the x-men universe as the big blue Beast
on top of killing it at the box office
is 2018 period drama the favorite was
nominated for ten Oscars if you saw
Blake MacGyver Ewing today you think he
was probably a male model little would
most of us know that he once starred as
a nerdy but totally adorable little
rascal in the 90s specifically he played
bespectacled troublemaker Waldo in
1994's The Little Rascals he had a bit
of a reputation as a childhood
antagonist and he also played Michelle's
rival Derek on full house the people
still come up to me wanting me to sing
Yankee Doodle Dandy constant yeah so
child stardom is notoriously difficult
and many former kid actors burn out in a
string of duis and drug arrests Ewing
doesn't regret a single bit of his past
life as he told live in during 2014 I
was one of the lucky ones I wanted to do
it
I wasn't pushed into it I had parents in
the industry who didn't want me to do it
but I pushed and pushed it afforded me a
journey that I wouldn't trade for
anything Ewing has since focused his
efforts on music so it took him years to
release an album he picked up go-go
dancing to fund his career rather than
crowdsources music via Kickstarter which
he described as empowering because he
realized he was quote comfortable in his
own body it sure doesn't hurt when
you've got a 6-pack Cole Sprouse his
glow up as a thing Aventa me it's not
very often a star goes from full cut to
met gala in a few short years he and his
twin brother Dylan were like the male
version of mary-kate and Ashley Olsen in
the early 2000s they rose to stardom on
Disney's The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
where they hit every awkward puberty
mark punctuated by they're unforgivable
bull cuts and Disney wardrobe after
their run with the mouse house ended
this process went from the sweet life to
the dorm life cult old Women's Wear
Daily in 2017 the goal for me to go to
college and my brother as well was to
fade out it's no new narrative to say
that when people get out of child
stardom they oftentimes Rubel in very
serious ways I didn't want to make that
public spectacle so part of the reason I
went to college was that I wanted to
fade out peacefully but it seemed that
Cole's plan to avoid theme seems to have
reversed itself as he's completely
reinvented himself as a sex symbol on
Riverdale the CW's gritty Archie comics
adaptation the series marked his first
role in five years and yes he finally
cut his hair isabelle fuhrman pulled off
a feat most child stars don't ever
accomplish she jumped into the psyche of
a 33 year old adult who is posing as a
child
when she was just a child herself
discovering that her character Esther
was a full-fledged adult an orphan will
forever go down as one of the most
iconic horror movie moments of the 2000s
but it was challenging for the then
ten-year-old star to understand some of
the film's adult themes as she told the
405 in 2018
everyone was conscious of the fact that
I was a kid and didn't want me to grow
up too fast
but I had to understand what it was like
to be rejected I had to understand what
it was like to want love so badly that
you would do something like that 10 year
olds just don't think about those sort
of things I am the Dean maybe in
Transylvania River Country from
incidentally I'm from Russia
Transylvania isn't even a country it's a
part of Romania Furman has of course
become an actual adult herself she since
landed roles in films like the Stephen
King adaptation cell and the
supernatural horror down a dark Hall she
doesn't look anything like the pigtailed
nightmare she played as a young kid
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