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• Wow, we didn't realise this famously fashionable reality diva - sitting at the right-hand side of this family portrait - was once such a fan of the double denim look. We can't imagine outfits like these would appear at her and her sisters' high-end clothing boutique!

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• Kim Kardashian

  And here's Kim these days, looking a lot more 'on-trend' than she did in 1991. We wonder if she will ever stage a similar family portrait alongside rapper husband Kanye West and baby North?

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• Puffy sleeves, big fringe... and is that satin? It must be an 80s wedding! There are tabloid photographers who'd give their right arm to see this famously po-faced star flash a smile like this these days.

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• Victoria Beckham

  Victoria's made a name for herself in fashion since leaving the Spice Girls. It's an improvement on her solo singing career, that's for sure!

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• Here's a famous comedienne in her schooldays, where her unusual height made her a lacrosse champ and she was chums with head girl Clare Balding. Such fun!

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• Miranda Hart

  After struggling to find her path in her early twenties, Miranda surprised her family by jacking in her PA job aged 26 and embarking on a comedy career. Good move!

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• In an undated photo from the 1960s, this little lad grins away without a care in the world. These days, you'll notice a few more furrows on that brow. Well, that's what being the top dog will do to you...

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• Barack Obama

  Barack Obama still has fond memories of his childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia. However, he told an anti-bullying conference in 2011 that he wasn't immune to playground taunts - for his unusual name and 'big ears'. They're surely not laughing now!

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• She might be famous as a singer these days, but this English pop star once had a secret talent for racing. Here she poses with her actor brother behind a trophy they won after taking part in a TV contest with their rock 'n' roller dad.

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• Lily Allen

  And here they are today! Lily and Alfie remain close, despite her once writing a song which criticised the then-teenager for being a lazy, pot-smoking ne'er do well. Ouch!

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• A future star of romantic comedies, this quintessential bumbling Englishman was a charmer with a winning smile even back in his school days.

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• Hugh Grant

  After spending his early career in thankless bit parts and overblown low-budget dramas, Hugh was ready to ditch the acting game until he got a part in a little British film called Four Wedding and a Funeral...

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• A cheeky chappy even when he was still a teenager, the Port Vale hat might give this crooner away...

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• Robbie Williams

  Robbie ditched the laddy look years back, and is now more likely to be seen in the garb of his 1960s swing idols. He left Take That in 1995 and has since become Britain's biggest-selling solo artist of all time.

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• This future movie legend might not have acquired his stage name when this photo was taken (he was born Marion Morrison), but we bet that he needed no encouragement to get off his horse and drink his milk.

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• John Wayne

  John Wayne earned his Duke nickname when he was a little boy, after neighbours noticed he never went anywhere without his trusty Airedale, Duke, and took to calling the youngster 'Little Duke'. Fact.

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• This sports star has hardly changed since this snap of him getting his career off the ground as a lad on his home turf of Essex.

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• David Beckham

  Of course it is! These days, David's running around after his own future England stars - his boys are all keen on the beautiful game, with sons Cruz and Romeo signed up to the Arsenal youth team. 

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• Who knew this little girl would grow up to marry a Prince...

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• The Duchess of Cambridge

  Kate Middleton married Prince William in April 2011. 

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• This rugby mad teen ditched the pitch for the racing track for his career

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• Lewis Hamilton

  Lewis is the Formula 1 champion. He's had a high profile relationship with Pussycat Doll Nicola scherzinger, and describes himself as a 'family man'.

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• This Voice of an Angel singer wowed us with her classical tones as a child, but quickly moved onto to pop music and a judging role on Over the Rainbow with Andrew Lloyd Webber.

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• Charlotte Church

  Welsh singer Charlotte is a proud young mum to daughter Ruby and son Dexter, her children with rugby star Gavin Henson. She is now going out with Jonathan Powell and has said in the past that she would love a big family.

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• This fresh faced youngster went on to have a family with Sadie Frost, and an ill-advised tryst with a nanny...

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• Jude Law

  Jude has three children with actress and TV personality Sadie Frost, Rafferty, Iris and Rudy, and is now also dad to Sophia, his daughter with American model Samantha Burke.

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• This singer first found fame in the short-lived S Club Juniors, before moving on to become a member of a girlband...

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• Frankie Sandford

  Frankie is one fifth of girlband The Saturdays. 

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• This little lad ditched the acting in school plays for singing and piano playing...

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• Jamie Cullum

  Jamie is married to leggy model Sophie Dahl, and the couple are proud parents to their gorgeous toddler daughter, Lyra.

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• Who knew such a gorgeous, sweet little girl would become such a Dynasty diva?

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• Joan Collins

  Actress Joan is one glam diva, although her acting recently has been less Hollywood glamour and more chocolate scoffing in the new Snickers advert...

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• Posing with her mother, this young girl is the picture of innocence. But those chubby cheeks didn't stay around for long...

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• Carmen Electra

  As an adult Carmen Electra's fabulous figure was the making of her - she posed several times for Playboy and went on to don the famous red swimsuit as one of the stars of Baywatch.

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• This unassuming young chap looks the picture of respectability but his rebel streak would see him become a giant of the silver screen.

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• James Dean

  Though he starred in just three films, James Dean achieved legendary status thanks to a starring role in Rebel Without a Cause and, despite dying tragically in a car crash at just 23, he remains a movie icon.

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• Take a close look and you may just recognise this talented individual.

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• Amanda Holden

  Amanda Holden isn't just a pretty face - she has starred both on stage and on screen and is currently judging the UK's best (and worst) on Britain's Got Talent.

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• Fresh-faced and freckled, who could imagine that this young lad's need for speed would be the making of him.

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• Jenson Button

  Before turning his attention to Formula One, Jenson Button was a British Karting champ at the tender age of nine. But he had to wait until 2009 to take home the big one - the World Driver's Championship.

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• As a toddler this famous face was as carefree as any other child. Acting, modelling and singing would later take a back seat to more serious issues.

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• Brigitte Bardot

  French actress Brigitte Bardot not only caused controversy as the star of And God Created Woman.

  In later life she has turned her attention to animal rights and regularly courts controversy by criticising immigration and Islam in her native France, being fined on five occasions for 'inciting racial hatred'.

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• At just nine years of age, this youngster clearly enjoys playing up to the camera.

  He would later employ method, mumbling and a little madness on the big screen, in roles ranging from prize fighters to godfathers.

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• Marlon Brando

  The late, great Marlon Brando was acclaimed by both critics and peers for his powerful acting on screen and stage.

  But he famously refused his second Oscar (for The Godfather) stating his objection to the depiction of American Indians in Hollywood as the reason.

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• At just three years old, this lovely lady was preparing for a career in the spotlight.

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• Jodie Kidd

  Practice makes perfect! Jodie Kidd began modelling at 16  and went on to strut her stuff for the likes of Chanel, Gai Mattiolo and Karl Kagerfeld.

  No longer "a bag of bones", Jodie is currently expecting a little one of her own.

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• Even as a teenager, this glamorous young woman knew how to pose. But a few years later it was her ample assets and party animal antics that would make the headlines.

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• Katie Price

  Now a successful businesswoman and mother-of-three, Katie Price needed a little help from the surgeon's knife to really make it big.

  Since then her private life has kept her firmly in the spotlight.

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• As an angelic, young child this chap looks like he doesn't have a care in the world. But that smile was a rare sight when he achieved fame and fortune.

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• Kurt Cobain

  Kurt Donald Cobain was the lead singer of American band Nirvana. He was married to Courtney Love, and the pair had a daughter, Frances Bean together before his death in 1994.

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• At the tender age of 13, this young lady is well-groomed in school blazer and tie.

  Though she would don a blazer again later in her career, it is her pretty face (and voice) that will make her star.

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• Sarah Harding

  Following the immense success of Girls Aloud, Sarah Harding regularly vamps it up at London nightspots, has rocked a school uniform in the St Trinian's movie... but the natural hair colour is long gone.

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• The sweet smile, combed hair... who would have thought this charming nine-year-old chap would become obsessed with "more powerrrrr"?

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• Jeremy Clarkson

  It is of course, Top Gear presenter and ultimate petrolhead Jeremy Clarkson. It's been some time since he wore the jumper, shirt and tie combo... or combed his hair for that matter!

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• With those sultry good looks and natural 'too cool for school' aura, at just three years of age this young man was destined for stardom... but not as a guitarist.

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• Orlando Bloom

  In fact, he went on to become Pirate of the Caribbean and movie heartthrob Orlando Bloom, who recently welcomed a child of his own with supermodel wife Miranda Kerr.

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• This young lady's golden locks and beautiful smile are much admired on screen and on red carpets across the world. But can you guess which British beauty she blossomed into?

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• Kate Winslet

  The archetypal English Rose, Kate Winslet. She first achieved fame, aged just 17, after winning the lead role in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures.

  Now she boasts a host of awards, including an Oscar, and is remembered by many as the Rose that stole Leonardo's heart in Titanic.

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• Though we can't help wanting to squeeze those cheeks, even as a baby this A-list actor displayed his customary piercing stare from those beautiful brown eyes.

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• Antonio Banderas

  As a star of the silver screen Antonio Banderas swapped the baby bonnet for the Mask of Zorro - but that intense gaze and the Latin good looks remain.

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• This might look like your average school girl but that face would one day be recognised and envied by women (and men) all over the world.

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• Kate Moss

  Just a few years later Kate Moss was spotted by a modelling agency and went on to become one of the world's most famous supermodels, strutting her stuff on the catwalks of London, Paris and Milan.

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• This young singer was a member of S Club juniors before joining a hugely successful girlband. She's now married to Marvin from JLS.

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• Rochelle Humes

  Rochelle is a member of the Saturdays, alongside Vanessa, Frankie, Mollie and Una, who is mum to baby Aoife Belle. 

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• We bet you can't guess who this youngster is?

  The blonde hair might not be familiar but look closely and you might just get a glimpse of a famous sneer-in-the-making.

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• Elvis Presley

  Yep, that blonde hair later became the most famous quiff in the music world and, with his sneer perfected, Elvis went from sullen young boy to the King of Rock 'n' Roll.

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• An easy one for you now - movie fans will recognise this cute pig-tailed child star from Steven Spielberg classic ET.

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• Drew Barrymore

  Though she is now a beautiful, talented and surprisingly well-adjusted young woman, Drew Barrymore famously went off the rails following her big Hollywood break and had even been to rehab at the age of 14.

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• Though she's only a toddler here, this star of the future is already displaying the attitude and personality that would propel her to fame.

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• Janice Dickinson

  And Janice Dickinson's still got it today - the self-proclaimed 'first ever supermodel' has graced the cover of vogue as well as being loud, proud and wild for many of her 56 years... and she shows no signs of slowing down.

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• You'll never guess who this little cutie grew up to be! Though you'd never know it from his baby photo, this little lad would go on to inspire millions of wannabes to copy his disco dance moves.

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• John Travolta

  It's the star of Grease, Saturday Night Fever and, more recently, Pulp Fiction, John Travolta. And we're happy to say he grew into those big blue eyes.

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