This A.I. Turns Celebrities Into Kids And Let's Us Get A Peek At What They May Have Looked Like Back Then
If you've ever wondered what your favorite celebrities looked like as kids, then you've come to the right post.
Some celebrity childhood photos are easy to find, but plenty of them never seem to surface online. That is exactly why this curious experiment stands out.
Using an AI app, one person tried turning 21 well-known celebrities into kids to see how close the results came to their real younger selves. The lineup includes stars with widely shared baby photos and others whose early pictures are much harder to track down.
The results are a little uncanny, a little funny, and sometimes surprisingly convincing. Read on to see which celebrity faces held up best in miniature.
1. Rita Hayworth
The black and white comparison with the AI image makes this look insane.
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It's hard to picture Sylvester Stallone as a child, but here we are.
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Scarlett is already young and beautiful, so this photo comparison was actually pretty easy to imagine.
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4. Reese Witherspoon
Would you even recognize this as AI?
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5. Justin Bieber
A lot of us grew up with Justin and can confirm he looks literally the same.
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6. Rowan Atkinson
I mean, if we saw this floating around on the internet, I think we would believe it.
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7. Antonio Banderas
Oh yeah, we can definitely see this one.
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8. Susan Sarandon
The difference and similarity in these photos is insane.
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9. Celine Dion
This one is interesting. The AI seems to retain a lot of the facial features exactly as we would imagine they would be.
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And if you’re already squinting at AI child versions of Rita Hayworth and Scarlett Johansson, this feels like the grandparents who look built different in vintage photos.
10. Rihanna
The eyes seriously pop in this image, and that's where we see Rihanna in this AI rendering.
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11. Ed Sheeran
Okay, something about this one feels extremely accurate.
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12. Lady Gaga
Okay, Lady Gaga is throwing us off with this one. I'm not completely sold on it because if I just saw the child picture, I don't think I would know it was Lady Gaga.
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13. Mark Zuckerberg
Mark looks exactly the same, and we aren't mad at it.
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14. Robert Downey Jr.
Okay, now this one threw us off, but maybe just because his infamous beard is gone.
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15. Will Smith
Will Smith... What?!
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16. Paris Hilton
We're living for the Paris hair. It's definitely believable that she wore her hair like this as a child.
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17. Jennifer Lopez
This one I'm not completely sold on. I can't exactly imagine JLo looking like this photo, and I think this is the one I wouldn't believe if it were floating around the internet.
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18. Mark Wahlberg
I'd believe this was a real childhood photo of him if I saw it.
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19. John Travolta
AI has really done a number on this one. They look literally like twins, honestly.
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20. Barack Obama
I think if we all saw him in school and he looked like this, we'd all think he'd be the one to grow up and be president one day.
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21. Luíza Brunet
Totally agree that Luíza would look just like this.
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What do you think about these AI photos? Some of them definitely could have passed for real childhood photos of these celebrities, but some couldn't honestly.
It's really wild how accurate AI is, though, and just how realistic some of these photos look. I'm curious to see what other celebrities look like when doing this experiment.
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Some of these celebrity kid versions are surprisingly convincing.
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