# Your Celebrity Crushes: As A Kid, Teenager And Today **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 20, 2010, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crushes-as-a-kid-teenager-and-today/554374 "2010-09-20T06:28:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crushes-as-a-kid-teenager-and-today/554374/61 "2010-09-26T01:52:20Z")
> [@installLSC](#): > > …I thought Betty Grable [was] way hotter than whatever the teen idols of the day were… Back when the fake Hitler diaries were big news in the early Eighties, I remember _The New Yorker_ had a cartoon showing a bunch of stuffy academics reading aloud from them. The caption was, “Dear Diary: When I have conquered America, I must meet Betty Grable. What a tomato!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crushes-as-a-kid-teenager-and-today/554374/62 "2010-09-26T01:58:05Z")
As a kid: Leelee Sobieski from _Jungle to Jungle_ (holy crap she’s nearly 30 now… I feel old). Teen/adult: Rebecca Hall from _The Prestige_ and _The Town_ (holy crap she’s the same age as Leelee! Funny coincidence). ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crushes-as-a-kid-teenager-and-today/554374/63 "2010-09-26T05:09:09Z")
> [@kath94](#): > > Adult: John Barrowman, David Tennant, Alan Rickman. Yes, I’m old. And I’ve got a thing for accents. I’ll definitely agree with you on Barrowman and Tennant. And the accents. Is there anything sexier than Tennant talking??? Add Christopher Eccleston to the mix and that takes care of adult for me. 😛 Kid: David Hedison and David McCallum Teen: Chad Everett, David Soul, James Brolin ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crushes-as-a-kid-teenager-and-today/554374/64 "2010-09-26T17:22:15Z")
Kid: David Yost (the blue ranger in The Power Rangers), and Jonathan Taylor Thomas. I think both have come out recently, which amuses the hell out of me for some reason. Teenager: Orlando Bloom, Elijah Wood…hell, half the male cast of Lord of the Rings. Also, Sean Biggerstaff, the dude who played Oliver Wood in the Harry Potter movies. Adult: Zachary Quinto (“That guy who was Spock in the last Star Trek movie,” **dangermom** :D), Christian Bale, Paul Bettany, Hugh Jackman, and Adrien Brody. ---
**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 26, 2010, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crushes-as-a-kid-teenager-and-today/554374/65 "2010-09-26T17:45:57Z")
As a kid: The girl who played DJ on Full House. Julia Roberts. As a teen: Pretty much any girl from Saved by the Bell, but especially the one that played Kelly. Julia Roberts As an adult: Eliza Dushku. Anne Hathaway. Julie Andrews. (I don’t care if she is 27 years older than me. She’s hot.) Julia Roberts. Jamie Lee Curtis. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crushes-as-a-kid-teenager-and-today/554374/66 "2010-09-26T17:58:14Z")
Kid: Valerie Bertinelli and Maryann on _Gilligan’s Island._ Teen: Diana Ross (THAT album) and Rachel Ward (_The Thornbirds_) Now: Don’t really have any, it’s transient. Jessica Alba was hot in _Dark Angel_. I guess the most recent was Morena Baccarin from _Firefly._ ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crushes-as-a-kid-teenager-and-today/554374/67 "2010-09-26T18:01:23Z")
As a kid: Michael Jackson. As a teen I was more realistic and knew celebs were out of my reach so it was just the boys in school. As an adult: Yun-Fat Chow, Bono, and a host of other bits of eye-candy. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crushes-as-a-kid-teenager-and-today/554374/68 "2010-09-26T18:52:12Z")
As I kid - I can’t remember. So I’ll go for the earliest Crush I can remember - Alicia Silverstone (I am guessing I was somewhere around 13 when I had that crush, but I could be way off) As a Teen - I had LOTS of crushes so I’ll pick one of the more memorable ones - Shannon Miller (US Gymnast) As an Adult - Again, more than one. So I’ll plump for Scarlett Johansson. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crushes-as-a-kid-teenager-and-today/554374/69 "2010-09-26T20:24:02Z")
> [@Mr.Accident](#): > > Jamie Lee Curtis. Those Activia commercials will give anyone the hots… ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2010, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crushes-as-a-kid-teenager-and-today/554374/70 "2010-09-30T05:47:40Z")
As a kid, my first “celebrity” crushes were around age 5, on Bernadette and Edith, two of the girls on “Zoom” (Anyone remember “Zoom”?). As a teenager, I had a crush on Liz and Jean Sagal, the twin actresses who starred in the mercifully short-lived sitcom “Double Trouble.” As an adult? Maggie Cheung in “Irma Vep.” Rowr. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crushes-as-a-kid-teenager-and-today/554374.md?page=3)