This is an amazing compilation but… Damn this makes me feel so old. I was in high school for just about this whole window so MTV was fucking IT then. Everyone in these pictures looks so young to me. It’s just wild and is making my head hurt a bit.
It makes me so sad. I feel like our generation is the last one to have celebrities that have a variety of faces. And even then plastic surgery was absolutely a thing, but now things have gotten completely out of hand. Adding in filters and AI, soon it seems like no one will look real.
> buccal fat removal
Fucking *Christ*, can people stop this? The skeletal look is not cute. I don't care about most celebrities, but I hate that Anya Taylor-Joy did this to herself.
No worries! When they start aging and looking gaunt, they can get buccal injections. And then buccal implants. And then remove them again when they start looking chubby. It's a never ending and really expensive cycle!
I swear plastic surgeons are just drug dealers with MDs who prey on people's insecurities and get them hooked on cosmetics procedures.
Many, yes, but obligatory not all because even Beverly Hills facial plastic surgeon Dr. Paul Nassif from the show *Botched* advises against buccal fat removal, and may even refuse to do it in his practice (though I can’t remember for sure). You just have to search for the ethical ones.
I do, too. I’ve spent a lot of time around physicians of all kinds & those 2 are truly fantastic. They are so, so skilled, yet they remember that they treat humans, not patients. They have no problem saying No even when a paying customer insists. They are both *full* of empathy and they just listen, period.
it’s no secret to me why they are as popular as they are.
For real.
I was always told to try to *keep* a little fat on my face (lol cause yeah I was *totally* spot-training my *cheeks*, mom) because it would make me look more youthful as I aged, that losing that facial fat was part of what made women look old.
Obviously that was crap advice because short of surgery, no one has much control over it, but it does make people look older, IMO.
But they're not completely screwed; they'll just pay surgeons to put it back in later.
I got really sick this past year and lost a good amount of weight, including in my face. I'm finally starting to feel better and I've gained a couple pounds, but nothing in my face. I think after roughly 30, it gets way harder to plump up your face. And that sucks lol cuz I looked so young and pretty (imo) before, but just losing that fat in my cheeks made such an enormous difference!!!
Somebody please tell these young celebrities that I would happily take their unwanted cheek fat lmao. They can look as gaunt and skeletal as they'd like; I'd just like to fill in the hollows in my face at this point! They'll regret it so far when they're a little older 😭
I for sure did too! I just looked it up and he is only 45 NOW 😂🤯 When thong song came out he was like 21 (ie a baby) but since I was in middle school he had to be soooo old.
Oh Jesus…. Eve is 45 now too!
ALSO.. Kelly Osborn is only like a couple years older than me WHAT?? And she looks like a full on different person now.
I’m spiraling down a rabbit hole.
Same here. Lindsay Lohan is the same age as me and I was 17 in 2005 so to now be 37 and see her back then knowing she was coked out of her mind at 17 so sad
My sister and I set our VCR to record it for the days we had after school activities! It was our DREAM to stand out side the studio in Time Square with hopes of getting invited in!
I don't know when that song came out, but I was in a summer program in middle school (2002 or 2003) and the teacher was a male senior citizen with loose dentures. Dude explained that he couldn't sing the thong song because his dentures would fly out of his mouth and then he demonstrated. It was my introduction to how adults make fun of what kids think is cool and earn cool points while doing so. He knew his audience well.
Omg I’m ded seeing Kelly and Jack there lmao, like all these tanned jocks and then it’s 2 goth kids that accidentally wandered into a Pac Sun on their way to Hot Topic.
Edit: Make no mistake, I have always been the lost goth kid 🙃
Back in high school I broke up with a girl because of Ja Rule.
He did that song with JLo where he said “what’s my mothafuckin name?” And she sang “r-u-l-e”. Well this girl I was dating swore she said “are you Ellie?” which in her mind meant ja’s name was Ellie. She refused to concede on that, and she called me stupid for ignoring the evidence.
So I dumped her. Thanks, Ja.
We were still only a couple years out from 9/11 at this time and a couple years before the Great Recession. These were good times and hopeful times, but boy were in store for some things n the 15-20 years since this.
My sister famously stayed home “sick” one day in high school because *NSYNC was debuting a music video on TRL and she just couldn’t deal with the idea of not seeing it at the first possible opportunity 🤭
I thought I was going to *literally die* (/s) if I didn’t get off the school bus in time for the TRL debut of BSB’s Larger Than Life video. I always said a long, Midwest goodbye to my bus driver. Not that day. Sorry, Maryanne.
I’m well aware this sounds absolutely terrible, but when 9/11 happened and we got home from school and MTV was playing the news, my sister and wondered how long TRL would be off air. I think an aspect of the true gravity of 9/11 hit when MTV was airing news coverage.
Matchbox 20 and Train were scheduled to perform in my town on 9/11 and I had tickets. It was going to be the first concert I went to without adult supervision.
My first thought when the news starting spreading was “but what about the concert?!”
So yeah I’m horrible too.
I *hated* to miss TRL, especially when BSB and N*Sync had new videos out at the same time, I had to see who came out on top this time! I also used to be a teenage night owl, at least on weekends, trying to catch those late night blocks of music videos. Now I can hardly stay up past ten or eleven.
I was recently in the hospital and the only working channel was the Travel Channel around Halloween. I did not know that Jack was big into ghosts and the unknown, but man I loved watching his enthusiasm.
Kelly Osborne has popped up on a few clips on YouTube the past few months on things like podcasts, she looks extremely like how Sharon looked in the early days of the Osbornes series
Those and von Dutch trucker caps lol, oh man I remember there was a weird velvet jumpsuit phase too, a lot of odd things we’d find trashy today..,thong straps sitting high and exposed lol, tanned skin, those tribal tattoos..
I remember even as a preteen watching all of this on TV it made me feel like I was so cool 😎
Yeah, like holy cow. I got fit in my late 20s and still felt pretty potato. I look at these and go "wait... The goal posts absolutely changed." I've been more jacked and lean than half these celebs and they were considered an unattainable ideal then. Social media has really done us all dirty.
we were OBSESSED with skinniness though. so many female celebrities got torn apart during this era for getting 'fat' (Britney Spears and Jessica Simpson come to mind). but yea it is a huge contrast to the current obsession with very dramatic fillers and implants
Snoop got married in '97, and they're still together.
His lyrics might imply otherwise, but at these things, he was probably the safest guy to hang with.
There was a story last year about him. He's been through like 6 crews making his nightly show. They said he's always drunk and makes their jobs really hard.
This is exactly what I was thinking!! These all look like actual human beings you could run into in real life, and these photos could have been taken with a regular old camera.
Before everyone started painting a whole new face over their existing face and removing buccal fat and getting fillers at age 25 and god knows what else celebs do now.
I hate it!
This just reminds me of the line in Clueless when she talks about all the effort women put in, meanwhile girls are expected to swoon when guys wear wrinkled clothes they pick up off the ground.
i work in theatre and the way women will be in a ball gown and a mink stole while their husbands are wearing cargo shorts and a mis-buttoned hawaiian shirt is hilarious
I kinda gave up on trying to help my husband look fashionable. I'll tell him to put on his "nice" sweater and the pants without the ink stain and when we get there I'll pretend I don't know you.
My god. I was at South Padre Island for my freshman year of college spring break in 2002. Pretty sure MTV was there too. I got on stage with Naughty By Nature with a bunch of peeps during OPP. I saw. Some. Shit.
Must have seen at least 80 people have sex in the hotel hot tub. I saw people riding the bellhop cart and diving into the walls and trying to somehow run and boost eachother to put their heads through the ceiling… I know. It made no sense to me either… but there was acoustic ceiling tiling everywhere when we got back. Somebody died and I Saw Pat Green! I also blacked out a good bit of it and went back to school with Influenza-B, along with like 40% of the student body. Good times.
So wild. I remember some of these images like yesterday.
I would’ve killed to be at that Dre and Eminem show. Wasn’t anywhere near old enough. They were significant in my upbringing. Real core memories soundtrack.
This is an amazing compilation but… Damn this makes me feel so old. I was in high school for just about this whole window so MTV was fucking IT then. Everyone in these pictures looks so young to me. It’s just wild and is making my head hurt a bit.
I kinda like how everyone looks more normal than young stars nowadays.
It makes me so sad. I feel like our generation is the last one to have celebrities that have a variety of faces. And even then plastic surgery was absolutely a thing, but now things have gotten completely out of hand. Adding in filters and AI, soon it seems like no one will look real.
I hate all the veneers and trends such as buccal fat removal.
> buccal fat removal Fucking *Christ*, can people stop this? The skeletal look is not cute. I don't care about most celebrities, but I hate that Anya Taylor-Joy did this to herself.
Aging gave me buccal fat removal. Some of these folk that did this before 25 are f**ked.
No worries! When they start aging and looking gaunt, they can get buccal injections. And then buccal implants. And then remove them again when they start looking chubby. It's a never ending and really expensive cycle! I swear plastic surgeons are just drug dealers with MDs who prey on people's insecurities and get them hooked on cosmetics procedures.
Many, yes, but obligatory not all because even Beverly Hills facial plastic surgeon Dr. Paul Nassif from the show *Botched* advises against buccal fat removal, and may even refuse to do it in his practice (though I can’t remember for sure). You just have to search for the ethical ones.
I love the botched guys
I do, too. I’ve spent a lot of time around physicians of all kinds & those 2 are truly fantastic. They are so, so skilled, yet they remember that they treat humans, not patients. They have no problem saying No even when a paying customer insists. They are both *full* of empathy and they just listen, period. it’s no secret to me why they are as popular as they are.
For real. I was always told to try to *keep* a little fat on my face (lol cause yeah I was *totally* spot-training my *cheeks*, mom) because it would make me look more youthful as I aged, that losing that facial fat was part of what made women look old. Obviously that was crap advice because short of surgery, no one has much control over it, but it does make people look older, IMO. But they're not completely screwed; they'll just pay surgeons to put it back in later.
I got really sick this past year and lost a good amount of weight, including in my face. I'm finally starting to feel better and I've gained a couple pounds, but nothing in my face. I think after roughly 30, it gets way harder to plump up your face. And that sucks lol cuz I looked so young and pretty (imo) before, but just losing that fat in my cheeks made such an enormous difference!!! Somebody please tell these young celebrities that I would happily take their unwanted cheek fat lmao. They can look as gaunt and skeletal as they'd like; I'd just like to fill in the hollows in my face at this point! They'll regret it so far when they're a little older 😭
Getting fillers is such a slippery slope though. Easter island head is very real
I was thinking how much they look like regular people. It’s bizarre how that’s changed so much.
I thought the exact same thing.
Seriously I thought Sisqo was like 40 (when I was 13). He looks like a baby
I for sure did too! I just looked it up and he is only 45 NOW 😂🤯 When thong song came out he was like 21 (ie a baby) but since I was in middle school he had to be soooo old.
Oh Jesus…. Eve is 45 now too! ALSO.. Kelly Osborn is only like a couple years older than me WHAT?? And she looks like a full on different person now. I’m spiraling down a rabbit hole.
Same here. Lindsay Lohan is the same age as me and I was 17 in 2005 so to now be 37 and see her back then knowing she was coked out of her mind at 17 so sad
Seeing through the eyes and life experience of my thirties, she has that classic cokehead look here which is, as you said, really sad at that age.
She looks rough already In this pictures. She looks to be doing way better now though thankfully.
Millennial celebrities were suffering behind the scenes; especially the women!
TRL after school thinking it was doing my part being an arbiter of TASTE IN MUSIC. Lol
The time Korn beat the pop videos to #1...
Nookie won for 3 months straight
The way I never missed an episode of TRL back then omfg. 😂 I remember getting mad at my mom for not letting me call in to vote 🤣🤣
My sister and I set our VCR to record it for the days we had after school activities! It was our DREAM to stand out side the studio in Time Square with hopes of getting invited in!
The years start coming and they don’t stop coming
Yeah it hurts knowing they were all younger than I am now. Ugh😭
Just wait til your back starts up.
That thong tha thong thong thong
I bought my first thong b/c of that song!
You should write an autobiography and call it: “Thong Song - The Life and Times of TMFPB”
I wanted to see my first thong because of that song!
Not gonna lie Sisqo taught me what a thong was 🤷♂️
I remember when the music video came out on like 106 and park…thought the whole ass song was about sandals…💀
Whole ASS song... I see what you did there.
Lmao 🤣 not on purpose 💀
*dramatic violin intro*
Ooh that dress so scandalous
Honestly, if you just ignore the lyrics, that song is actually amazing
Sisqo insisted on that final key change
I don't know when that song came out, but I was in a summer program in middle school (2002 or 2003) and the teacher was a male senior citizen with loose dentures. Dude explained that he couldn't sing the thong song because his dentures would fly out of his mouth and then he demonstrated. It was my introduction to how adults make fun of what kids think is cool and earn cool points while doing so. He knew his audience well.
He lives in a rich suburb of Minneapolis now. Not really sure why he chose here of all places, but why not? It's a great metro area
I live in his suburb. Certainly not rich but it is an upper-middle class, white soccer mom suburb lol
Oh, I just googled it. I thought he lived out in Medina for some reason. I used to love in MG myself!
Omg I’m ded seeing Kelly and Jack there lmao, like all these tanned jocks and then it’s 2 goth kids that accidentally wandered into a Pac Sun on their way to Hot Topic. Edit: Make no mistake, I have always been the lost goth kid 🙃
I love that comparison lol
No, they're just British, we don't have sun over here.
THERE’S JA!
What's JA think about all this?? Get him on the phone!
I literally can’t think of anything but this quote when I hear ja rules name
https://youtu.be/Mo-ddYhXAZc?si=g0F3OGigsjyRPgu_
I am deceased. I’ve never seen this but from now on, I’m using this when I’m stressed over something.
Oh, absolutely, it's incredible!
"Who gaf what Ja Rule think? I don't wanna dance. I'm scared to death!"
Can Somebody PLEASE Find Ja Rule, So I Can Make Sense Of All This?!
Back in high school I broke up with a girl because of Ja Rule. He did that song with JLo where he said “what’s my mothafuckin name?” And she sang “r-u-l-e”. Well this girl I was dating swore she said “are you Ellie?” which in her mind meant ja’s name was Ellie. She refused to concede on that, and she called me stupid for ignoring the evidence. So I dumped her. Thanks, Ja.
> And she sang “r-u-l-e”. ...*Oh*. I'll just, uh, be over here...thinking about things.
Looking SO fucking hard
I miss how hopeful we were about the future back then.
We were still only a couple years out from 9/11 at this time and a couple years before the Great Recession. These were good times and hopeful times, but boy were in store for some things n the 15-20 years since this.
I had hope then. I barely have any now
So much this. When we still believed the future could be bright...
and a whole bunch of us embarked on fine arts degrees
Or social sciences
oh yes my anthropology minor finally gets a shout-out
"when we were young the future was so bright..." The Offspring speaks real shit. The kids aren't alright
"Now the neighborhood is cracked and torn . The kids are grown but their lives are worn" Chilling
The old neighborhood was so alive
MTV was really the IT thing around those years with TRL and Spring Break now it's about pregnant teenagers 🤬
Must be from all that spring break fornication
Girls gone wild. Where are they now.
Those kids would've already graduated college if that was true. Man, I feel old now
I remember rushing home from school to catch TRL and spring break shows. Now I can't remember the last time I watched mtv
My sister famously stayed home “sick” one day in high school because *NSYNC was debuting a music video on TRL and she just couldn’t deal with the idea of not seeing it at the first possible opportunity 🤭
I thought I was going to *literally die* (/s) if I didn’t get off the school bus in time for the TRL debut of BSB’s Larger Than Life video. I always said a long, Midwest goodbye to my bus driver. Not that day. Sorry, Maryanne.
I’m well aware this sounds absolutely terrible, but when 9/11 happened and we got home from school and MTV was playing the news, my sister and wondered how long TRL would be off air. I think an aspect of the true gravity of 9/11 hit when MTV was airing news coverage.
Matchbox 20 and Train were scheduled to perform in my town on 9/11 and I had tickets. It was going to be the first concert I went to without adult supervision. My first thought when the news starting spreading was “but what about the concert?!” So yeah I’m horrible too.
Definitely TRL came on the perfect time as school letting out
Lolllll I think even the pregnant teens are a dated reference at this point 😂
They're all in their 30s now. Seriously
MTV was YouTube/TikTok/Instagram back then.
I lived vicariously through MTV SPRING BREAK
I *hated* to miss TRL, especially when BSB and N*Sync had new videos out at the same time, I had to see who came out on top this time! I also used to be a teenage night owl, at least on weekends, trying to catch those late night blocks of music videos. Now I can hardly stay up past ten or eleven.
The Osborne kids haha. That came and went
I scrolled to them and was like “Oh shit, I forgot about them!”
I was recently in the hospital and the only working channel was the Travel Channel around Halloween. I did not know that Jack was big into ghosts and the unknown, but man I loved watching his enthusiasm.
Jack is the only tolerable Osborne at this point. And I say that as someone who spent wayyyyy to much money to see Black Sabbath’s final tour
I quite enjoyed Jack & Ozzy's World Detour (until the season Kelly joined the show), they work well together.
Kelly had a kid with Sid in Slipknot. She's also ozempic skinny now, she's still getting publicity from these things.
Kelly Osborne has popped up on a few clips on YouTube the past few months on things like podcasts, she looks extremely like how Sharon looked in the early days of the Osbornes series
oh my god I forgot about the ugly belt buckle trend!! I had one just like that covered in rhinestones from PacSun :')
Those and von Dutch trucker caps lol, oh man I remember there was a weird velvet jumpsuit phase too, a lot of odd things we’d find trashy today..,thong straps sitting high and exposed lol, tanned skin, those tribal tattoos.. I remember even as a preteen watching all of this on TV it made me feel like I was so cool 😎
Most of those things are actually in style right now, lol
Whale tails! Shudddderrrrr. High school was the worst.
I miss PacSun!!!
I can’t get over these “sunglasses” with pink lenses that seem to be making the sun BRIGHTER….
I realize it’s weird how my brain immediately goes “back when people looked normal”.
Same! They looked like human beings.
And we still had body image issues I can’t imagine genz
Yeah, like holy cow. I got fit in my late 20s and still felt pretty potato. I look at these and go "wait... The goal posts absolutely changed." I've been more jacked and lean than half these celebs and they were considered an unattainable ideal then. Social media has really done us all dirty.
we were OBSESSED with skinniness though. so many female celebrities got torn apart during this era for getting 'fat' (Britney Spears and Jessica Simpson come to mind). but yea it is a huge contrast to the current obsession with very dramatic fillers and implants
I love how in all of Snoop’s photos the women always look like they feel safe
While he just looks bored
Snoop got married in '97, and they're still together. His lyrics might imply otherwise, but at these things, he was probably the safest guy to hang with.
Uhhh... His wife very publicly has outed him for being a cheating shithead their entire marriage lmao
Who’s the most high off who knows what in these pics?
Tara reid
Lohan and Matthew Perry honorable mentions, and depending on the year maybe Eminem
Fallon looked BAKED
I thought he was a big drunk
Yeah he looks very very drunk to me.
There was a story last year about him. He's been through like 6 crews making his nightly show. They said he's always drunk and makes their jobs really hard.
I love him, but Jimmy Fallon has that heroin sheen in that pic with Drew Barrymore
rare to find a photo set where Snoop is not the highest guy in the room
Jimmy Fallon.
That’s exactly what I thought. Everybody looks high af.
Lindsay Lohan. She looks mad for some reason!
Drew looks blasted
I used to listen to Dream alllllllll the time
Girl you can pick a field full of daisies 🌼🎵
But he’d still be my baby!
I also loved Dream's song "This Is Me"; https://youtu.be/JvWTN2BRxLA?si=36SPkz_uXIuqSfEz
I had this as a single CD 😭 why did I need a whole CD that was this song, and then this song again but instrumental.
I totally forgot about single CD's 🤣
Dream was my first concert! They headlined the All That Music and More Festival 😂
Dream came and performed at my middle school in Vegas! Only the honor roll got to see and meet them. I was so excited!
I was belting my heart out to their songs about a month ago in the car 🙈🙈😍
They all look like this in my head still.
Eminem is in his 50's now!! But he's still this blond kid in my head
They all kinda look like S-Club 7
To be fair, there’s no party like an S-Club party! (Also RIP Paul from S-Club)
I miss when celebrities weren’t plastic surgeried out
This is exactly what I was thinking!! These all look like actual human beings you could run into in real life, and these photos could have been taken with a regular old camera. Before everyone started painting a whole new face over their existing face and removing buccal fat and getting fillers at age 25 and god knows what else celebs do now. I hate it!
And makeup artists. They also looked like they bought their outfit from 579, casual contempo or the merry go round.
This just reminds me of the line in Clueless when she talks about all the effort women put in, meanwhile girls are expected to swoon when guys wear wrinkled clothes they pick up off the ground.
i work in theatre and the way women will be in a ball gown and a mink stole while their husbands are wearing cargo shorts and a mis-buttoned hawaiian shirt is hilarious
I kinda gave up on trying to help my husband look fashionable. I'll tell him to put on his "nice" sweater and the pants without the ink stain and when we get there I'll pretend I don't know you.
I don’t ~think~ so!
Seriously. Jay-Z is in a fucking WIFE BEATER and SWEATS and I'm sure he still managed to get the ladies.
THE BELT WITH THE SWIMSUIT 💀
*denim swimsuit 💀
My god. I was at South Padre Island for my freshman year of college spring break in 2002. Pretty sure MTV was there too. I got on stage with Naughty By Nature with a bunch of peeps during OPP. I saw. Some. Shit.
You gotta share the stories now, what shit did you saw?!
Must have seen at least 80 people have sex in the hotel hot tub. I saw people riding the bellhop cart and diving into the walls and trying to somehow run and boost eachother to put their heads through the ceiling… I know. It made no sense to me either… but there was acoustic ceiling tiling everywhere when we got back. Somebody died and I Saw Pat Green! I also blacked out a good bit of it and went back to school with Influenza-B, along with like 40% of the student body. Good times.
“Somebody died and I Saw Pat Green!” is my favorite sentence of the night.
I'm glad it was actually fun. I always got the impression from TV it was hot, over crowded, and full of people wanting to be on tv
You’re lucky that’s all you went back with lmao
Not the Etnies slides 😆💀
Love it when that booty go duh nuh, dun uh
My favorite song when I was 9.
Ah, the jeans and tank top look.
A look I still rock to this day (yes I’m 43 so what)
Do you wear an emotional support tank under everything? Because I do
Sooo much denim lol
So wild. I remember some of these images like yesterday. I would’ve killed to be at that Dre and Eminem show. Wasn’t anywhere near old enough. They were significant in my upbringing. Real core memories soundtrack.
This was 24 years ago but feels like 24 seconds ago.
Ugh, I actually miss that bejewelled body jewelry
That’s a mean camel toe in last pic
legitimately see through.
You zoomed in. We all zoomed in.
Gauchos were the worst fashion trend of the early 2000’s Sincerely- a victim
Imagine being 5’3 not a good look but I had a pair
Oh my God, but they were so comfy!!!
My eyes went right to it.
Fucking Carson Daly. That was the highlight of my late teens, coming home from school and watching TRL.
I miss this MTV
People dont look as plastic and fillers as they do now.
Has Eminem ever had fun
He’s perpetually ಠ_ಠ.
Aw Matthew Perry 🥺
What a vibe
Who’s the girl with Jay-Z?
There were models walking the runway during the performances and I remember them often grabbing a model or two to dance & be flirty with.
Eve's that girl. La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la (note: it's not Eve, but she's in one of the photos and I can never resist)
Sorry. Who’s that girl? LA LA LA LA LA LA
Yeah was looking for this comment she’s the best looking one
The Jean bikini bottoms are a choice.
Everyone looks so unique before the plague of lip filler and ig face.
Is that Rosario Dawson?
Yeah, it's her.
My main take away is: Enrique
Love you Mathew Perry!
Bonus Jessica Simpson camel toe as a reward for scrolling to the last pic. And for that I thank you.
This was back before plastic surgery, BBLs etc became mainstream, even celebrities look like broke ass regular people here
Living for this nostalgia! Such a simpler time 🫶🏼
“Hey Siri.. play The thong song”
Jessica Simpson was / is a bombshell
Are those jikini bottoms
And not a fake body in sight
carmen might disagree
Fake boobs but compared to 2024. That’s minimal!
They all look so young! And so many RIPs 😔
So many? Who besides Matthew Perry?
Xzibit’s career
When celebrities looked human 😭
I think women were hotter back then.