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Ten red-carpet transformations that prove Hollywood’s awkward-phase-to-glow-up pipeline is real.

TheThings Celebrity built its countdown “10 Celebrity Glow Ups You Won’t Believe” around a familiar tabloid obsession: the before-and-after. The video, also circulated under the title “10 Celebrities Who Grew Up To Be Beautiful,” strings together child-star and early-career photos against the polished, stylist-approved versions fans see on red carpets today. It’s less a story about overcoming hardship than a straightforward style autopsy — awkward haircuts, ill-fitting outfits, and braces giving way to glam squads and personal trainers.

• The countdown highlights Matthew Lewis, who traded the padded suit and prosthetic teeth he wore as Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter films for a leaner, GQ-ready look that went viral years after the franchise ended.
• Dylan and Cole Sprouse feature prominently for their shift from Disney Channel styling on shows like The Suite Life of Zack & Cody to a more stripped-down, indie-leaning aesthetic as adults.
• Kylie Jenner’s makeup and cosmetic overhaul — arguably the most heavily documented glow-up in the video — anchors the countdown as the modern-era case study in image reinvention.

The Format Behind the Countdown

TheThings Celebrity built its channel on exactly this kind of list-driven content: rapid-fire entries, each built around a “you won’t recognize them now” reveal. The glow-up format works because it’s visual shorthand — a split-screen photo does more work than a paragraph of explanation, and viewers can judge the transformation for themselves in seconds. That’s part of why these countdowns rack up steady views long after the initial upload; they don’t require context about a scandal or a news cycle, just two photos years apart.

The video leans on entries that span different eras of fame — child actors, Disney alumni, and reality-TV-adjacent figures — which lets it draw from decades of paparazzi and press-tour photography rather than a single news moment. That’s a different animal from something like the cast transformations tracked from That ’70s Show, where the “then and now” gap is measured in decades of aging rather than a few years of stylist intervention.

Matthew Lewis and the Neville Longbottom Effect

Lewis’s inclusion is the clearest example of the video’s thesis. As Neville Longbottom across eight Harry Potter films, he wore a fat suit and prosthetic teeth for years, becoming something of a punchline among fans. When he later showed up clean-cut and fit for magazine shoots, the internet’s reaction was less “glow-up” and more genuine shock — a reaction the countdown is clearly built to replicate for its other nine entries.

Ten photos, ten reveals — the whole appeal is the split second before you realize who you’re looking at.

The Sprouse Twins’ Post-Disney Reinvention

Dylan and Cole Sprouse spent their teenage years locked into Disney Channel’s house style on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and its spinoffs — matching haircuts, matching wardrobe, matching brand. Their adult image swung hard in the opposite direction, trading the Disney polish for a scruffier, fashion-forward look that made both twins recurring fixtures in men’s style coverage rather than tabloid “whatever happened to” pieces. That pivot from studio-controlled image to self-directed style is a common thread running through many child-star transformation lists, including the childhood-to-adulthood tracking done on Jason Momoa.

Kylie Jenner as the Modern Case Study

No entry in the video is more discussed than Kylie Jenner’s, and for good reason — her shift from a teenage Keeping Up with the Kardashians cast member to a fully rebranded beauty mogul is arguably the most photographed aesthetic overhaul of the decade. Makeup, styling, and a heavily scrutinized cosmetic evolution turned her into shorthand for the entire glow-up genre, which is likely why the countdown treats her as close to a centerpiece rather than just one of ten names.

What ties Lewis, the Sprouse twins, and Jenner together in this list isn’t hardship or comeback narratives — it’s simply time, money, and stylists doing their job in front of cameras that never stopped rolling. TheThings Celebrity doesn’t need a news hook to make that watchable; it just needs the receipts, and ten side-by-side photos are exactly that.