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24-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
'80s Female Celebs, Then And Now
One of my all-time favourite activities is seeing what famous celebs looked like years ago. There's just something so mind-bending about seeing their transformations. So for a bit of nostalgia and fun, I thought I'd compile a ton of "then and now" photos of female from a decade that needs no introduction: the '80s. You'll definitely recognize some of the ladies on this list, so get ready for some surprises. And you'll also have to tell me what you think afterward in the comments below. They were gorgeous then, and they're gorgeous now! Ready to see some '80s beauties? Here's Michelle Pfeiffer from Scarface in the '80s: And here she is today: Here is Meg Ryan from When Harry Met Sally in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Molly Ringwald from The Breakfast Club and Pretty In Pink in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Kim Basinger from 9½ Weeks and Batman (1989) in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Debra Winger from An Officer and a Gentleman and Terms of Endearment in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Phoebe Cates from Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Paradise in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Stevie Nicks from the band Fleetwood Mac in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Elizabeth Shue from The Karate Kid and Cocktail in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is model Cindy Crawford in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Lea Thompson from the Back to the Future trilogy in the '80s: Here is Heather Locklear from Melrose Place and Dynasty in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Catherine Bach from The Dukes of Hazzard in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Heather Thomas from The Fall Guy and Zapped! in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Nancy McKeon from The Facts of Life in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is singer Diana Ross, known for "Endless Love" and "I'm Coming Out," in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Ally Sheedy from The Breakfast Club and WarGames in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Kelly McGillis from Top Gun in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Kelly LeBrock from The Woman in Red and Weird Science in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Jennifer Beals from Flashdance in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Geena Davis from Beetlejuice and Thelma & Louise in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Diane Lane from The Outsiders in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Christie Brinkley from National Lampoon's Vacation in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Jennifer Grey from Dirty Dancing and Ferris Bueller's Day Off in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Goldie Hawn from Overboard in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Jackée Harry from 227 in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Jaclyn Smith from Charlie's Angels and The Night They Saved Christmas in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Catherine Mary Stewart from Night of the Comet and Weekend at Bernie's in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is singer Janet Jackson, known for "That's the Way Love Goes" and "State of the World," in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Rebecca De Mornay from Risky Business and Feds in the '80s: Here is Jennifer Jason Leigh from Fast Times at Ridgemont High in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Lysette Anthony from Krull and Ivanhoe in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Lisa Bonet (AKA Lilakoi Moon, AKA Zoë Kravitz's mom) from The Cosby Show and A Different World in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Diane Franklin from The Last American Virgin and Better Off Dead in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Bo Derek from Tarzan, the Ape Man and Bolero in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Betsy Russell from Private School and Tomboy in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Melanie Griffith from Working Girl and Body Double in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is singer Joan Jett, known for "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" and "Bad Reputation," in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Daryl Hannah from Splash and Steel Magnolias in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Deborah Foreman from Valley Girl and April Fool's Day in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Nastassja Kinski from Paris, Texas and Tess in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Ann Jillian from It's a Living and Mr. Mom in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Sean Young from No Way Out and Blade Runner in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Sissy Spacek from Carrie and Coal Miner's Daughter in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Debbie Allen from Fame and A Different World in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is The Go-Go's singer Belinda Carlisle, also known for "Heaven Is a Place on Earth" and "Our Lips Are Sealed," in the '80s: Who's your favourite bombshell from the '80s? Which celeb's transformation shocked you the most? Tell me all your thoughts in the comments below! And there's lots more where this came from — so check out BuzzFeed Canada on TikTok and Instagram!
Yahoo
21-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'80s Icons Make a Strong Political Statement With a Pretty in Pink/ Some Kind of Wonderful Crossover
'80s Icons Make a Strong Political Statement With a Pretty in Pink/ Some Kind of Wonderful Crossover originally appeared on Parade. Jon Cryer and Lea Thompson joined forces this weekend, a first for the two '80s icons. Cryer, who famously played Ducky in the 1986 John Hughes classic Pretty in Pink before gaining TV fame on Two and a Half Men, is known for sharing his political views on social media. On Sunday, he was joined by '80s teen queen Lea Thompson—best known as Lorraine in Back to the Future and Amanda in Some Kind of Wonderful—for a 'No Kings' rally in Los a photo shared to Cryer's social media, he captioned the moment, 'Me and @lea_thompson bringing you the Pretty in Pink/Some Kind of Wonderful crossover you've been waiting for at the downtown Los Angeles #NoKingsDay protest.' In the photo, the two ageless, politically active actors smile together while holding protest signs and the American flag. Star Wars fans quickly took notice of Cryer's T-shirt, which read 'I Have Friends Everywhere'—a line from Andor, part of the Star Wars was among the first to comment on Cryer's post, writing, 'A pleasure to march with you, sir.' Other fans chimed in with their own photos and stories from protests across the country. 🎬SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox🎬 '80s Icons Make a Strong Political Statement With a Pretty in Pink/ Some Kind of Wonderful Crossover first appeared on Parade on Jun 16, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jun 16, 2025, where it first appeared.


The Sun
15-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Eighties movie icon unrecognisable as he poses with daughter before her prom – can you guess who?
HE was a wide-eyed floppy-haired heartthrob in the 80s who was reluctantly labelled part of the Brat Pack. His rapid rise to superstardom coincided with his breakout role as moody Washington Post journalist Kevin Dolenz in classic coming-of-age film St Elmo's Fire. 3 Now 62, the actor is still considered one of the greatest young stars of all time with Pretty in Pink and Weekend at Bernie's also among his credits. And while he might be a little more mature in appearance, Andrew McCarthy's charm still shines through in a new snap with his daughter Willow, 18, ahead of her prom. He couldn't help but joke about one of his famous films, quipping, "she did not wear pink". Willow, who is from Andrew's second marriage to writer Dolores Rice, made her dad beam with pride as they posed for the sweet snap. Though the father and daughter duo are close, she has no interest in watching the films that made her dad a star. Speaking to The Times last year, Andrew said, "Some of her friends told her to watch Pretty in Pink. But she saw a trailer and said, 'I don't want to watch you kissing some other person.' I think that's a perfectly appropriate response.' Andrew and Dolores also have a son called Rowan, 11, while the actor has a son called Sam, 23, from his first marriage to college sweetheart Carol Schneider. Back in 2013, he gushed about fatherhood in a blog post, writing, "Like most parents, I believe my children to be more dynamic, more charming, funnier, smarter, more perceptive and sensitive, more athletic, and more beautiful than other people's children. 'I love my children. At this moment they still adore us. It's a lovely time of life.' Just days ago Andrew was in the UK where he managed to watch his fellow New Jersey native Bruce Springsteen play at Anfield Stadium, Liverpool. He even managed to gab a selfie with The Boss backstage, topping off an unforgettable night. Music lover Andrew was also over the moon to witness Beatle Sir Paul McCartney appearing as a guest in his hometown performing Can't Buy Me Love. Last year he released the documentary Brats on Disney+, which revisited his fraught relationship with the Brat Pack. The Pack - coined by a New York magazine article in 1985 - was a collection of young, talented and, in some cases, wild American stars of the era. Among its ranks were Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Tom Cruise, Nicolas Cage, Sean Penn, Emilio Estevez and Matt Dillon. Andrew made his feelings clear on the title, telling The Times: "Who wants to be called a brat? Who wants to be lumped into a pack? The public went, 'Oh my God, we love that!' Whereas the industry perceived it as a very negative indictment.' At the same time his star was soaring, Andrew had an addiction to alcohol, which he eventually sought help for in 1992. 3 3 He began drinking when he was 12 and insists he'd have abused booze irrespective of his fame. 'I abused alcohol — that's no secret," he said. "I just got to drink better vodka because I was in the movies. It affected my career, and it took me several years to realise I had a problem.' He's now been sober for 33 years. Though he has landed roles consistently through the 90s and noughties, he hasn't recaptured the same level of fame that both blessed and cursed him in the 80s. Notable recent roles on TV include Orange Is The New Black, 13 Reasons Why and Gossip Girl.


Buzz Feed
12-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Here's A Full Breakdown Of Molly Ringwald's Disturbing Experience Of Being An ‘80s Child Star After She Admitted It Was 'Peculiar' To Be Director John Hughes's Muse As A Minor
This article mentions sexual assault. Back in the '80s, there was little more synonymous in pop culture than director John Hughes and teen actor Molly Ringwald, with Molly the star of three of John's biggest movies: Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Pretty In Pink. Molly was just 15 years old when she filmed the first of the trio in 1984, and suffice to say, aspects of all of them did not age well. In 2018, Molly actually publicly called out the 'inappropriate' nature of the films in an article for the New Yorker, where she wrote of Sixteen Candles: 'Back then, I was only vaguely aware of how inappropriate much of John's writing was, given my limited experience and what was considered normal at the time.' 'I'm a little embarrassed to say that it took even longer for me to fully comprehend the scene late in Sixteen Candles, when the dreamboat, Jake, essentially trades his drunk girlfriend, Caroline, to the Geek, to satisfy the latter's sexual urges, in return for Samantha's underwear,' she went on. 'The Geek takes Polaroids with Caroline to have proof of his conquest; when she wakes up in the morning with someone she doesn't know, he asks her if she 'enjoyed it.' (Neither of them seems to remember much.) Caroline shakes her head in wonderment and says, 'You know, I have this weird feeling I did,'" Molly continued. 'She had to have a feeling about it, rather than a thought, because thoughts are things we have when we are conscious, and she wasn't,' the star added, before asking: 'How are we meant to feel about art that we both love and oppose? What if we are in the unusual position of having helped create it?' And in a recent appearance on the Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky podcast, Molly, now 57, has reflected some more on this movie — namely, the fact that then-34-year-old John wrote Sixteen Candles specifically for her after seeing her headshot, with Molly now admitting that it was 'peculiar' for her to be a grown man's muse at just 15. Discussing how the movie came about, Molly said that she'd already starred in the 1982 movie Tempest by this point, and had taken some new headshots for her agency. She said of John: 'He wrote [ Sixteen Candles ] just based on the headshot.' 'He put [the headshot] up on his bulletin board above his computer station, and he wrote this movie,' she went on. 'So, when it came time to cast it, they said: 'Who do you want?' He said: 'The girl that I wrote this about.'' Monica then asked Molly if she was aware of this at the time, and Molly said: 'In terms of: 'Did I know that I was a muse?' I mean, he told me that story but, y'know, I had nothing really to compare it to. I was still only 15 years old, so I didn't have a lot of life experience. It didn't seem that strange to me… I mean, now it does.' The host pressed if Molly meant 'strange' in a 'complimentary' way, or in a 'weird' and 'creepy' way, to which Molly laughed before diplomatically replying: 'Yeah, it's peculiar.' 'It's complimentary,' she quickly added. 'It always felt incredibly complimentary. But, yeah. Looking back on it, there is something a little peculiar.' Molly insisted that she didn't want to 'disparage' John, who died in 2009 at 59 years old, in any way, and acknowledged: 'It's complex, it's definitely complex. And it's something that I turn over in my head a lot and try to figure out how that all affected me — and I feel like I'm still processing all of that, and I probably will until the day I die.' Later in the interview, Molly admitted that she struggled with being famous at such a young age as she recalled a disturbing incident with the paparazzi when she was just a teenager. The star explained that she'd had 'varying degrees of fame' for her entire life, as she used to perform on stage with her dad when she was 3 years old. Ron Galella / Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images "I've never known a world where I haven't been a little famous,' she began. 'At a certain point, I became really, really famous. When you're on the cover of Time magazine, I think when it gets to that point, then it becomes a level of fame that I, personally, don't feel that comfortable with. Even though I was happy with the movies that I was doing and I loved the work of actually doing it, but all the fame and the notoriety outside of that, I found it really overwhelming and scary.' "It changed me a bit,' Molly confessed. 'Maybe this is just who I am, but there was a part of it where I became very closed and very self-protective in a way that a lot of people misinterpreted — people thought that I was aloof or stuck up, and it wasn't, it was fear and being very self-protective. This was when I was a teenager, when I started to make the John Hughes movies.' Asked if there was a specific turning point for her, Molly recalled: 'I was chased by the paparazzi and they trapped me in a revolving door in a hotel. The flashes kept going off, and you know how disorientating the flashes are, but then I was also in a revolving door that just kept turning and turning and turning. That was terrifying for me.' Ron Galella / Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images 'Still to this day, when I go to a red carpet event or something, and there's the flash, my heart starts to race,' she shared. 'And I get scared. I've done it enough now, nothing bad is gonna happen. It's just people taking my picture, but there was just something really frightening for me at that age because I was still, like, a baby." After completing work on Sixteen Candles, John cast Molly and her costar Anthony Michael Hall in The Breakfast Club, which was released the following year. While this is widely regarded as one of the most iconic films of the '80s, it also has some problematic aspects that Molly addressed in her 2018 essay after watching the movie with her then-10-year-old daughter Mathilda in 2018. Molly was 16 when she played so-called 'princess' Claire in The Breakfast Club, the most popular and beautiful girl in school. Throughout the movie, Claire is relentlessly teased and harassed by John Bender, played by Judd Nelson, who detests everything Claire represents. Despite this, Claire kisses him at the end of the film. And in her New Yorker piece, Molly called out Bender's behavior and the example that it set, writing: 'Bender sexually harasses Claire throughout the film. When he's not sexualizing her, he takes out his rage on her with vicious contempt, calling her 'pathetic,' mocking her as 'Queenie.' It's rejection that inspires his vitriol.' 'He never apologizes for any of it, but, nevertheless, he gets the girl in the end,' she added, also recalling that her mom was upset with a scene where Bender looks up Claire's skirt and seemingly touches her inappropriately without her consent. Referencing the fact that a body double was used for the upskirt shot of Claire's underwear, Molly wrote: 'They couldn't even ask me to do it — I don't think it was permitted by law to ask a minor — but even having another person pretend to be me was embarrassing to me and upsetting to my mother, and she said so. That scene stayed, though.' Universal / ©Universal/courtesy Everett / Everett Collection Molly previously said that her experience as a child star prevented her from letting Mathilda follow the same path, despite her desperately wanting to. She told the Times: 'She fought us on that — she's still kind of mad about it, but it was the right decision. I don't think that professional acting is a great way for kids to grow up. It's way too stressful, and it's a crap shoot on whether or not the kids can make it through.' And Molly reflected on her complex feelings towards her experiences as a teen actor during her recent podcast appearance, where she said: 'I wouldn't have the career I have if it wasn't for those movies, and I feel like I have a lot of privilege being in those. I don't want to come across as corny; I'm very conscious that people [are] dealing with much bigger issues than me, but it's still a lot to grapple with.' Monica then mentioned Molly's 2017 New Yorker article 'All The Other Harvey Weinsteins,' which was written in response to the #MeToo movement. In the article, Molly said that she only worked with disgraced movie producer Harvey once, at 20 years old, but was 'lucky' as she believes that, at the time, she 'was the one with more power' because Harvey was yet to reach the level of acclaim that he eventually became renowned for. However, this does not mean that Molly got away unscathed, and she added: 'I have had plenty of Harveys of my own over the years, enough to feel a sickening shock of recognition. When I was thirteen, a fifty-year-old crew member told me that he would teach me to dance, and then proceeded to push against me with an erection." "When I was fourteen, a married film director stuck his tongue in my mouth on set," she went on. "At a time when I was trying to figure out what it meant to become a sexually viable young woman, at every turn some older guy tried to help speed up the process. And all this went on despite my having very protective parents who did their best to shield me. I shudder to think of what would have happened had I not had them.' In another disturbing experience from her 20s, Molly said that during an audition, a director asked the lead actor to put a dog collar around her neck — despite nothing of the sort being mentioned in the script that she'd been given, or making sense in the context of the story. Molly wrote: 'I sobbed in the parking lot and, when I got home and called my agent to tell him what happened, he laughed and said: 'Well, I guess that's one for the memoirs…' I fired him and moved to Paris not long after.' Speaking to Monica, Molly said: 'I've had many Harvey experiences with different people at a young age, and I'm still processing. I've processed it in a private way, and eventually, I'm going to be able to talk about it and write about it. I'm still grappling.'