# 2010: Child actresses that are now adult hotties **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 17, 2010, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068 "2010-07-17T23:40:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/41 "2010-07-18T20:23:00Z")
> [@kingbighair](#): > > I’m gonna go with Al from Step by Step - [Christine Lakin](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003115/) That reminds me of another ABC TGIF star that got hot…[Danielle Fishel](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004918/). She actually got hot during the show’s run, since it followed them all through high school and then college. She put on some weight right after the show ended, but still looked good, but then she lost the weight and now looks fan-fucking-tastic. ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/42 "2010-07-18T20:31:06Z")
Going back many decades, Sherry Jackson was a rather plain tomboyish young girl with co-starring with John Wayne in _Trouble Along the Way_ and then as Danny Thomas’s daughter in “The Danny Thomas Girl.” Evidence: [![](https://www.childstarlets.com/lobby/bios/portraits/sherry_jackson12.jpg) ](https://www.childstarlets.com/lobby/bios/portraits/sherry_jackson12.jpg) And then she grew up: [![](http://www.beertripper.com/startrek_images/bp-OS-Andrea_Sherry_Jackson.jpg) ](http://www.beertripper.com/startrek_images/bp-OS-Andrea_Sherry_Jackson.jpg) (Eventually doing a Playboy pictorial in 1967 or so.) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/43 "2010-07-18T21:18:20Z")
Sarah Polley starred as a child in movies like [_The Adventures of Baron Munchausen_](http://content6.flixster.com/photo/11/84/19/11841956_gal.jpg). Then a few years later she appeared as an adult in movies like [_Go_](http://thisdistractedglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/go-dvd-cover.jpg), [_Dawn of the Dead_](http://www.horrorphile.net/images/dawn-of-the-dead-2004-jake-weber-sarah-polley-mich1.jpg) and [_Splice_](http://www.xtra.ca/blog/vancouver/image.axd?picture=splicebath.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/44 "2010-07-18T21:47:26Z")
Anna Chlumsky from _My Girl._ [Then](http://www.childstarlets.com/lobby/bios/portraits/anna_chlumsky12.jpg)and [Now](http://100grana.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/anna-chlumsky.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/45 "2010-07-18T21:57:57Z")
The correct answer for this thread seems to be “all of them”. ---
**Author:** ![Polerius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d78d45/32.png) [@Polerius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polerius)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/46 "2010-07-18T22:27:04Z")
Sarah Bolger: [Then](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1970379008/tt0298845) and [Now](http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/h1tz02jRo-O/59th+Berlin+Film+Festival+Shooting+Stars+Photo/2ezCg3FKKLa/Sarah+Bolger) ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/47 "2010-07-18T23:31:33Z")
> [@kingbighair](#): > > I’m gonna go with Al from Step by Step - [Christine Lakin](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003115/) I always had a crush on Staci Keanan, who is about the same age as me. She was [the daughter in _My Two Dads_](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VlmHNP9So5Y/SfmLRndGEjI/AAAAAAAABV4/OK9d5Cg-jag/s400/MyTwoDads_S1.jpg) and then the oldest daughter in _Step By Step_. She was always cute, but [now she’s really hot](http://www.fillies.com/babemth/babe0068.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/48 "2010-07-19T02:13:47Z")
michele trachenburg was harriet the spy AND a hottie in Eurotrip. count it. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/49 "2010-07-19T02:30:35Z")
Lisa Loring (Wednesday Addams) [http://threshold.vox.com/library/post/from-wednesday-addams-to-cricket-montgomery-lisa-loring.html](http://threshold.vox.com/library/post/from-wednesday-addams-to-cricket-montgomery-lisa-loring.html) (Bonus: the LOTR graphic from the Ballantine paperbacks at the top of the page) ---
**Author:** ![Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/50 "2010-07-19T04:36:21Z")
Mila Kunis was in Disney’s _Honey We Shrunk Ourselves_ which puts her into former child actress territory for me ---
**Author:** ![JoelUpchurch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@JoelUpchurch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoelUpchurch)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/51 "2010-07-19T05:19:56Z")
I can think of a lot of child actresses that have already gone from hot to not so hot. Erin Moran (Happy Days) Valerie Bertinelli (One day at a time) Jennifer Love Hewitt (The Byrds of Paradise) Marie Osmond Janet Jackson (Good Times) If fairness, I don’t detailed track of actresses weight, so some of them might have worked back into hotness by now. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/52 "2010-07-19T15:13:52Z")
> [@Tequila\_Mockingbird](#): > > Mila Kunis was in Disney’s _Honey We Shrunk Ourselves_ which puts her into former child actress territory for me plus i think she was ~ 14 when 70’s show started… which rounds down into kids territory for me ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2010, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/53 "2010-07-20T06:25:07Z")
Scarlett Pomers (aforementioned Naomi Wildman) later was cast in \*Reba \*as the second child. She grew up pretty hot on the show as a teen, but I understand she developed some kind of eating disorder to remain thin. I think she got better though. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2010, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/54 "2010-07-20T12:28:59Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > [Punky](http://www.childstarlets.com/lobby/bios/portraits/soleil_frye12.jpg) [Brewster.](http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/2007/10/01-07/moon-frye-soleil.jpg) I know nothing about skin care and beauty products and aging. Are her freckles now covered with make-up or were they painted on as Punky Brewster or were they surgically removed or did the “go away” with age or what? ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2010, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/55 "2010-07-20T14:15:56Z")
> [@Icerigger](#): > > Emily Browning, the little girl from Ghostship. > > [http://www.theage.com.au/text/ffximage/2009/03/26/svBROWNING2\_narrowweb\_\_300x345.jpg](http://www.theage.com.au/text/ffximage/2009/03/26/svBROWNING2_narrowweb__300x345.jpg) And from the **A Series of Unfortunate Events** movie. Even at 16 in 2004, she was shockingly beautiful in that. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2010, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/56 "2010-07-20T14:26:42Z")
> [@Snickers](#): > > And from the **A Series of Unfortunate Events** movie. Even at 16 in 2004, she was shockingly beautiful in that. Wait till you see the promos for Sucker Punch, from Zack Snyder, the director of 300 and Watchmen. Oy. It has Jenna Malone, Browning, and freakin’ Vanessa Hudgens from Disney. …lord I feel old. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2010, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/57 "2010-07-20T16:32:35Z")
Candace Cameron Bure ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2010, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/58 "2010-07-20T17:00:49Z")
Sarah Michelle Gellar started acting at the age of four. I think she qualifies. ---
**Author:** ![akrako1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@akrako1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akrako1)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2010, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/59 "2010-07-20T22:59:31Z")
how about Nicole Eggert aka Jamie Powell from the beloved Charles In Charge? [before (on the left)](http://bahadiricel.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/charles-in-charge-photo.jpg) and [after](http://www.world-tchat.be/html/uploads/photos/837.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Notorious\_Nik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/858c86/32.png) [@Notorious\_Nik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Notorious_Nik)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/60 "2010-07-24T06:17:58Z")
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