10 Famous People Who Look COMPLETELY Different Now
Some of Hollywood’s biggest names look nothing like the headshots that made them famous.
Flip through old tabloid covers and red-carpet photos and the gap between “then” and “now” gets jarring fast. Weight loss, weight gain, new hairstyles, lip work, plastic surgery, or just plain aging have reshaped some of the most recognizable faces in entertainment. TheThings Celebrity rounds up ten of them in “10 Famous People Who Look Totally Different Now,” and the transformations range from quietly gradual to impossible to miss.
- Rob Kardashian gained roughly 100 pounds over two years while battling depression and pulling back from public life, before starting a visible fitness comeback in 2016.
- Kelly Clarkson’s weight has fluctuated significantly since her considerably slimmer frame during her American Idol win.
- Megan Fox and Kristen Stewart both look dramatically different from their early-career images — Fox once had a rounder, freckled face and thinner lips, while Stewart was known for a tomboy look before both grew into their current red-carpet personas.
Rob Kardashian’s Weight Swing Becomes the Centerpiece
No name in the countdown carries more weight, literally, than Rob Kardashian’s. After stepping back from the family’s reality-TV machine, he gained approximately 100 pounds over two years while dealing with depression, a physical shift that turned him from the once-lean Kardashian brother into someone paparazzi photos barely recognized. That retreat from the spotlight became tabloid shorthand for how visibly a mental-health struggle can show up on the outside.
100 pounds in two years — that’s the number that turned Rob Kardashian into the family member nobody at the newsstand could immediately place.
By 2016, Kardashian had begun pushing back the other direction, working on a fitness comeback that put him back in front of cameras looking leaner than he had in his darkest stretch. He’s still framed as a work in progress rather than a finished transformation, but the shift from his heaviest point marks one of the more talked-about arcs in the video’s lineup.
Hairstyles That Rewired Entire Faces
Hair does more to a celebrity’s silhouette than fans give it credit for. Nicole Kidman and Sarah Jessica Parker both spent years as recognizable curly-haired stars before swapping those signature poofy looks for sleek, straight styles — a change subtle enough on paper but jarring enough in side-by-side photos that casual fans have done double takes at red carpets.
Growing Up in Front of the Cameras
Megan Fox and Kristen Stewart both started acting as kids, which means the industry has a paper trail of exactly how much their faces changed on the way to adulthood. Fox’s earlier look was rounder and freckled with noticeably thinner lips, a far cry from the look she’s built her career on since; readers curious about how her public image evolved off-camera can dig deeper in Inside Megan Fox’s Relationship History. Stewart, meanwhile, spent her early years leaning into a tomboy aesthetic before settling into the polished look she’s known for now.
The Stars Who Faded From the Radar
Not every transformation in the countdown is about polish — some are about stars who simply disappeared from the public eye and came back looking nothing like their glory days. Brendan Fraser, once one of Hollywood’s go-to leading men, gained considerable weight over the years and largely vanished from the tabloid circuit that used to follow him. Kirstie Alley’s arc runs a similar course, a long way removed from her bombshell period, and both serve as the video’s reminder that fame doesn’t freeze anyone in time — a theme that echoes elsewhere in coverage of dramatic personal reinventions, like The Transformation Of Jason Momoa From Childhood To 42.
Kardashian’s comeback push was still very much in progress as of mid-2016, with no finish line announced — just a guy trying to shed the weight he’d put on during the worst stretch of his depression, one workout at a time.








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