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Wow, teenagers once looked significantly younger
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Dead Prince
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unless you come from disney.
And the breasts are growing.
realraptor
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Disney picks young looking kids.
Winterfang
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It varies from person to person. I've seen old pictures of me and friends and some look very old.
diggmcbadass
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Pretty much this.
Probably just the outfits and hair styles.
GuitarAtomik
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I can't really say whether I agree or disagree with you, but TV is not a great barometer for judging ages.
Does anyone have some sort of study that backs this theory up properly? I've always been open to the possibility but every documentary/site about this that I've been linked to was some conspiracy nut crap with zero evidence to back it up :I
One literally suggested that the chemicals of our enviroment make men more feminine and that the guvamint is trying to destroy the male sex by polluting our enviroment with those chemicals on purpose.
QuiteWhittle
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After graduating high school, I am still surprised that I never saw a single teenager look as old as the teenagers on most television programs.
That's because they get people in their 20s to play teens. TV's really screwed up peoples' perception of what a 16 year-old actually looks like.
:lol
Not all of them though.
And tanning sucks ass, why are people obsessed with it? I'm all about them alabaster chicks aww yiss.
Back when that show was current, you watched it and saw Clarissa and pals as roughly equal to yourself in age, and perceived yourselves as adult. Now that you are an actual adult, you can see that a 16 year old is still a child. This effect continues as you age, but with diminishing returns. I'm 46 years old now, and anyone under 25 looks like a little brat to me.
CreepingFear
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Younger people are looking older and older people are looking younger. Plastic surgery, how you dress, and makeup all can make a huge difference.
D.Lo
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The OC as funny, because Mischa Barton was actually 16, but the boyfriend guy Ryan was like 27, I saw him on some show the other day and he looks soooooooo old now.
Gabrielle Carteris was like 68 when she played a high schooler in Beverly Hills 90210
AlimNassor
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Wasn't Clarissa's actor in her 20s?
Nope, she was 14-15 when she started the show. IIRC, she was pretty close to her character's age on the show. She was in her 20s for Sabrina later.
endresults
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According to wikipeeds, MJH was born in '76, so she was a teenager during Clarissa ('91-'94) and in her twenties for Sabrina ('96-'03).
Ten years later, she's in her thirties and trying to get kickstarters off the ground by offering to allow a select few lucky souls to be BFF's on Twitter for a year.
Ten years later, she's in her thirties and trying to get kickstarters off the ground by offering to allow a select few lucky souls to be BFF's on Twitter for a year.
Dog food is delicious
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Greg Oden in HS on the left
To be fair, he might be a teenager in the picture but his knees have reached middle age.
sixteen-bit
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It's common for older actors to play teenagers.
Revolutionary
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I was a groomsman in a wedding last month, and the bridesmaid I was partnered up with looked like she was at least 18... turns out she was actually 14. Shit is crazy.
Oh wow, I was totally fooled by that!
Why did they do that to him? I thought it was a totally different actor at first!
Chance Hale
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Just depends on the generation or group I suppose. When leaving Jr. High I noticed the people coming in looked significantly younger than the vast majority of us leaving had. It was kind of odd.
Perhaps we were an odd bunch though, the most beautiful person I've seen to this day remains one of my 15 year old classmates who looked to be in her 20s.
Perhaps we were an odd bunch though, the most beautiful person I've seen to this day remains one of my 15 year old classmates who looked to be in her 20s.
"Oh god, is that what is going to happen to my hairline?" He asks, in a previous season after finding out Gob is his father.
perfectchaos007
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That's one thing us short people are generally blessed with, looking young for our age.
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probably fashion. they look young because they're wearing what you wore/saw people wear when you were/felt way younger.
friskykillface
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facial hair and stern looks do wonders. We used to practice looking older in highschool.
TabletopTictacs
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I've been described as a 14 year old Neil Patrick Harris on Gaf and I'm 20 next week.. If we're looking older then I think I missed the train.
Horsemama1956
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people born at an earlier date will look younger then people born at an older date hence the difference
teruterubozu
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I maintain that Napoleon Dymanite contains the most realistic portrayal of high schoolers and high school culture that I've ever seen in a movie. Pretty sure those people were actual teenagers(maybe minus Napoleon himself, not sure how old he was there).
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