“12 vs 21!”
“Me in 1999, showing off my Phantom Menace boxers. Yes, my little brother is still that cool.”
“2003: the goths on a budget for a school dance”
“My eleventh birthday — I’m showing off my gifts, surrounded by all my friends.”
“I thought I was Arnold Schwarzenegger even though I was 125 pounds (I’m on the left).”
“At 12, this pose felt cooler than it ended up looking.”
“Class of ’89, every cliché in one shot, teen mustache included…”
“Why did I think this looked good?”
“I dressed up like a ’queen’ and thought it looked really cute.”
“Me in 2004, holding huge tomatoes in the newspaper”
“Was that really the best picture taken that day?”
“I’m 11 years old here, sporting a homemade haircut. Looking back at it, I understand why I kept getting confused for a girl.”
“My mom had to go to the supermarket after she picked me up from a convention.”
“I used to cut my own hair in high school. They called me ’a pyramid head.’”
“My fourteenth birthday — my Korn shirt and giant pants clearly had places to be.”
“It’s safe to say I was ready to steal everyone’s man on the first day of sixth grade.”
“Eighth-grade yearbook, circa 1997 — this particular style wasn’t cool back then either.”
“A family day out at Legoland at the start of my goth phase”