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Celebrities - they were just like us, and these people have the photos to prove it. There is a nostalgic joy that comes from looking through old photo albums and seeing what your family was up to back in the day. Well, as the people on this list discovered their family was hanging out with some pretty spectacular talent - they just didn't know it yet.
This list is a collection of photos of people who were either in the same circle as, friends with or even dating some of the biggest stars out there before anyone even knew their name. Imagine finding out that that old familiar face you used to call 'aunt' or 'uncle' when you were a kid belonged to someone with an academy award? Scroll down below to see some photos of everyday people with some pretty famous names that are probably older than their #10YearChallenge glow-up. And don't forget to upvote your favs!
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#1
My Mom Dated Adam Sandler In High School. Here Are Her Prom Pics
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#2
So My Mom Dated Matt Le Blanc And She Finally Found A Picture Of Them
#3
Just Found These Pics Of Leo With My Family... (He Dated My Aunt)
#4
Found Michelle Obama In My Uncles Yearbook
#5
When My Aunt Dated Jamie Foxx And We Called Him Uncle Jami
#6
My Grandpa And The Black Dahlia (Elizabeth Short) 1945 He Dated Her And Was An Fbi Suspect
Lizard Queen 5 years ago
I would love to hear more stories from the OP. I've read multiple books on the Black Dahlia.
#7
Cousin Dated Matthew Mcconaughey In College
#8
My Aunt Knew Bradley Cooper In College, Before He Was Famous
#9
My Mom Was Childhood Friends With John Travolta And We Found A Photo Of My Nana And Him After One Of His Shows When He Did Theatre! Look At The 70s Hair...
#10
So My Mom Decides To Tell Me She Dated John Legend Secretly When I Was 10???
#11
My Aunt Dated Ashton Back When He Was Young, So I Thought I’d Take This Time To Let Everybody Else Know About My Family Treasure
#12
So My Mom Dated Woody Harrelson
#13
My Aunt Dated Jimmy Fallon
#14
My Sister Used To Date Usher In High School And She Is Just Now Telling Me
#15
My Wife Used To Date "The Fonz" (Henry Winkler) In The Late 70's
#16
My Uncle Is Good Friends With Queen Latifah
#17
My Friend's Parents Used To Be Friends With Drake's Parents. She Found This Picture And Realized Who The Kid Was (1989)
#18
My Sister Dated Macho Man Randy Savage Back In The 90's. This Is Me With Him
#19
Back When Ariana Grande And I 'Dated' And Did Theater Together
#20
My Auntie & Tupac Used To Mess Also
#21
I Just Found Out A Friend Of Mine Went To High School With Zac Efron. He Pulled Out His Yearbook As Proof
#22
Kevin Hart Went To My Bro’s Hs. Our Hs Was Actually Featured In His Laugh At My Pain Movie
#23
My Aunt Use To Date Jay Z Tpp Smh
#24
Turns Out My Mom Dated Josh Hartnet In High School
Iván Galarraga 5 years ago
I see that he had the same condition as Marshall Eriksen, he couldn't be photographed with his eyes open. Glad he is cured now
#25
My Mom Had A Thing With Blake Shelton A Long Time Ago While My Aunt Dated His Bass Player & She Found A Picture
#26
Someone Found Ansel Elgort In Their Yearbook
Aaron Kara 5 years ago
Ansel Elgort and Taron Egerton are clearly aliens that landed recently and didn't understand how human names work...just threw a bunch of letters together, morphed similar handsome faces and infiltrated Hollywood
#27
My Uncle And His Best Friend. Apparently He Was Some Famous Rapper Back In The Day
#28
My Best Friends Mom Went To High School With Josh Duhamel And Found This In Her Yearbook. I Think I See A Mulle
#29
My Daddy Used To Date Ol Girl From Martin
#30
My Mom And Aunt Were Friends With Floyd
#31
My Grandfather Is On The Right. This Was In The Late 70s When He Was Friends With Gilligan
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glowworm2 5 years ago
One of my friends has mentioned that her great great grandmother dated Hans Christian Andersen. She said that he couldn't dance. XD!
Gracie Mae 5 years ago
gotta agree with some of the others--a lot of them look like fan photos. I can believe the 'dating' when they look like a more intimate setting (sitting & holding hands or prom photos). interesting to see some of them though
Kiss Army 5 years ago (edited)
My brothers and sisters went to high school with Melissa Ethridge. I was several years younger and didn't go to school with her but her father was my Psychology teacher. He was one of my absolute favorite teachers! I remember one day in class he asked "Who watched my daughter on Arsino Hall last night?" and we all raised our hands so he yelled "EXTRA CREDIT FOR EVERYONE!!!"
Jace 5 years ago
I once dated a literary-type gal who has now published a book or two. I was never good enough for her, but I did catch her out on not knowing how “segue” was spelled. Ha ha ha... But seriously, the basic humanity of these photos is interesting. The fresh faces that were once obscure unknowns like the rest of us...
HoffLensMetalHedLovesAnimalsUK 5 years ago
My mum went to school with Sid Vicious bassist of The Sex Pistols, they smoked cigarettes behind the science block.
Full Name 5 years ago
Fellas don't seem to keep photos of their ex's from decades ago. All but one are photos of famous dudes.
J. Chris Bourdier 5 years ago
One of my cousins briefly dated white supremacist and former Louisiana state legislator, David Duke. Why yes, I do believe he was married at the time. Funny you should ask.
Time Itself 5 years ago
I know someone whose mom went to school with Nicki Minaj. She said they didn't really talk that much but I saw the yearbook. That was quite a while, wish I remembered who that was
Kenneth V. Jørgensen 5 years ago
Sadly, there were many of the famous people featured here that I never heard of at all.
Edwin Lesperance 5 years ago
I took Shelly Hack to our junior high school prom. I was smitten. She was the prettiest girl in our school.
Lizzie the Crayon 5 years ago
I agree with "seauf" Aunts must have been very popular when they werent aunts...hmmmmmmmm
Jeff Requier 5 years ago
My best friends mom used to babysit Natasha Henstridge from Species and The Whole 9 yards. Went to HS with her, she wasnt popular till after she came back with a boob job.
John Napier 5 years ago
I was set up on a date with a girl who I was uninterested in physically. Then someone showed me her picture in playboy's girls of summer. (I've still got that issue just to remind me about snap decisions)
Ann Abdelzaher 5 years ago
I went to school with Kimberly Pressler... we graduated together in a class of 63 people :)
Marnee DeRider 5 years ago
Another one: A friend of mine's sister used to sing in her HS choir and her church. In high school, one of her classmates talked to her, told her he had a band, love her voice and style, and really wanted her to join. She declined, telling him that his music was too weird and was never going to attract a wide audience. Prince didn't hold it against her that she refused. (I'm from MN, if that isn't already obvious.)
Marnee DeRider 5 years ago
So, after my divorce I dated a thin guy with sandy, long straight hair (sometimes in a pony tail) for a little while who back in high school used to sell weed, did martial arts, and used to have this running schtick about his monkey who also did martial arts. And all his weed buddies would hang out in his basement (where he talked about the monkey). Among his friends was Nick Swardson, who was in the movie Grandma's Boy, which had a thin character with long, straight, sandy hair who hung out in a basement and had a monkey that did martial arts. So, my ex-boyfriend (very likely) had a character in a movie based off of him. Pretty cool! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo_DmKT8Ims
Brian Rommel 5 years ago
I work with s guy who knows James Francos family, his daughter even dated one of his brothers not sure if it was Tom or Dave he didnt specify. They also shot one of his movies at his mother in laws house.
kathryn stretton 5 years ago
Yearbooks don't count. However some of these are really lovely. Memories eh? Wonderful post. Loved it.
Bobbi Newell 5 years ago
I went to high school with MLB player FP Santangelo. Nice guy, I have some humorous memories from Spanish 4 our senior year :)
Bob Beltcher 5 years ago
My cousins friend married George Spring of the Astros. They live in NY, I live in Houston. My wife and I are HUGE Astros fans. We never got a wedding invite lol.
Bored Office Girl 5 years ago
My mom got asked out by Henry Bibby (pro basketball player from the 70s-80s). My mom and her friend were at a restaurant, and he and Dr. J were there after one of their games. So my mom met Dr. J too! Henry even offered to fly my mom somewhere to come see one of their games. She was young, knew nothing about sports, and admitted she didn't even know who they were until her friend told her. She didn't go through with the date :(
Carrie de Luka 5 years ago
Well, who else were they going to be friends with or date bar other people around them?
glowworm2 5 years ago
One of my friends has mentioned that her great great grandmother dated Hans Christian Andersen. She said that he couldn't dance. XD!
Gracie Mae 5 years ago
gotta agree with some of the others--a lot of them look like fan photos. I can believe the 'dating' when they look like a more intimate setting (sitting & holding hands or prom photos). interesting to see some of them though
Kiss Army 5 years ago (edited)
My brothers and sisters went to high school with Melissa Ethridge. I was several years younger and didn't go to school with her but her father was my Psychology teacher. He was one of my absolute favorite teachers! I remember one day in class he asked "Who watched my daughter on Arsino Hall last night?" and we all raised our hands so he yelled "EXTRA CREDIT FOR EVERYONE!!!"
Jace 5 years ago
I once dated a literary-type gal who has now published a book or two. I was never good enough for her, but I did catch her out on not knowing how “segue” was spelled. Ha ha ha... But seriously, the basic humanity of these photos is interesting. The fresh faces that were once obscure unknowns like the rest of us...
HoffLensMetalHedLovesAnimalsUK 5 years ago
My mum went to school with Sid Vicious bassist of The Sex Pistols, they smoked cigarettes behind the science block.
Full Name 5 years ago
Fellas don't seem to keep photos of their ex's from decades ago. All but one are photos of famous dudes.
J. Chris Bourdier 5 years ago
One of my cousins briefly dated white supremacist and former Louisiana state legislator, David Duke. Why yes, I do believe he was married at the time. Funny you should ask.
Time Itself 5 years ago
I know someone whose mom went to school with Nicki Minaj. She said they didn't really talk that much but I saw the yearbook. That was quite a while, wish I remembered who that was
Kenneth V. Jørgensen 5 years ago
Sadly, there were many of the famous people featured here that I never heard of at all.
Edwin Lesperance 5 years ago
I took Shelly Hack to our junior high school prom. I was smitten. She was the prettiest girl in our school.
Lizzie the Crayon 5 years ago
I agree with "seauf" Aunts must have been very popular when they werent aunts...hmmmmmmmm
Jeff Requier 5 years ago
My best friends mom used to babysit Natasha Henstridge from Species and The Whole 9 yards. Went to HS with her, she wasnt popular till after she came back with a boob job.
John Napier 5 years ago
I was set up on a date with a girl who I was uninterested in physically. Then someone showed me her picture in playboy's girls of summer. (I've still got that issue just to remind me about snap decisions)
Ann Abdelzaher 5 years ago
I went to school with Kimberly Pressler... we graduated together in a class of 63 people :)
Marnee DeRider 5 years ago
Another one: A friend of mine's sister used to sing in her HS choir and her church. In high school, one of her classmates talked to her, told her he had a band, love her voice and style, and really wanted her to join. She declined, telling him that his music was too weird and was never going to attract a wide audience. Prince didn't hold it against her that she refused. (I'm from MN, if that isn't already obvious.)
Marnee DeRider 5 years ago
So, after my divorce I dated a thin guy with sandy, long straight hair (sometimes in a pony tail) for a little while who back in high school used to sell weed, did martial arts, and used to have this running schtick about his monkey who also did martial arts. And all his weed buddies would hang out in his basement (where he talked about the monkey). Among his friends was Nick Swardson, who was in the movie Grandma's Boy, which had a thin character with long, straight, sandy hair who hung out in a basement and had a monkey that did martial arts. So, my ex-boyfriend (very likely) had a character in a movie based off of him. Pretty cool! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo_DmKT8Ims
Brian Rommel 5 years ago
I work with s guy who knows James Francos family, his daughter even dated one of his brothers not sure if it was Tom or Dave he didnt specify. They also shot one of his movies at his mother in laws house.
kathryn stretton 5 years ago
Yearbooks don't count. However some of these are really lovely. Memories eh? Wonderful post. Loved it.
Bobbi Newell 5 years ago
I went to high school with MLB player FP Santangelo. Nice guy, I have some humorous memories from Spanish 4 our senior year :)
Bob Beltcher 5 years ago
My cousins friend married George Spring of the Astros. They live in NY, I live in Houston. My wife and I are HUGE Astros fans. We never got a wedding invite lol.
Bored Office Girl 5 years ago
My mom got asked out by Henry Bibby (pro basketball player from the 70s-80s). My mom and her friend were at a restaurant, and he and Dr. J were there after one of their games. So my mom met Dr. J too! Henry even offered to fly my mom somewhere to come see one of their games. She was young, knew nothing about sports, and admitted she didn't even know who they were until her friend told her. She didn't go through with the date :(
Carrie de Luka 5 years ago
Well, who else were they going to be friends with or date bar other people around them?
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