We didn’t always look like the fabulous selves we are today.
It took a lot of growing pains and awkward phases to get ourselves to this point, right? Sometimes it’s hard not to look back at old photos and just cringe. For the people who didn’t know us back then, though, these pictures can be a totally hilarious glimpse into what we were like.
When partners and spouses of these 15 people went looking at childhood photos of their significant others, they found absolute gems. Naturally, they decided to share online, and you are going to laugh out loud.
1. His girlfriend looked just like Dustin from “Stranger Things”!
2. “My husband is going to kill me for uploading this.”
3. That perm is totally insane. (Anyone else getting Hermione Granger vibes?)
4. Puberty really changes everything.
5. You’ve heard the phrase “old soul,” but this girl never looked young.
6. This photo was taken at her husband’s Homecoming in 2003, and there’s a lot going on here. Those fishnets!
7. What is even happening here? LOL!
8. Yet another “40-year-old receptionist” look.
9. Now that’s a badass kid I’d like to get to know.
10. He’s drunk on chocolate and birthday power.
11. Check out that Furby collection in the background.
12. She looks like a tiny baby wrestler.
13. This is the most ’90s photo I have ever seen in my life.
14. This guy really got into his “goth phase,” insisting it was “not a phase.”
15. “My Wife: Pilgrim, Futurist, Fabulous (1987).”
(via BoredPanda)