Back In The Day: Celebs Before They Were Celebs

Posted on February 23rd, 2010 - By Bossip Staff

Categories: Galleries

Come down memory lane with Bossip as we show you what your favorite celebs looked like before they made it big.  When Rihanna was just Robin and Jay-Z was just Sean Carter, take a look below and see how they all transformed from then to now.

  • lady

    ahaa rhi rhi in her school uniform and ribbon

  • Blue2nite

    HHhaaa omd lil johnn woowww

  • Glok… Im Nat Turner now !!

    WHO THA BIGGED LIPPED MUH F.UKKER WITH THE BIFOCALS AND BIG AZZ BOW TIE!??!

  • juliemango

    jz and ri ri look cute!!!

  • pynk♥{August Wilson}

    lmbo @ Lil John!!!!!!! Hahaha, omg!!!!!

  • miss

    LMAO!!!!!!! LIL LOL JON LOL TOO LOL FUNNY!!!

  • QUEEN

    LIL JON…WEN T FROM UGLY TO UGLY TO JUST PLAIN FUGLY!!! LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!! 4RM THA QUEEN

  • QUEEN

    JAY Z WAS CUTE ONCE UPON A TIME HUH!!! AWWW!!! LOL!!!! AND RIHANNA’S FOREHEAD DON’T LIE!! LOL!!!4RM THA QUEEN

  • Tee

    WHAAAAT!!! OOKAAAYY!

  • msjas

    MAN WTF PLZ TELL ME DAT AINT LIL JOHN LMAO LMAO WTF

  • OH HELL NAW

    EXCUSE ME BUT WHO THE HELL IS THAT IN THE LAST PICTURE? HE LOOKING A LITTLE SLOW

  • beyonce stan

    That’s not Lil John… That’s Raheem Devaughn. He just had to grow into his looks… LOLOL

  • Chief Hater

    Jay-Z had that gangsta smile from jump! Lil John looks scared in that pic!

  • beyonce stan

    This is what Lil John looked like in high school…

    http://13gb.com/media/images/liljon.HS.jpg

  • Somali Ninga

    so innocent!! before their devil-worshipping days!! SMH

  • http://bossip Keep it Real

    Almost every Black woman in Hollyweird has had a nose job

    Beyonce
    Alicia Keys
    Kelly Rowland
    Halle Berry
    Kimora Simmons
    Tyra Banks
    Janet Jackson
    Vivica Fox
    Eva Pigford
    Lil Kim
    Amerie
    Selita Ebanks
    Dianna Ross
    Patti LaBelle
    Tracey Edmonds

  • Kigali- Life for Dummies

    @Lady

    Thats how little girls look when they go to school in the Carribean. Its actually quite beautiful to see when they are all in a group.

  • DizzyGuy185

    Lil Jon? Really.

    Did Halle Berry have a nose job.

  • Bdot

    - If I was Lil Jon and went from bein’ that n’ga to a n’ga gettin’ p-ssy on the daily, I’d screeam “YEEAAAAAYUH!!!” every cotdamn 5 minutes too.

    - J Lo was fine than a muthafugga.

    - Oprah’s had a LOT OF WORK done on that nose.

    - I’d enlarge Rihanna’s pic, but that FOUR!head would definitely butt me.

    - From Little Amy Winehouse to Dirty Amy Crackhouse

    - Halle had that nose tinkered with too. Hollywood, man.

  • Kigali- Life for Dummies

    So Beyounce has always been beautiful…

  • Sarah

    JENNIFER LOPEZ, ANY WINEHOUSE, AND HALLE BERRY LOOKED THE BEST. HALLE ACTUALLY LOOKED SLIGHTLY HISPANIC. THE OTHER CELEBS LOOKED TOO BLACK RIHANNA, BEYONCE, LIL JON, JAY Z ETC.

  • ladyinblue

    Say what? Lil Jon? he looks like the kid who you take lunch money from everyday.

  • Queen R

    Beyonce was a pretty little girl she has evolved into a beautiful young woman. Rihanna how cute! Will Smith looks the same. JZ looks like my little nephew in that picture. Guys don’t be so hard, wonder how some of your childhood pictures look like, huh!

  • Elana

    Most of them look cute. Beyonce was a beautiful
    child, and she is still beautiful. Jennifer looked more Hispanic than she does now. Will was
    so cute. Halle was always beautiful. Oprah’s hair is beautiful.

  • A Name I call myself: Souls of Mischief (Tee3)

    Luv the picture of lil Hov. He looks like a junior hustler. Everyone else looks really beautiful, except Lil Jon.

  • http://bossip too cute

    some of them look like they have had some cosmetic surgery done,especially their noses,you can tell.

  • Miss All That!!

    They would all still be looking like that if it was not for MONEY!!!!

  • Britchick91!

    the last 1 isnt lil jon

  • Angee

    Who is that in the last pic?

  • prettyfaceAKA

    All of them are cute…even Lil John…that pic of him so funny…Had anybody told Hov he was going to be linked to two of the most beautiful women in the world…he probably would of fainted…Beyonce and Halle been cute their whole lives…Jennifer looks like she was a really sweet person…Snoop is handsome…

  • me

    lil john… Not cute

  • LOVE

    Bye and Rhi were two innocent little gals, not knowing that they will grow to worship the devil, poor thing

  • mcleod10

    lil jon???????????????? no way!!

  • dineomo

    wow CAMEL was actually cuter than Rhitard…what is that she did on her head, Bey was so cute and she had the best hair of them all Halle was Fat and the rest UGLY LIL JON HOLLY MOLLY he was UGLY actually still is

  • SDot

    @Sarah
    WTF is “too black”?? They look like regular kids and young adults to me…Geeze if you hadn’t noticed this is America and black people do live here..UGH

  • Sticky-n-Sweet

    That Lil Jon picture just never fails to crack me up LOL! Oh well, dude got money, so who cares what he looks like…and Snoop looked like my high school boyfriend Ray, awwww, we had to break up cuz we were running up our mama’s phone bills!

  • Cocobaby

    HOW CUTE IS JAY Z HE LOOKS SO ADORABLE. J LO AND HALLE ARE CUTE BUT THEY LOOK LIKE THEY GOT NOSE JOBS. WILL LOOKS THE SAME. NOW PPL CAN STOP ACCUSSING RIHANNA AND BEYONCE OF WEARING CONTACTS. AND LIL JON WAS…. WELL MY MOMMA TOLD ME IF I DONT HAVE ANYTHING NICE TO SAY DONT SAY ANYTHING AT ALL. DAMN!

  • Hey Hey

    Damn Lil Jon lips ain’t got nuthin on Jay-Z’s… His lips aren’t even that big now are they. Shhhuuuuuucks (with an F)

  • Jailess

    Aww cummon, Rihanna cute. always been. everybody is, xcept ofcourse… who’s that in the last pic?!

  • county50

    haha aww rihanna & beyonce look so pretty

  • rudeboy

    why does halle berry & oprah look much in their high scool pix then they do now? WOW!!1 I’M not going to comment on LiL Jon’s pic.

  • rudeboy

    why does halle berry & oprah look much younger now then they did in high school? wow lil jon looks like urkel’s grandfather

  • nicky

    Rihanna looks the best, natural from head to toe, no chemical and her forehead only add to her beauty

  • I’m Just Me…Keeping It Real Since: 1983. 51 DAYS!!! SHANI DAVIS ALL DAY!!!

    That ain’t really Lil’ Jon! Stop lying!

  • Dirty Diana…Let Me Be ♪

    Beyonce is so pretty.
    Halle and Oprah look different.
    jay-Z and Robyn look the same.
    that can’t be lil jon

  • Ms. K. Rock

    Just goes to show that money makes people look good….lol

  • SpellChecker

    I do not think that the last picture is Lil’ Jon that looks too much like Raheem DeVaughn!

  • http://bossip Shamia

    That last pic is RAHEEM DEVAUGHN that look nothing like Lil’Jon his lip ain’t that damn big. Ya’ll people cnt see but anyways Jay-Z look like one of them kids that had a crush on u that u couldn’t stand lol. Beyonce, Rihanna and the rest of them all still look that same.

  • melanie

    This is in response to Ms. racist sarah. What do you mean, when you say a person looks too black? Get a life!

  • LadyShea

    Beyonce looks pretty. Halle looks very different, pre-surgical work.

  • shannon

    DONT BELIEVE THE HYPE THAT IS NOT LIL JON!!!!!

  • SMH!

    of course Beyonce,Halle,and J.Lo had the cutest pics look at them now years later and still gorgeous can’t say that for the others…lol

  • frankiestage

    He might be Lil’ Jon, but he got some big azz lips.

  • Alicia

    Lil John????? God is Good!!!

  • Darth H8ter

    Jay-Z looks like K-Solo

  • dark n lovely

    everybody still look the same except for lil jon i really dnt believe thats him i think he used somebody else picture…if that is him all i got to say is wtf!

  • bobbi

    Jay Z was the ugliest little kid EVER! Talk about a face only a mother could love? WHEW!! Everybody else looks cute. I’m LMAO at the pics of Snoop and Lil Jon!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA…

  • that damn sh#$ disturber

    i recognized all except halle and jon. good pics! halle was beautiful then too. i thought she had a nose job but after comparing this pic to a more recent one…it looks the same!

  • I_AM

    Seeing these pictures makes me anxious to see what Bey and Jay’s kids will look like. To see some little carter boys would be so cute. I smiled at just about all the pictures except for lil jons…just couldn’t get past the lips! They are HUGE! He grew into them though so good for him.

  • Yasmeena

    but howcome beyonce’s eyes are blue???

  • tete

    damn lil jon and snoop wowwwwww!!! lmao buteveryone goes through it lol

  • TaTababy29

    Rihanna looks throwed off,lol!

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  • Tam_Tam

    all of us looked jacked up in school pics back in the day. They all look the same. WTF Sarah, they look too black?? That’s some f**ked up bull to say.

  • Paul Wall

    What? “Too Black?” That’s wrong, the only way that phrase would be correct is to say “even someone with a tan is too Black for Hollywood.” Hollywood’s loss. And I didn’t recognize Snoop but I think everyone caught Will Smith.

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