10 celebs you can barely even recognize now

The following famous faces have changed so drastically over the years, most people would have a tough time picking them out in a lineup. From America's sweethearts to '80s icons, find who has aged, um, interestingly over the years.

Renee Zellweger

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Actress Renee Zellweger had everyone talking in 2014 when she showed up to the Elle Women in Hollywood party looking a lot different than she used to. According to People, some guests at the event didn't recognize her. The tabloids went into a speculative tailspin as rumors of plastic surgery erupted.
What happened? In a statement to People, the Oscar-winning actress credits her new look simply to living a "different, happy, more fulfilling life." "My friends say that I look peaceful. I am healthy," Zellweger said. "For a long time I wasn't doing such a good job with that…Rather than stopping to recalibrate, I kept running until I was depleted and made bad choices about how to conceal the exhaustion."
Zellweger has no time for Internet gossip, based on her 2016 interview with Today. "It's not really part of my life. It's part of the job that I don't really experience except when I step into this arena," she said. "In my home I'm not aware of it. I don't do any kind of social media, so I don't see it. I like to have—I guess you would call them real experiences." Well, okay, then. Fair enough.

Val Kilmer

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Actor Val Kilmer made headlines for his fluctuating weight for years, but tabloids took special notice of his sudden and drastic weight loss in 2014, forcing Kilmer to set the record straight. In a Facebook post published in December of that year, Kilmer claimed he had lost weight to portray Mark Twain in an upcoming movie. He also said he was in "perfect health."
About a month later, Kilmer was rushed to the hospital amid rumors that he had a throat tumor. A rep for the actor later told TMZ Kilmer was simply undergoing tests for a possible tumor. The following December, Kilmer—who shot down reports that he'd been rushed back to the hospital—was spotted wearing a device that appeared to be a tracheostomy tube, according to People. Kilmer stepped out without the device a few months after People's report.

Mickey Rourke

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Oscar-nominated actor Mickey Rourke's face has changed considerably since he emerged as a Hollywood icon in the early '80s. As he tells it, his mug was damaged from his days as a professional boxer. "Most of it was to mend the mess of my face because of the boxing, but I went to the wrong guy to put my face back together," Rourke told The Daily Mail in 2009. "I had my nose broken twice. I had five operations on my nose and one on a smashed cheekbone." Sources for Page Six claimed in 2015 that Rourke was undergoing more surgeries to fix his nose and to get new dental implants.

Meg Ryan

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Meg Ryan's drastically different face has been the subject of much speculation over the years, leading to headlines like "Misshapen Meg!" and the terribly blunt "What Has Happened to Meg Ryan's Face?" To answer that question: we honestly don't know. Although rumors of plastic surgery have surrounded the actress since the early '00s, as far as we can tell, she's never actually set the record straight. You be the judge.

Lil Kim

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Lil Kim is another celebrity who's battled plastic surgery rumors. The forty-something rapper's face has looked drastically different at multiple events. According to E! News, Kim's team finally spoke out after taking offense to a blog post. "We would like to inform fans, the media, and the general public that this is nothing more than the blog site doing its best to conjure up much needed publicity and what better way to do so, than to take an American music icon and create a fictitious platform in which to disrespect and humiliate," a rep for Kim said. "We at Team Lil Kim are not taking this lying down and are taking this matter very seriously."

Lark Voorhies

It's hard to believe this is the same actress who once played the bubbly, fashion-happy student Lisa Turtle on Saved by the Bell. After a little investigating, it seems there many be something darker going on beneath the surface. After Voorhies' bizarre interview with The Yo Show aired in 2012, the actress' mother claimed in an interview with People that her daughter was suffering from bipolar disorder. Voorhies denied her mother's allegations and said she suffers from lupus.
"I continue to rise again and again to reinvent myself." she told her Instagram followers in December 2015. "And most important, there is a part of me you can never touch without my permission, my soul. I am God's child and you can never take from me what I refuse to give."
Voorhies also published several books, including one titled, "True Light: A, superior, take, unto, the, premier, haloing, of, tenuation." (That's her punctuation, not ours.) So…yeah.

Anjelica Huston

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Actress Anjelica Huston's face raised quite a few eyebrows at a 2013 panel for NBC's Smash, to the point where The Daily Mail claimed she was suffering from an offensive-sounding condition called "pillow face." For what it's worth, according to the Mail, Huston has been open about her experiences with plastic surgery, including a Botox injection that allegedly left her with a headache for four days.

Daryl Hannah

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Actress Daryl Hannah looks a heck of a lot different from her Splash days; but before you jump to any conclusions, she has said before that cosmetic surgery has nothing to do with it. "I am too much of a coward to go under a surgeon's knife for something that wasn't life-saving," she told The Daily Mail in 2010, adding that she has actually lost jobs over a photo that made her look like she had gotten work done.

Rupert Everett

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Like many stars on this list, Rupert Everett's face has been subjected to harsh criticisms over the last few years. At one point, Entertainment Weekly even published a blog post titled, "Rupert Everett's Face Makes Me Uncomfortable." Like many stars on this list, Everett claims he's had no work done. "I haven't had any surgery done at all," he told The Daily Mail in 2014. "You can see my face. I have lines. But I also want more hair—that's the way forward for me." We may never know the truth about his face, but we do know that My Best Friend's Wedding is an amazing movie, and Everett should have been nominated for an Oscar for it. Just sayin'.

Mark McGrath

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Singer-turned-TV host Mark McGrath looks almost nothing like he did as boisterous frontman of Sugar Ray in the '90s. Which, come to think of it, might not be so bad after all because who wants to be immortalized as Sugar Ray?

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Broadway baby Lea Michele may be an inimitable talent, but with great talent comes a great number of haters. As Michele's stardom grew, so too did the infamy of her attitude. Co-stars and celebrities have lashed out against the Glee star. Keep reading for all the juicy details.

Naya Rivera

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Rumors of a torrid feud between Michele and Glee co-star Naya Rivera surfaced in April 2014. Rivera played tough cheerleader Santana Lopez on the hit teen series, while Michele enjoyed the spotlight in the starring role of theater princess Rachel Berry. "They're always icy to each other," a source told Us Weekly. "Naya is jealous that Lea is the show's main star…There is a lot of sighing and eye-rolling between them."
Years later, that bad blood lingers. Rivera reportedly talks about the drama in her tell-all book, Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes, and Growing Up, set to be released in September 2016.

Jessica Lange

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What's worse than being snubbed on a red carpet? Being snubbed by Jessica Lange on an American Horror Story: Freak Show red carpet. Michele attended the show's October 2014 premier and, as celebrities do, she paused to pose for the press in attendance. The legendary Lange passed right in front of  Michele mid-pose and completely ignored the young actress's warm greeting. While no statement was issued by Lange's camp, the press had a field day whipping up stories about the alleged snub.

Kate Hudson

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Hudson guest starred on Glee in a six-episode story arc at the beginning of the show's fourth season. She played Cassandra July, Rachel Berry's new dance teacher at the New York Academy of the Dramatic Arts. In August 2012, just weeks before the season premiere, Us Weekly reported that Hudson considered her co-star a "total diva." According to a source, "Kate says Lea is a nightmare. Once, during a technical delay, Lea snapped her fingers and said, 'Let's go. I have plans!'"
Apparently, those hard feelings faded fast. Michele told Elle that after her boyfriend and Glee co-star, Cory Monteith, was found dead in a Vancouver hotel room from a heroin overdose in July 2013, her home was swarmed by reporters. Feeling like she had nowhere else to go, Michele called Hudson who immediately opened her home. "I'll never really be able to thank her, truly, for what she did for me," Michele said.

Patrick McMullan

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In 2010, Time Magazine included Michele in its annual list of the "Top 100 Most Influential People." The honor coincided with the end of Glee's debut season, which meant that Michele was still a rookie in the spotlight. In May 2010, she attended Time's annual "Top 100" gala in New York City and was photographed by famed shooter Patrick McMullan.
According to New York magazine, when McMullan asked Michele for her name to identify her in his photos, the actress responded "Sarah Palin." When given a second chance to answer, she said, "Taylor Swift." The celebrity photographer allegedly responded with some choice cuss words, though the native New Yorker later claimed he just said, "forget about it." Regardless, fellow attendees noticed the diss, and Michele tweeted an apology for her "silly joke.