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Home · Celebrity

#TBT: Guess The Celebrity Childhood Picture

These stars were adorable kids and, thanks to social media, we're seeing our favorite personalities as tiny tots. Can you guess who?

By Yolanda Sangweni · April 30, 2015October 27, 2020
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Throwback Celebrity Baby Pictures

This pigtailed cutie grew up to be one half of a soulful duo.

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Throwback Celebrity Baby Pictures

It’s none other than Mary Mary’s Erica Campbell.

Terry Wyatt – Getty Images
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Prince – Throwback

This late singer always was too cool for school.

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Throwback Celebrity Baby Pictures

It’s the one and only Prince.

Kevin Mazur/WireImage
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Michelle Obama  – Throwback

Before she was our First Lady, she was just a little girl from Chicago.

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Throwback Celebrity Baby Pictures

She turned into our First Lady, Michelle Obama.

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La La Anthony – Throwback

Who would’ve guessed that this adorable little girl would be one of television’s biggest personalities married to one of the NBA’s biggest stars?

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Throwback Celebrity Baby Pictures
Surprise! It’s LaLa Anthony.
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Throwback Celebrity Baby Pictures

This little lady, pictured here with her first boo, has gone on to make quite the name for herself, starring in hit movies and making waves on Broadway.

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Throwback Celebrity Baby Pictures

It’s your girl, Keke Palmer.

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Kevin Hart – Throwback

Hart shared the reason he took up swimming on Instagram, “My mom made me do it because she didn’t want me in the streets.”

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Throwback Celebrity Baby Pictures

It’s Kevin Hart!

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Throwback Celebrity Baby Pictures

This adorable tot, born to a German mother and Ghanaian dad, grew up to be one of the sexiest men in Hollywood. He met his wife while acting on a popular cable drama about an African-American family from Chicago.

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Throwback Celebrity Baby Pictures

It’s Boris Kodjoe!

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Beyoncé & Solange – Throwback

Before they were icons.

Beyonce/ Instagram
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Throwback Celebrity Baby Pictures

It’s none other than Solange and big sis Beyoncé.

Solange/ Twitter
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Throwback Celebrity Baby Pictures

This cutie grew up to be a singer who loves giving back and singing about the “New York State of Mind.”

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Throwback Celebrity Baby Pictures

It’s Alicia Keys!

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Cynthia Bailey – Throwback

An RHOA star, the former model looks too cute with those little pigtails.  

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Throwback Celebrity Baby Pictures

It’s Real Housewives of Atlanta star Cynthia Bailey.

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Throwback Celebrity Baby Pictures

This Los Angeles native grew up to win season three of a popular TV modeling competition. She’s also a new mom.

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It’s Eva Marcille.

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Kandi Burruss – Throwback

This little lady is one of the reason’s we regularly tune into The Real Housewives of Atlanta. 

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It’s Kandi Burruss.

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Throwback Celebrity Baby Pictures

This teenie grad grew up to be in one of the most successful R&B girl groups of all time. She’s also a newlywed.

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Throwback Celebrity Baby Pictures

It’s Kelly Rowland.

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Throwback Celebrity Baby Pictures

This songbird rocked her flowing locks on a recent cover of ESSENCE.

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Throwback Celebrity Baby Pictures

It’s ESSENCE cover girl, Ledisi.

Jason LaVeris/ Getty
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Throwback Celebrity Baby Pictures

Even as a little girl, this Houston-born singer and former girl group member, was stylish.

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Throwback Celebrity Baby Pictures

It’s LeToya Luckett, former member of Destiny’s Child.

Yoh Phillips
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Throwback Celebrity Baby Pictures

This Canadian cutie with a powerhouse voice grew up to win a Grammy for her duet with Cee-Lo.

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Throwback Celebrity Baby Pictures

It’s singer Melanie Fiona.

Charles Eshelman/ Getty
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Tracee Ellis Ross – Throwback

This isjut proof that Tracee Ellis Ross has always had a magnificent head of hair. 

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It’s Tracee Ellis Ross, daughter of Diana Ross.

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Throwback Celebrity Baby Pictures

Even as a kid, this Philadelphia-born comedian was “thinking like a man.”

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Throwback Celebrity Baby Pictures

It’s Kevin Hart!

Skip Bolen/Getty Images
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Lenny Kravitz – Throwback

Baby Lenny was just too cute.

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It’s Lenny Kravitz!

Jim Spellman/ Getty
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This Decatur, Georgia cutie’s last album was called No Boys Allowed.

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It’s Keri Hilson!

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Throwback Celebrity Baby Pictures

We came to know and love this Illinois native when she played “Akeelah” in a popular movie about a spelling bee.

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It’s Keke Palmer.

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