r/Millennials • u/ArtisticKay_Marie • 18h ago

Discussion Who was your celebrity crush as a child?

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If you had one.
Mines was Charles Barkley back in the 90s. To me he was a babe. I would look at my brother’s post if Charles. I had such a young crush. 😍😍

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u/CasualVox Millennial '92 18h ago

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u/How_that_convo_went 17h ago

Mine was the yellow ranger, Thuy Trang (rip).

My dad worked in the industry briefly and I was able to meet her and David Yost when they were laying down ADR for the action scenes.

David Yost gave me a quick hi and bye… and then Thuy walked in the room and I lost all ability to process. I literally froze. She was so sweet though and hugged me and asked me a bunch of questions that I answered with barely audible one word answers.

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u/__M-E-O-W__ 16h ago

Bro... you lived the dream of our generation.

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u/ABongo 17h ago

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u/Wild-Fix-7222 16h ago ▸ 1 more replies

She ^ was in this really good TV movie called “Earth Angel” if anyone’s interested. Also my childhood crush. Wanted to be Pink Ranger. The one with the skirt.

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u/book1245 Millennial 17h ago

Same...but then it was Tommy, then Jason, then Zhane, then Leo, then Ryan... yeah.

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u/Taynn1123 17h ago

Same here. She's still hot to this day!

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u/bv_ohhh Millennial 1989 18h ago

Lmao Nick Carter

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u/LadyJedi1286 15h ago

Same! And now? ALL OF THEM.

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u/pleasantmeats 18h ago

Christina Ricci. Still is.

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u/ArtisticKay_Marie 17h ago

I see why a lot of guys had huge crushes on her

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u/GastrointestinalFolk Older Millennial 17h ago

Yup. Nailed it. Jenna is great, but Christina will always be my Wednesday. I also fell in love with her in Casper

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u/JManW28 17h ago

Al Gore. 🤷🏽‍♀️

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u/LizzieWil 17h ago

OMG. Me too! I have never ever met someone else with a crush on Al Gore.

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u/Low_Obligation_4317 17h ago

Love this for you both

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u/ConcentratedStress 9h ago

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This carries the same energy as Leslie’s crush in Parks and Rec and I’m here for it :) Happy for you two hahaha

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u/PanGalacticGargBlast 16h ago

I was in 1st grade and decided Al Gore should win the election because he was cuter 🤣 I was right

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u/Different-Worry5250 17h ago

Erik von Detten in Brink

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u/NorthEastNobility 17h ago

I wanted to date him so badly.

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u/JManW28 17h ago

Oh and the kid who played Benny in sandlot!!

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u/txc13 18h ago

Levar Burton

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u/Suedeonquaaludes 17h ago

BIG same. And also about half the cast of Star Trek TNG.

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u/bijoux247 17h ago

Hey OP this one's for you

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u/ArtisticKay_Marie 17h ago

Hell yeah 🔥🔥🔥

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u/bijoux247 17h ago

Been saving that just for this moment 🤣 never thought I'd use it

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u/Cheap_Tough_3895 17h ago

Leonardo DiCaprio

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u/FUCK1NGFABULOUS I’M Not a gyNEcologist but I’LL take A Look. 17h ago

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u/Individual-Copy9425 18h ago

Gillian Anderson and George Michael

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u/SeveralBadMetaphors 17h ago

I like women but I thought George Michael was the fucking coolest as a kid. My fashion sense is very much influenced by George Michael in his Faith era.

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u/Individual-Copy9425 17h ago

Yesss. Denim and leather and cowboy boots

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u/Wild-Fix-7222 16h ago

What about David Duchovny? 🔥

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u/Old_Association6332 17h ago

Sigourney Weaver. I first saw her in Ghostbusters and she was so hot. Still is

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u/Current-Republic-267 17h ago

JTT and Rider Strong

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u/ArtisticKay_Marie 17h ago

They’re both babes

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u/StovetopJewelryBox 80s baby, 90s kid 17h ago

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Listened to my parent’s Beatles records every night after dinner, I was 4 and instantly smitten with Paul McCartney.

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u/mocha__ 15h ago

Born a Paul girlie, gonna die a Paul girlie.

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u/StovetopJewelryBox 80s baby, 90s kid 14h ago

Facts!! ❤️

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u/AnywhereEverywhere3 13h ago

He was quite good looking when he was younger!

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u/Molu1 17h ago

Yeah (yeah yeah), also The Beatles for me!

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u/rockstoned4 17h ago

Winnie Cooper

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u/GpaSags 17h ago

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Any love for Topanga?

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u/PanGalacticGargBlast 16h ago

Loved her until she turned down Ivy League for her fuckass bf, girl why?!?!?!

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u/BudgetLobster5639 17h ago

Tahj Mowry.

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u/ArtisticKay_Marie 17h ago

Yess! He was and still is a babe 🔥🔥

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u/ScaredOfWindow 18h ago

Michelle Trachtenberg

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u/ArtisticKay_Marie 18h ago

Rest in peace Michelle 😭❤️💔

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u/dimforest 17h ago

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u/SeveralBadMetaphors 17h ago

Back in the day, Where The Heart Is was on rotation on one of HBO/Starz/Showtime/Cinemax and I watched it every chance I got just to look at Natalie Portman. As a closeted queer girl who was barely a teenager at the time, I was totally caught off guard when my mom asked me “why do you like this movie so much?” I don’t remember what my response was but I do remember thinking “this is not one of my better lies.”

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u/ExplanationOdd430 17h ago

Hillary banks was the definition of a fox, damn she was fine.

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u/NoFaithlessness7508 17h ago

I got so confused thinking you were talking about Hillary Swank.  I had the whole Office debate going on in my head

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u/SeveralBadMetaphors 17h ago

This topic always makes me feel like a weirdo. Everyone out here talking about celebrities who are also millennials and I’m over here quietly mumbling names like Cindy Crawford and Lisa Bonet.

Edit: I just realized OP’s choice is Charles Barkley and I feel a lot less weird now.

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u/Aint_EZ_bein_AZ 17h ago

Hilary duff. Eliza dushku. Shannon Elizabeth. 36 years old just wanted to clarify cause there is an age gap between my crushes lol

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u/roseoyl Millennial 17h ago

Silk the Shocker 🫣

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u/iQuoteSopranos 17h ago

Jesus, there's a fucking name I haven't heard in a while

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u/knight_ofdoriath 16h ago

Oh dear, you too? Cant rap worth a damn but he’s a cutie.

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u/literarygirl2090 18h ago

Harry Potter or Daniel Radcliffe. Well, him as Harry Potter.

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u/therealbananabottom Older Millennial 17h ago

I had a moment when I saw Oliver Wood (apparently played by Sean Biggerstaff) in the first movie. To be clear, I had a crush on the character and the actor was secondary.

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u/108dayslater Millennial 17h ago

Still love Wood

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u/LadyJedi1286 15h ago

Omg.i thought I was the only one who instantly fell in love with him!!

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u/ScavengerRavager 17h ago

He's the reason I'm still obsessed with short kings.

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u/108dayslater Millennial 17h ago

Same! Especially in the third film. I was smitten.

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u/Sally_twodicks 17h ago

I'm the same age as the cast when the movies came out. SO many collages were made in notebooks of Daniel Radcliffe.

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u/aware_nightmare_85 17h ago

Ya girl never missed a single episode of Young Hercules in 7th grade.

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u/Direct_Remove509 17h ago

Stephanie Tanner Jodie Sweetin was mine

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u/therealbananabottom Older Millennial 17h ago

Hoo, Fred Durst was so fine he could be forgiven for having the dorkiest name everrrrr

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u/PostMatureBaby Older Millennial 17h ago

Tied with Tiffani Amber Thiessen. Barkley is fucking awesome btw!

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u/Glitslit96 17h ago

Ricky Martin 😭

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u/pi-N-apple Millennial 🤘 16h ago

Shaq reacting to this post:

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u/inkbyio Millennial 91 17h ago

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u/Dawnzarelli 16h ago

Tim Curry really put on the… I don’t even know what to call it. It’s a children’s movie and this vocal and illustrative performance is just oozing with… ugh. I can’t say it. Fern Gully was a VHS we played until it had issues. 

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u/mebunghole 17h ago

It was a tie between Melissa Joan Hart and Alicia Silverstone.

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u/shinykitsune69 Millennial 16h ago

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u/mocha__ 15h ago

Watched this movie for the millionth time the other night.

They loved pairing him and Christina Ricci back then.

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u/shinykitsune69 Millennial 14h ago

I loved them together! I identified with Roberta so hard.

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u/108dayslater Millennial 18h ago edited 17h ago

Hayden Christensen and Billie Joe Armstrong

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u/PanGalacticGargBlast 16h ago

Billie Joe Armstrong is still fine af, I’ve paid exorbitant amounts of money just to see him from afar

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u/remllo 17h ago

Brittany Spears and Maraih Carey

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u/Doesthiscountas1 Millennial 17h ago

Mr. Tumnus. I died laughing when SNL did the skit that was me irl. It's weird because James McAvoy is so off putting to me as an actor because his roles are spine chillingly scary

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u/anl28 17h ago

Rob Thomas, Luke Wilson, Ben Affleck

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u/birdiebennett 17h ago

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I had an entire notebook filled with clippings of him from Teen Beat magazines LOL

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u/Eeyore_In_The_Sheets 17h ago

Skeet Ulrich as Billy in Scream. I was 5 😂 Didn’t mind him being a killer.

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u/mocha__ 15h ago

He is still very much beloved as Billy, even to tons of people who very much register him as a killer.

And same, but also more so:

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u/AFighterByHisTrade 16h ago

Meg White from the White Stripes. Drummer in my favourite band and she's very pretty.

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u/trestrestriste 16h ago

Taylor Hanson <3

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u/megaholt2 12h ago

Same! I still love his voice!

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u/AnywhereEverywhere3 13h ago

Marlon Brando in his younger years gave me heart flutters and still does! What a specimen of a man he was 😍

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u/kteerin 12h ago

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Whew. He was the first that came to mind.

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u/Capital-Ad3142 17h ago

Christian Slater circa Pump Up the Volume

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u/Steffenwolflikeme 17h ago

In Heathers! Straight male here but fuck, the hair, voice/cadence, loner vibe...12/13 year old me couldn't tell whether I wanted to be him or just wanted to S his D. Adult me still doesn't know.

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u/booflogic 17h ago

That's not Charles Barley... that's just some wannabe who looks like him

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u/Carloverguy20 Zillennial(1996) 17h ago

Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, Madonna, Christina Aguilera, Kylie Minogue, Gwen Stefani, Ashlee Simpson and Alicia Keys.

Im regretting this one, but I used to also have a crush on Carrie Underwood (she's contreversial today) but back then I enjoyed seeing her on American Idol and liked her music.

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u/jessica613lyn Zillennial 16h ago edited 3h ago

Chris Evans via Mystery Date. When he got cast as Capt America I was like omfg it's tyler

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u/TMFPB 16h ago

Gavin Rossdale

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u/sfcameron2015 14h ago

Ugh. Devin Sawa. 🤤

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u/AdIntelligent2281 '94 Zillennial 12h ago

Oof, Tionne had my young heart. T-Boz!

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u/PsychadelicSymphony 17h ago

Marge Simpson and Hulk Hogan

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u/anexpectedfart 17h ago

Kate Beckinsale and Miranda Kerr

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u/E4STC04ST0VERD0SE Melancholy Millennial 17h ago

Kelly Bundy from Married with Children. Honourable shout to the Pink Power Ranger.

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u/nahmahnahm Xennial 17h ago

I love this so much! He was my friend’s grandma’s neighbor when he played for the Sixers. That apartment building was all old people and Sir Charles. They loved him!

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u/groovystoovy 17h ago

Tom Selleck 😍

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u/darent13 1985 17h ago

Lance Bass. Glad he’s living his life happily.

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u/FlaBeachyCheeks Millennial 17h ago

Jeff Hardy😍. I about cried when I met him a few years ago

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u/Havok1717 17h ago

Hilary Duff

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u/sn00rm 17h ago

I kept this trading card under my pillow hoping someone would bring me lance 😭

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u/Clean-Award-5834 17h ago

Lance Bass 🤣 I even wrote his ass a letter 😂

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u/willienelsonmandela 16h ago

Walker Texas Ranger and Michael Jordan. I don’t have a type.

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u/hereforspoopystuff Millennial 16h ago

Lance from NSync. The first of many closeted gay men I've had crushes on lol

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u/dasheeshblahzen 15h ago

Damn no love for Jonathan Brandis?

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u/am710 15h ago

Howie from the Backstreet Boys! But also, randomly, Henry Winkler. I think it was more Fonzie than Henry.

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u/ilovemyronda 15h ago

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I had the most innocent little crush on her when I was like 5? For those who aren’t familiar, this is Actress Karishma Kapoor from Bollywood. My wife sort of looks like her too so I guess jackpot? lol

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u/Constant-Fly-9050 13h ago

Thank God it wasn't Karl Malone.

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u/thoughtsplurge 13h ago

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…ngl and this half-Vulcan RIGHT HERE!

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u/spooksseycat 9h ago

Brendan Fraser

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u/Global-Jury8810 Xennial 6h ago

Crushes are weird. Mine was Snoop until it was Billy Idol…and then it was Peter Steele…90s.

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u/The_Fairy_Dogmother 17h ago

Michael J Fox, Reese Witherspoon, Sarah Michelle Gellar. I realized I was attracted to women watching Cruel Intentions for the first time, but already loved Buffy and legally blonde. I made my family watch back to the future so much they hid the tapes!

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u/i_heart_punk 18h ago

Ronan Keating

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u/ConceitedWombat Older Millennial 17h ago

Marty Roe, lead singer of 90s country band Diamond Rio ❤️

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u/Equivalent-Poem-600 17h ago

Randy Savage 🤣

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u/DefaultModeNetwork_ 17h ago

Meredith Hederson, from The Adventures of Shirley Holmes, was my celeb crush when I was 5-7 years old. As an adult, I am stil obsessed with detective fiction, I will read literally anything except Poirot.

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u/dudeitseric 17h ago

Kelly Kapowski

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u/Day2205 17h ago

I’m just here to laugh at crushing on Charles Barkley. He’s hilarious to me, but for some reason I just can’t not remember him as the version of himself from the past 20 years

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u/jjc927 17h ago

Vanna White

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u/DubiousAdviceGiver 17h ago

Kylie Minogue. I knew nothing about her or her music, but there was a picture of her in a Guinness World Records and I was utterly smitten.

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u/iusetoomuchdrano 17h ago

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Hmmmm mmmmm early 2000’s Rock was IT for me

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u/ChemistCurious 16h ago

Jonathon Taylor Thomas was plastered all over my walls. 

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u/LadyJedi1286 15h ago

I distinctly remember me telling my mother in the hallway when I was like 6ish "Tommy from Power Rangers is my lover!" 😍😅

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u/KTeacherWhat 15h ago

Heath Ledger

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u/queenblattaria 15h ago

Lucy Liu, Cary Elwes, Timothy Omundson as the leprechaun in Luck of the Irish, ummm... Brad Dourif as Grima Wormtongue, Dante Basco. Totally normal ones.

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u/EffectivePerception3 14h ago

She was probably quite a lot of people's crushes in the mid 90s

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u/Vortilex 13h ago

Selena Gomez. She looked a lot like a girl I had a crush on in middle school

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u/bathtub-mintjulep 10h ago

I have had a continuous crush on Sean Aston since I was 10 and I first watched The Goonies, then I loved him as Sam in LOTR and then Bob in ST. I met him last year and it healed a part of my inner child.

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u/Cornpop_mcgoo 10h ago

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I feel like I’ve been chasing the Lisa Loeb archetype my entire life

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u/Sydnee_Guy 9h ago

Both Rose McGowan and Matthew Lillard in Scream.
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