No matter who you are -- unless you're Kim Kardashian, maybe? -- being thirteen years old is an embarrassing, emotional experience. Between puberty and questionable fashion fads, odds are that when you uncover those old school picture day photos once you're all grown up, you're going to wince.
But things are a lot different for kids these days according to Anderson Cooper, who last night (October 5) unveiled his latest CNN report, "#Being13: Inside the Secret World of Teens," which investigated the effect of social media on today's young people. To promote the show, he and many other CNN anchors tweeted pictures of themselves at the tender age of thirteen.
It certainly got us wondering -- what did some of our current favorite celebrities look like before they'd gotten into high school? Like the cutest, dorkiest, most wonderful kids in the whole world, evidently:
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Son of Brooke Ashley Hall
American reality star
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American YouTuber
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American model
English YouTuber
American actress
American actor
American YouTube star
American dancer
Step child of CJ So Cool
American Instagram star
American dancer
American actress
American actress
American YouTuber
American YouTube star
American dancer
American YouTuber
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American actor
American YouTuber
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American social media star
English magician
American Instagram star
American YouTuber
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American Instagram star
American YouTube star and gymnast
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American YouTuber
American rapper
British-Filipino actress and singer
American singer
Daughter of Jhené Aiko
South Korean dancer
Irish YouTuber
American YouTube star
Irish internet star
American actress