45 Celebrities Who Were Already Gorgeous In High School

For some, high school is a nightmare, a time filled with anxiety, dread, and the unyielding awkwardness that is adolescent skin care. For others, it was the best time of their lives and then they became townies, got jobs at banks, and seemingly lost any and all ambition to do something else, at least that's what their Facebook walls suggest, and it makes you depressed.

Taylor Lautner

Amy Poehler

Charlize Theron

Julianne Moore

Katy Perry

Megan Fox

Courteney Cox

Beyonce Knowles

Cameron Diaz

Chace Crawford

Tom Cruise

Diane Sawyer

Enrique Iglesias

Stacy 'Fergie' Ferguson

George Clooney

Halle Berry

Chelsea Handler

Jon Hamm

Katie Couric

Lauryn Hill

Matthew McConaughey

Rachel McAdams

Meryl Streep

Brad Pitt

Rob Lowe

Sharon Stone

Michael Stipe

Teri Hatcher

Demi Moore

Jessica Simpson

Geena Davis

Amy Adams

Adam Levine

Alec Baldwin

Elizabeth Banks

Eva Mendes

Emma Stone

Leonardo DiCaprio

Matt Damon

Natalie Portman

Ryan Reynolds

Gwen Stefani

Harrison Ford

Michelle Pfeiffer

Robert Downey Jr.

For celebrities, however, it was probably a magical time. Why? Because celebrities are beautiful, perfect specimens who are geniuses. Maybe not everybody, but for a lot of famous people, they were basically good to go as soon as they made the seamless transition from child to small adult who was already attractive and would be just fine for the rest of their lives.

Here are 45 of those celebrities, all of whom were already f*cking gorgeous in high school, which is annoying.

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