# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2010, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/81 "2010-09-06T22:26:14Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > > [@AWB](#): > > > > The ones that have caught my notice: > > > > [ul] > > [li][Brenda Song (London Tipton)](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm604543744/nm0814259)[/li][li][Emily Osment (Lilly Truscott)](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2329379584/nm0652089)[/li][li][Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman)](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1513856256/nm0690125)[/li][li][Jodie Sweetin (Stephanie Tanner)](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3808400640/nm0842332)[/li][/ul] > > After a little quick IMDb research, Jodie Sweetin is twice divorced, and the other three are all tiny (none above 5’3"). The “tiny” makes sense and it’s true for kid male actors as well. A small actor can often portray significantly younger while being more mature and easier to direct. I can barely think of any successful male kid actors over 6 feet tall as adults. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2010, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/82 "2010-09-06T22:33:11Z")
> [@Mr.Accident](#): > > [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. I’m not certain those are recent pics. In most of the pics I’ve seen of them one of them looks “heroin chic” thin, and they both are aging hard and fast. Possibly they are naturally thin, but they do not look particularly healthy in any recent pics I’ve seen. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2010, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/83 "2010-09-06T23:49:53Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > > [@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) > > \*\*Panic Room \*\*was shot shortly after Foster gave birth thereby explaining the apparent expansion in cup size. > > (Don’t ask me how and why I know this.) How and WHY do you know this? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2010, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/84 "2010-09-06T23:52:00Z")
About the only one nobody’s mentioned that I crushed on as a kid is Krystyne Haje, Simone from “Head of the Class” ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/85 "2010-09-07T01:40:33Z")
> [@astro](#): > > > [@Mr.Accident](#): > > > > [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. > > I’m not certain those are recent pics. In most of the pics I’ve seen of them one of them looks “heroin chic” thin, and they both are aging hard and fast. Possibly they are naturally thin, but they do not look particularly healthy in any recent pics I’ve seen. One of them (Mary-Kate, I think) had some much-publicized struggles with anorexia. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2010, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/86 "2010-09-07T02:13:13Z")
> [@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. And _ **after** _ that, but still not yet a teen, she was the little girl who showed up on the doorstep claiming to be the long-lost daughter Ally McBeal never knew existed (or IS she?). Stuck around for, what, eleven episodes? I think she qualifies without any trouble even before we mention JOE SOMEBODY. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/87 "2010-09-07T02:45:11Z")
> [@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. Great voice work as Dot in “A Bug’s Life.” ---
**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:** [September 7, 2010, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/88 "2010-09-07T18:10:30Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > > [@thirdname](#): > > > > 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. This is a sign of how old I am. I’m old enough to remember a child actress who’s now old enough to have played the mother of a child actress who herself has since grown up enough to be an adult hottie. This isn’t like finding out your prom date is now a grandmother. This is like finding out your prom date’s granddaughter started college last month. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/89 "2010-09-07T18:46:57Z")
Alicia Witt. From annoying little snot in _Dune_ to super hottie in _Urban Legend_ and _Ally McBeal_. If Linsay Lohan gets to be on the list, then certainly Britney Spears does too. There’s some speculation that Dakota Fanning might be there when she comes of age. Anyone who’s seen _The Runaways_ knows she’s already there. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/90 "2010-09-07T19:15:35Z")
[Elizabeth Taylor](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qIEoGrSY8M) ---
**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:** [September 7, 2010, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/91 "2010-09-07T23:57:24Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > If Linsay Lohan gets to be on the list, then certainly Britney Spears does too. I guess Britney Spears qualifies from the Mickey Mouse club, right? Lindsay Lohan qualifies to a much larger extent, having had the starring role in The Parent Trap as a child and then the starring role in Mean Girls as a hottie, both major motion picture releases. Britney Spears’ first movie she was no longer a child. Television of course counts, but that Mickey Mouse club thing was more about singing and dancing than acting. If that qualifies, I suppose we add Christina Aguilera to the list, but more importantly the paltry guys list gets to add Justin Timberlake. I personally don’t look at it that way, though. In my mind it’d be like including Tiger Woods. Being a child prodigy is different than being a child star. The other thing against TMMC is that it was only ever watched by children, and of course children have no taste. The Parent Trap was a million times higher profile and better production. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/92 "2010-09-08T00:03:18Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > There’s some speculation that Dakota Fanning might be there when she comes of age. Her sister Elle Fanning is going to be [cute](http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/15300000/Franco-Origlia-photoshoot-elle-fanning-15341045-396-594.jpg), too. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2010, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/93 "2010-09-08T00:18:19Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > Lindsay Lohan qualifies to a much larger extent,… The thread title is “child actresses who are now adult hotties.” I don’t think she qualifies. Lohan Syndrome can affect anyone; won’t you please give generously. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_In\_Black](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@The\_Man\_In\_Black](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_In_Black)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/94 "2010-09-08T00:33:58Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > > [@EllisDee](#): > > > > Lindsay Lohan qualifies to a much larger extent,… > > The thread title is “child actresses who are now adult hotties.” I don’t think she qualifies. > > Lohan Syndrome can affect anyone; won’t you please give generously. Hey, I just saw her in Machete. She is hot. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2010, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/95 "2010-09-08T00:34:29Z")
Hah, true, and now the quoted statement makes sense. “If Linsay Lohan gets to be on the list, then certainly Britney Spears does too.” hehheh. ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/96 "2010-09-09T12:11:51Z")
The archetypical child actress becoming an adult hottie is Tatiana M. Ali, the youngest sister on Fresh Prince of Bel-Aire. My friend Mav and I knew that she was going to grow up fine, and we were proven correct. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/97 "2010-09-09T13:59:45Z")
I had a boycrush\* on Melissa Joan Hart from “Clarissa Explains It All” up to “Sabrina the Teenage Witch”. Although she was WAY past her teenage years when that show was on. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2010, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/98 "2010-09-09T14:16:01Z")
Lohan was ten when she played Ali Fowler on Another World. Yasmin Bleeth, the Baywatch hottie, played Ryan Fenelli on Ryan’s Hope. Melissa has been mentioned, but what about Sara Gilbert? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/99 "2010-09-09T15:04:31Z")
What about Pebbles? I hear she’s still hot. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_In\_Black](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@The\_Man\_In\_Black](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_In_Black)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068/100 "2010-09-09T22:25:03Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Lohan was ten when she played Ali Fowler on Another World. Yasmin Bleeth, the Baywatch hottie, played Ryan Fenelli on Ryan’s Hope. > > Melissa has been mentioned, but what about Sara Gilbert? I agree with Sara Gilbert. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2010-child-actresses-that-are-now-adult-hotties/547068.md?page=6)