Celebrity crushes from your younger days that make you wonder "What was I thinking?"

Ricky Schroeder

Scott Baio

Kirk Cameron

[quote] Michael Jackson ('nuff said)

[quote] Michael Jackson ('nuff said)

Prince.

Scott Baio. He makes me sick now. Republican dickhead.

Chad Allen maybe.

[quote] Chad Allen maybe.

Nothing to be ashamed of, R5. He was quite good looking.

Chad again.

Antonio Sabato Douchebag. Oh, the shame!

Agree with Schroeder, Cameron, and Sabato. Did all the 80s/90s heatthrobs grow up to be freeper assholes?

Billie Joe Armstrong (lead singer for Green Day)

Paul Stanley

Dean Cain

David Boreanaz. I thought he was hot when I watched Angel back in 2002. I tried to rewatch that show recently and he didn't too anything for me.

Joey Heatherton

Sean Cassidy

Brook Shields Cindy Crawford Katarina Witt

They all look like trannies.

I obviously had issues and bad taste growing up. 🤮

Mel Gibson.

David Cassidy

Matt Perry's the only one of the Friend's alumni who looks really bad. I wonder how they will deal with his appearance on the Friend's reunion next month.

When I was very young; Alex James, from Blur.

And I’m a goldstar lesbian, so I don’t know what on Earth that was all about. He did look like a pretty soft-butch as a young man, in my defence.

Now he’s a paunchy middle-aged Tory breeder who makes cheese on a farm, it’s really embarrassing to admit. He’s also not a terribly good musician, and apparently wasn’t all that kind or decent to his groupies back in the day. Musically, I far and away prefer his bandmates Graham Coxon and Damon Albarn/Gorillaz.

Bruce Jenner

R-6, are you a gay male?

Dean Cain is another one who turned into a Trumpanzee

Johnny falling down drunk Depp. Ugh, just ugh.

Kirk Cameron

Vince Vaughn. Ewww!

This is embarrassing: Cory Booker (yes, the fat Gayle King loving Senator from NJ)

Justin Timberlake

Paul Newman. Handsome face, but scrawny body, especially his legs.

Jimmy McNichol.

R29 here, I should have added that I thought Paul was hot when I was younger. I don't know why now because his body looks so disappointing to me.

Tom Cruise

Nick and Aaron Carter 🤢

Johnny Depp ( I thought he was handsome back in the 1990s; he is fucking grotesque now!)

John Denver (Love some of his music, but definitely cannot see why I thought he was cute in the past).

And the worst crush...Doc from the Love Boat! (By far, the homeliest man that I ever developed a crush on; thank Christ, it was short-lived).

Mel Gibson for sure. I don't see why someone should be embarrassed of having a crush on Paul Newman, he was always very handsome.

Jonathan Taylor Thomas. Good grief!

Paul Newman was haaaawwt in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Fit with nice arms playing a football jock. Hollywood smoke and mirrors as he was like 5'7.

R33 at the same time? Whore!

R33 the 2000s gay indie movie HARRY + MAX was made just for you.

Tobey Maguire in late 90s early 2000s. Had no idea what a dark person he is.

@R40- That was very interesting, thank you for the link.

R38 lol Nick was older so i thought i had a better chance with Aaron 😄

R39 never heard of it.

r15 EPIC GAYFACE

r28 Same, girl, same. So embarrassed now.

Corey Haim when I was a late 80's tween.

Leif Garrett

Dan Aykroyd, for a while during the 80s. Not kidding.

[quote] Antonio Sabato Douchebag. Oh, the shame!

I hear you, Gurl but we must NEVER FORGET! [see attached picture]

How the hell were we supposed to know he'd become "born again" and end up a batshit Rightwinger? And would we even have cared given the hotness of his youth?!

OP, from your headline, it appears you are asking people to look back at how our crushes looked like then and wondering what we ever saw in them. Most people here are being influenced by how their crushes look or act now. Correct me if I'm wrong, OP.

I'm not R1, but Kirk Cameron and Rick Schroeder were very cute/good-looking when young, so I have no shame having crushed on them, regardless of their current politics. I too had a major thing for Scott Baio and watched CHARLES IN CHARGE for him, but looking back he really wasn't that good-looking, IMO. He is the one that make me think "What the hell was I thinking?!" Now I think that Willie Aames was the cuter one even though he looks the worse for wear these days.

John Phillips.

John McEnroe, around 1981. I was totally smitten, but, geez, he was butt-ugly! Nice thighs in those tight tennis shorts, though.

I used to jerk off to a picture of Tim Allen back when he was on Home Improvement. 😔

Morrissey.

I thought Suedehead was the most brilliant song ever. I clipped out magazine spreads and put them on my wall and would imagine furiously banging his face.

Politics and dumb opinions aside, he isn't bad looking, but he's no catch. There were other, much better looking, dudes I could have slapped it to.

Chesney Hawkes, one hit wonder from the UK....that mole!

I was in love with Bobby Sherman.

I had a choker.

R51, me too, except I never really got over it. I’d still do him. And I’d probably still feel the sting of post-coital shame.