# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/61 "2010-07-24T11:13:22Z")
Yeah, I fell in love with her voice in **Big Love**. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/5ZegnocvoBU/hqdefault.jpg "Big Love - Daveigh Chase - The Happiest Girl") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZegnocvoBU) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/62 "2010-07-24T13:14:39Z")
Why are we limiting this to actresses? I SCREAM SEX DISCRIMINATION. I also wish Neil Patrick Harris was playingo on my team:D ---
**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 24, 2010, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/63 "2010-07-24T15:31:21Z")
Allison Smith on _[Kate and Allie](http://www.fridaythe13thfilms.com/saga/part9/allisonsmith3.jpg)_. Allison Smith on _[The West Wing](http://www.fridaythe13thfilms.com/saga/part9/allisonsmith.jpg)_. ---
**Author:** ![NetTrekker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nettrekker/32/2909_2.png) [@NetTrekker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NetTrekker)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/64 "2010-07-24T16:42:37Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > > [@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? I don’t know about the freckles, but didn’t she develop a very large chest that was problematic for her? At any rate, she looks good in that photo. ---
**Author:** ![SoulFrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@SoulFrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoulFrost)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/65 "2010-07-24T17:26:13Z")
> [@JoelUpchurch](#): > > 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. Hey! Don’t you be dissin’ on my first true love! Ok, maybe Valerie was my third true love… Holly from Land of the Lost was first, and Dynagirl might’ve been second. Wonder how they turned out? (Oh my… Dynagirl is sixty!) ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/66 "2010-07-24T20:10:40Z")
> [@Notorious\_Nik](#): > > [daveigh chase - Google Search](http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&source=imghp&biw=1024&bih=651&q=daveigh+chase&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=) > > Daveigh Chase. Stole mine. Those eyes…! And those lips…! ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/67 "2010-07-25T03:34:01Z")
> [@SoulFrost](#): > > Hey! Don’t you be dissin’ on my first true love! > > Ok, maybe Valerie was my third true love… Holly from Land of the Lost was first, and Dynagirl might’ve been second. Wonder how they turned out? (Oh my… Dynagirl is sixty!) Don’t remember Dynagirl, but Holly & Valerie (in that order) were mine too! Holly (Kathy Coleman) was still cute when [this photo was taken in '78.](http://www.landofthelost.com/kathypic.htm) I saw her on the LotL DVDs, still easy on the eyes. And has no one mentioned [Christina Ricci?](http://www.askmen.com/celebs/women/actress_60/88_christina_ricci.html) Or did I miss it? ---
**Author:** ![JoelUpchurch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@JoelUpchurch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoelUpchurch)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/68 "2010-07-25T05:18:05Z")
> [@SoulFrost](#): > > Hey! Don’t you be dissin’ on my first true love! > > Ok, maybe Valerie was my third true love… Holly from Land of the Lost was first, and Dynagirl might’ve been second. Wonder how they turned out? (Oh my… Dynagirl is sixty!) Valerie Bertinelli is still cute, but I watched a few episodes of Hot in Cleveland and she is looking a little hippy. She looks great for 50 even if she has put on a few pounds since she did those bikini shots for People. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/69 "2010-07-25T18:10:36Z")
I haven’t read the thread yet so I’m guessing my list will include a bunch of duplicates. I’m deliberately doing that in order to see just how long this list gets. IMO, this phenomenon is ubiquitous in Hollywood, and it might be easier to ask which hotties _weren’t_ child stars. This dovetails into the idea that male child stars generally don’t get a chance to become a leading man, so their later career start greatly balances out the earlier end the women get. This list would be much longer if it included actresses who got their start in their teens when they already resembled the adult they’d grow into, like Emma Stone, Amber Heard, Alexis Bledel, Sara Roemer, Hayden Panettiere, etc… Childstar turned Hottie: Alyssa Milano Amber Tamblyn Anna Paquin Camilla Belle Christina Ricci Claire Danes Drew Barrymore Eliza Dushku Evan Rachel Wood Jena Malone Kaley Cuoco Kate Mara Katherine Heigl Keri Russell Kirsten Dunst Kristen Stewart Lacey Chabert Leelee Sobiesky Lindsay Lohan Michelle Trachtenberg Mila Kunis Natalie Portman Rachel Leigh Cook Sara Paxton Sarah Michelle Gellar Sarah Polley Scarlett Johansson Thora Birch For the guys: Christian Bale Leonardo DiCaprio The vulnerability that makes a child/teen cute doesn’t translate well for guys trying to become leading men as they grow older. Conversely, they translate perfectly for a leading man’s love interest. It’s funny how well Hollywood picks them. Abigail Breslin was heartbreakingly adorable in Signs, then she started looking like hotness wasn’t in her future in Little Miss Sunshine, but after seeing Zombieland she might turn into a hottie yet. Similar deal with Dakota Fanning. I don’t think it’s fair to list the ones that almost certainly will become hotties even though they’re still pretty much little kids, but there are a few obvious ones. AnnaSophia Robb, for example. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/70 "2010-07-25T19:49:23Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > For the guys: > > Christian Bale > Leonardo DiCaprio > > The vulnerability that makes a child/teen cute doesn’t translate well for guys trying to become leading men as they grow older. I think Joseph Gordon-Levitt is _ **almost** _ there. ---
**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 25, 2010, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/71 "2010-07-25T21:14:38Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > This list would be much longer if it included actresses who got their start in their teens when they already resembled the adult they’d grow into, like Emma Stone, Amber Heard, Alexis Bledel, Sara Roemer, Hayden Panettiere, etc… Hayden Panettiere had a noticeable role in _Remember the Titans_, which came out when she was 11, and IMDb lists several credits even before that. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/72 "2010-07-25T21:23:24Z")
> [@Snickers](#): > > > [@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. She was incredibly beautiful in The Uninvited as well. Not hot, though. Beautiful like the aurora borealis. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/73 "2010-07-25T21:25:05Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Allison Smith on _[Kate and Allie](http://www.fridaythe13thfilms.com/saga/part9/allisonsmith3.jpg)_. Allison Smith on _[The West Wing](http://www.fridaythe13thfilms.com/saga/part9/allisonsmith.jpg)_. The lovely Ms. Smith & I are about the same age, so I feel comfortable saying she was a banging hottie as a teen, too. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/74 "2010-07-25T22:17:44Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > > [@Superhal](#): > > > > Melissa Gilbert. Yes, that Melissa Gilbert from Little House on the Prairie. > > Well, if we’re going back a few years, Tabitha on the original _Bewtiched_ grew up to look like [this](http://www.superiorpics.com/pictures2/Murphy_JS4400757.jpg). > > (direct link may not work) Here’s a link to [imdb.com](http://imdb.com) that should work for Erin “Tabitha” Murphy: [URL=“[Erin Murphy](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm797808640/nm0614249)”]. She qualifies as a former child actress now hottie in my book! Not to be confused with Lisa Hartman Black, who played Tabitha as an adult and who is also a hottie. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/75 "2010-07-25T23:47:27Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > She was incredibly beautiful in The Uninvited as well. Not hot, though. Beautiful like the aurora borealis. That’s the movie where I first noticed [Arielle Kebbel](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0444223/), who is [smokin’ hot](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bclvq-but2E). (Link to youtube of Maxim photoshoot.) I checked to see if she was a child actress for this thread, but she didn’t get her start until 18. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/76 "2010-07-26T14:34:55Z")
> [@thirdname](#): > > > [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > > > General question on Jodie Foster - can someone explain the change in her breast size from her rather large and ample looking chest in **Panic Room** to the smallish chest she seemed to have in **The Brave One**? (Panic Room was on recently and my wife and I both wondered about this. Neither one of us could come up with an answer) > > Speaking of **Panic Room** , remember the [kid](http://cinegeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/panicroom.jpg) in that movie? I spent half the film trying to figure out if it was a boy or a girl. It turns out that kid was [Kristin Stewart.](http://yossarianspeaks.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/kristen-stewart2.jpg) She was famous as an adult for a while before I heard that she was that girl, and was able to recognize that. > > Seriously, [she could’ve passed as a long-haired boy.](http://www.womensbeautylife.com/albums/Celebrities-HairStyles/Kirsten_Stewart_in_Panic_Room_movie_with_her_short_layered_hair.jpg) :mad: You have now ruined Panic Room for me. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2010, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/77 "2010-09-06T20:54:39Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > > [@EllisDee](#): > > > > This list would be much longer if it included actresses who got their start in their teens when they already resembled the adult they’d grow into, like Emma Stone, Amber Heard, Alexis Bledel, Sara Roemer, Hayden Panettiere, etc… > > Hayden Panettiere had a noticeable role in _Remember the Titans_, which came out when she was 11, and IMDb lists several credits even before that. I remember her as a kid on The Guiding Light. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2010, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/78 "2010-09-06T21:08:13Z")
[Fairuza Balk](http://www.fairuzabalk.net/). Starred in the underrated **Return to Oz** as a child. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Accident](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Mr.Accident](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Accident)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2010, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/79 "2010-09-06T21:44:19Z")
[Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen.](http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/6800000/olsen-twins-3-mary-kate-and-ashley-olsen-6863898-343-450.jpg) Provided you find the right pictures of them. A lot of them they look horrid. Hard to believe those little babies I used to watch on Full House are all grown up now, even if I’m only 5 years older than they are. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2010, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/80 "2010-09-06T21:58:31Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > [Emma Watson](http://gossipteen.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/emma_watson_432x491.jpg) (Hermione from the Harry Potter movies) is 20 years old and growing up very nicely. VERY nicely! Also [AnnaSophia Robb](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1455681/). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068.md?page=5)