Rarely Seen Photos That Reveal A Different Side To The 90s

" \n The following unseen photos from the 90s are definitely too hot for some viewers. Are they for mature audiences only? We\u2019ll leave that decision up to you\u2026 \n \n\n \n The final decade of the millennium was an era of change. Generation X had taken the societal reigns from the Baby Boomers and letting their hair down. Fashion was taking a turn for the flannel, and young people were beginning to look for new ways to have a good time. \n \n\n \n These snapshots of the 90s show that the decade was full of a kaleidoscopic mix of culture, fashion, and music that made it an unforgettable era to live in - when Anna Nicole Smith was legitimate celebrity and when Johnny Depp was still considered an independent film star. \n \n\n \n It\u2019s important to use these pictures from the 90s to take your preconceived notions of the decade and turn them on their head. That\u2019s the coolest part about taking a deep dive into the past\u2026 you never know what you\u2019ll find on the other side. \n \n\n \n Madonna showing off her toned biceps while posing with Vanilla Ice, the two dated briefly in the early 90s \ud83d\ude0e \n \n\n \n source: Maverick \n \n\n \n For a brief period of time in the early \u201890s Vanilla Ice was something of a magnet for starlets. Somehow, with his single hit, \u201cIce Ice Baby\u201d he was able to ensnare pop goddess Madonna in a relationship. However, he broke things off when she started working on her photography book \u201cSex.\u201d Ice explained: \n \n\n \n She was older than me and a great lover. But I broke up with her after she printed that book because I was hurt to be an unwitting part of this slutty package. It was disgusting and cheap. We were in a relationship yet it looked like she was screwing all these other people. \n \n\n \n Released to coincide with her fifth studio album, \u201cErotica,\u201d \u201cSex\u201d featured gorgeous and elaborate photos taken by Steven Meisel and Fabien Baron of Harper\u2019s Bazaar. The book was a smash, selling out its limited 1.5 million run in only a few days. The book is still one of the most in demand out of print books and Vanilla Ice is\u2026 well, we don\u2019t actually know what he\u2019s up to. \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Pamela Anderson had to sneak into America to shoot her first Playboy cover \ud83d\ude3b \n \n\n \n source: reddit \n \n\n \n This Canadian beauty is best known for her time on Baywatch and her *ahem* private home video with former husband Tommy Lee, but it was hard to look anywhere in the \u201890s without seeing at least a fleeting glance of Pamela Anderson. \n \n\n \n After being discovered at a Canadian Football League game when the camera panned in on her she was quickly offered her first Playboy shoot\u2026 she just had to figure out how to get to America. Anderson was stopped from flying to America because she didn\u2019t have a work permit, she was told that if she didn\u2019t have the proper paperwork she couldn\u2019t enter America so she left the airport and went to the bus station and headed to Seattle. She explains: \n \n\n \n They didn\u2019t check me at the border, so I got into America. And I did my first Playboy cover. \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Dennis Rodman and Michael Jordan hug it out on the court \ud83d\udc7f \n \n\n \n source: NBC \n \n\n \n Whether you were a sports fan or not, life in the \u201890s was dominated by one team - the Chicago Bulls. With six championship wins between 1991 and 1998 there was no way anyone walked through this era without knowing that Michael Jordan and his teammates were giants among men in the NBA. \n \n\n \n As the defacto team leader Michael Jordan was the person that everyone on the team looked to for guidance, but that didn\u2019t mean that they were best friends. Rodman was the best rebounder in the game in the \u201890s, but even though he was on the team with easily the best player in the league he says that the two men never spoke outside of practice. In 2019 Rodman explained: \n \n\n \n We never talked to each other. The only time we talked to each other was probably on the court. Off the court, we never talked to each other. \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Anna Nicole Smith photographed with her 8 year old son Daniel in 1994 \ud83d\udc40 \n \n\n \n source: reddit \n \n\n \n Everyone knows Anna Nicole Smith for marrying an octogenarian on the verge of death, but she first came into prominence - or some version of it - when she went to one of Playboy\u2019s open calls for models. At the time she was just a poor single mother from Mexia, Texas, but her pictorial spread gave her some minor traction. \n \n\n \n Following her Playboy spread and strange marriage to J. Howard Marshall, Smith won a Guess Jeans campaign and even landed on the cover of New York Magazine . She used this new found fame to take care of her son, Daniel. During her 1993 Playboy Centerfold video she explained: \n \n\n \n Daniel is truly the love of my life. I am so thrilled to be able to give him the things I never had. We just love playin\u2019 on the farm with all of our animals. He\u2019ll always be my number-one cowboy. \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Hugh Grant, photographed by the LAPD in 1995 \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n In 1995 Hugh Grant was on top of the world. He was dating Elizabeth Hurley, one of the sexiest women in the world and his career was taking off. Hot off the success of Four Weddings and a Funeral he was knee deep in the promotion cycle for four different films when he was caught on a side street in Los Angeles being pleasured by a sex worker named Divine Brown in his car. \n \n\n \n Both Grant and Brown pleaded no contest and he was fined $1,180 before receiving two years probation and an order to complete and AIDS education program. Brown received a similar sentence but also received 180 days in prison. \n \n\n \n When Grant appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to promote the film Nine Months Leno asked him \u201cWhat were you thinking?\u201d To which Grant replied, \u201cI think you know in life what's a good thing to do and what's a bad thing, and I did a bad thing. And there you have it.\" \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson tongue wrestle in full view of an audience \ud83d\udc45 \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Is there a more star crossed\/\u201890s\/extremely chaotic love affair than that of Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson? After meeting in February 1995 they decided to get married after four days of courtship. They just took off to Cancun and got married on the beach\u2026 Anderson wore a bikini and Tommy Lee wore board shorts. \n \n\n \n Call them trashy, call them over the top, call them whatever you want but Pam and Tommy were absolutely iconic. It\u2019s impossible to think about the mid \u201890s without remembering that they were all over TV and the late night commercials promoting their sex tape. \n \n\n \n After three crazy years and a couple of kids the two called it quits following an assault by Tommy Lee. He served four months after pleading no contest and in spite of their divorce they continued to see each other off and on for the next decade. \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Joaquin Phoenix grew uncomfortable with his photoshoot so he started doing dishes, 1996 \n \n\n \n source: George Holzer \n \n\n \n Joaquin Phoenix has never been someone who feels comfortable with his fame. Following the death of his brother River in 1993 he retreated from the spotlight and essentially gave up acting for a while. He didn\u2019t step in front of a camera for another two years when he appeared in Gus Van Zan\u2019t\u2019s To Die For . \n \n\n \n Interviews with Phoenix are notoriously strange. He\u2019ll either go inside himself or become combative with the interviewer, and every once in a while he\u2019ll do something completely off the wall\u2026 like doing the dishes at a local restaurant. Photographer George Holz explained how he got this fascinating shot: \n \n\n \n We were shooting at the funky Bell Caf\u00e9 in Soho. Joaquin had this nervous energy \u2014 I had a lot of set ups in mind, but realized right away he wasn\u2019t the kind to sit still for a photograph, so I threw all my ideas to the wind and totally shifted gears. I abandoned all my pre-lit set-ups and we wandered around the Caf\u00e9. We talked a lot\u2014the conversation ranged from vegan cuisine to the paparazzi and his late brother River. He went into the kitchen and there were all these dirty dishes stacked up. He said: \u2018Man, these need a wash!\u2019 and put on an apron and just started scrubbing. \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n A Polaroid photo of 13 year old Paris Hilton in 1994 \ud83d\udc44 \n \n\n \n source: reddit \n \n\n \n Its feels like Paris Hilton has always been in the media spotlight. She jumped to fame as a model when she was only 18 with a photo spread in Vanity Fair put together by David LaChapelle and went on to star in The Simple Life with friend and fellow socialite Nicole Richie, but there\u2019s not much known about her early life. \n \n\n \n By all accounts she led a strange life, or at least strange to people who aren\u2019t the children of hoteliers. At the age of 13 she was living in Los Angeles where her bedroom was a suite in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Beverly Hills. \n \n\n \n Her friends were Ivanka Trump and Kim Kardashian (of course) and according to the young socialite whenever Michael Jackson performed in the area she was invited. \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Justin Timberlake and Ryan Gosling, 1994 \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n It\u2019s crazy to think that two of the biggest stars in the world - Justin Timberlake and Ryan Gosling - got their start on the Disney Channel\u2019s The All New Mickey Mouse Club . During their time on the show in the \u201890s they showed off their singing and acting chops. \n \n\n \n While speaking about his time on the show with Ellen DeGeneres, Gosling noted about how inadequate he felt when he watched Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera perform: \n \n\n \n I remember when we first got to the show, they sort of had all the kids perform for one another. I remember it was Christina Aguilera and then Britney performed and I remember thinking, 'Oh, OK, so they're like freakishly talented.' I was used to working with talented people, but that was another level. \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Jennifer Aniston looking angry and hot for Rolling Stone, 1999 \n \n\n \n source: rolling stone \n \n\n \n Even though her father was a soap opera actor she wasn\u2019t exactly a pampered child. Her parents divorced when she was young and she looks to this moment as the thing that defined her life going forward. \n \n\n \n While speaking with Rolling Stone in 1999 she noted that even though she has very few friends in Los Angeles they\u2019re the people she knew before she was famous and that\u2019s how she likes it. She explained: \n \n\n \n This, I know, comes from having a divorced family, watching emotions run rampant and trying to understand them. But I credit my friends. I never got with a bad crowd. When I moved to L.A., I didn\u2019t go through the wrong people to find the right ones. I have the same group around me that I\u2019ve had since I landed here ten years ago. The most important thing is to stay focused. \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Will Smith smeared with cake at the 'Fresh Prince Of Bel Air' wrap party \n \n\n \n source: NBC \n \n\n \n Every kid growing up in the \u201890s remembers watching The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air , Will Smith\u2019s first foray into acting. It was fun, cool, and dare we say\u2026 fresh. The show made Smith a household name but according to the star the only reason he accepted the role was because he was in trouble with the IRS. \n \n\n \n Following the breakout hit \u201cParents Just Don\u2019t Understand\" Smith ended up blowing through all of his money and with a huge IRS bill . When the duo\u2019s second album flopped he was in deep trouble. \n \n\n \n After hanging out around the Arsenio Hall Show for a while he bumped into none other than Quincy Jones. The two started hanging out and they spitballed the entire concept of Fresh Prince . They pitched the series to Brandon Tartikoff of NBC in Jones\u2019 driveway and the show ran from 1990 to 1996. \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Gal Gadot visits the U.S. for the first time as a teenager in New York, 1999 \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Born in Petah Tikva, Israel, Gal Gadot had her yes set on studying law and international relations, although the modeling world was calling to her from a young age. \n \n\n \n After visiting New York City in the \u201890s and before serving in the Israeli Army for two years she took part in the Miss Israel contest and at age 18 she did what no one expected - she won. Gadot explains that she was totally shocked when her name was announced: \n \n\n \n I was 18, I just graduated high school and I had some time in between going to the army. My mom figured, 'Hey, why don't I send your photo, you finished school and this like a proper pageant,' whatever. I got in and I never thought I would win and then I won and then it scared me. I was like, 'What? Miss Israel? All the responsibility of being Miss Israel?' \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Drew Barrymore ignoring the no shoes, no shirt, no service rules \n \n\n \n source: MTV \n \n\n \n Even though she first became famous in the \u201880s it\u2019s the \u201890s when Drew Barrymore really came into her own. By 1990 Barrymore had an autobiography, she was living on her own, and she was about to start her second decade as a star after bouncing back from a tough beginning to her teens. \n \n\n \n Always the paragon of fashion, Barrymore knew how to make any piece of clothing work - even when she was barely wearing any. The \u201890s were just as weird for the young actress as her hectic \u201880s. In 1994 she married a 31 year old bartender after only knowing him for a couple of months. Two months later they divorced. \n \n\n \n Without any major acting roles to speak of around this time she posed nude in Playboy , to which her godfather Steven Spielberg responded by giving her a quilt for her 20th birthday with a note that read, \"Cover yourself up.\" \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Blue but not sad, Gwen Stefani on the red carpet at the MTV Music Video Awards, 1998 \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n She have sang that she was \u201cjust a girl\u201d but in the \u201890s Gwen Stefani was a fashion inspiration to an entire generation of fans. \n \n\n \n Stefani didn\u2019t shy away from her sex appeal but she definitely kept things weird and when it came to putting together a look for the red carpet. The first thing you\u2019re drawn to in this shot from the 1998 MTV Video Music Awards (the best place to see a truly out there outfit) is the blue hair, how could it be anything else? \n \n\n \n But what about that baby-blue furry bikini top, the platform sandals or the hovering futuristic skirt over pants? If you don\u2019t have a look for Halloween you do now. \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n They could be twins... Kim and Kourtney Kardashian, 1994 \n \n\n \n source: pinterest \n \n\n \n The Kardashians have been in the public eye for what feels like eternity but in the \u201890s they were just another family living in Los Angeles. Sure, their father was a hot shot attorney and their then step-father was an Olympian but they were about as regular as could be in Los Angeles. \n \n\n \n Kim and Kourtney have always loved the camera and this photo shows it. If you look at the family\u2019s photos from the \u201890s it\u2019s clear that they totally nail the fashion of the era from dark lipstick to thin eyebrows and even Jncos. \n \n\n \n Many people have commented that Kim and Kourtney looked like twins growing up and that\u2019s because they were born only a year and a half apart. No wonder they\u2019re so close. \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman photographed by Herb Ritts in 1999, they divorced two years later \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n In 1999 Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were finally finished with the psychotic filming process of Stanley Kubrick\u2019s Eyes Wide Shut . After more than a decade of being the most beloved couple in Hollywood they were fraying at the ends - although they didn\u2019t want anyone to know it. \n \n\n \n Prior to filming Kubrick put together a three person therapy session where he psychoanalyzed Tom and Nicole\u2019s marriage in order to blur the lines between fantasy and reality, something that they weren\u2019t excited about, but who would be? Kidman explained : \n \n\n \n Tom would hear things that he didn\u2019t want to hear. It wasn\u2019t like therapy, because you didn\u2019t have anyone to say, \u2018And how do you feel about that?\u2019 It was honest, and brutally honest at times. \n \n\n \n The couple survived the lengthy shoot but not for much longer. By February 2001 they were officially separated and they divorced that summer. Rumors abounded out the reasons surrounding their break up, but it's hard to imagine that spending a year in therapy with Stanley Kubrick in England didn't play a part in it. \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Babyfaces - Tobey Maguire and Leonardo Dicaprio go bowling \n \n\n \n source: reddit \n \n\n \n Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire met when they were 12 years old at an audition in the late \u201880s, likely for one of the many family sitcoms that were on the air at the time. Rather than become rivals the two formed a bond that\u2019s lasted throughout their careers. \n \n\n \n In the \u201890s these two became the focal point of young Hollywood, starring in huge films and getting into some good old fashioned antics. According to Dicaprio, Maguire is one of the most important people in his life. He explained : \n \n\n \n Every single choice I\u2019ve made I\u2019m talked to Tobey about, and vice versa. we\u2019ve had endless conversations about certain projects and argued with one another and supported one another along the way. \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Kurt Cobain in New York, January 1992. A the time he was already thinking of breaking up Nirvana \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n It wasn\u2019t easy to be Kurt Cobain. Following the release of Nirvana\u2019s sea change of an album, \u201cNevermind,\u201d he wasn\u2019t just one of the most famous people on the planet - he was the voice of a generation. A year after the album\u2019s release he was struggling with fame and an attempt to kick heroin, which wasn\u2019t helped by the press constantly attacking his his wife, Courtney Love. \n \n\n \n In 1992 a Vanity Fair article detailing Love\u2019s ongoing use of heroin while she was pregnant. In response Cobain wrote a letter to DGC owner David Geffen threatening to break up the band is something wasn\u2019t done about the remarks. He wrote in part : \n \n\n \n This article has outright accused my wife of all kinds of hideously vile things to the point where Ive never seen such a crucifixion in a magazine. The woman's entire objective was to harm Courtney and now after you read the article (I hope) something may be done about it\u2026 I am now in rehab going on 18 days and Im really looking forward to having a family at this point f*ck NIRVANA\u2026 We are capable of displaying a healthy attitude before our audience and the next record is easily as good as the last one, but Im so extremely pissed off about this piece of trash journalism that I'll lay anything on the line for the love of my wife and daughter. \n \n\n \n Geffen responded to say that articles like this come and go and that he should focus on his music and his family, not on the journalism surrounding his work. \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n A breathtaking photo of Angelina Jolie taken in 1998 \n \n\n \n source: People \n \n\n \n In the early \u201890s Angelina Jolie was essentially a cult star. A beautiful young actress with enticing eyes and a million dollar smile, she played tough chicks in b-movies and a hot hacker in her first blockbuster role, but it was her starring role in Gia that earned her a Golden Globe and established her as a star to watch. \n \n\n \n Following her win for Gia she was profiled in People Magazine and photographed by the great Greg Holzer. \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n In the makeup chair with Tim Curry during production of It, 1990. \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \u201890s kids were absolutely terrified at the start of the decade when Tim Curry put on the face paint to play Pennywise the Clown in ABC\u2019s miniseries adaptation of Stephen King\u2019s It . The two-part, four hour miniseries wasn\u2019t just freaky, it also introduced an entire generation of young people to the devilish delights of Curry. \n \n\n \n There were a lot of great actors and off the wall performers considered to play Pennywise (Roddy McDowall, Alice Cooper and Malcolm McDowell were just some of the names tossed around) but it was Curry who was chosen thanks to his horrifying take on a clown. He explained : \n \n\n \n I just let it happen. Clowns are your worst fear realized. I think I scared a lot of children. \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n A young James and Dave Franco playing Super Nintendo in the early 90s \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Growing up in Palo Alto, California as the sons of a mother who worked as a children\u2019s book author and a father who worked in telecommunications but was actually a kind of mad math scientist the Franco brothers were infused with the restless creative spirit of their parents. \n \n\n \n James and his brother Dave lived like normal young people. They played Nintendo, they got into small trouble, and they witnessed their father carry out science experiments in their backyard. What? Your dad didn\u2019t do that? James told Rolling Stone : \n \n\n \n He had this theory that there was gold running through the rivers, and if he figured out how to collect it, he could put it together. He never figured it out, but I remember all these little Tupperware buckets of river water in our backyard, with strainers in them, and they were his experiments. \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Princess Diana having a dip in the sea while on holiday on Nevis Island in 1993. \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n The first chance Diana had to go on vacation following her split from Prince Charles she fled to Nevis, the oldest British colony in the Caribbean. The island is fairly untouched by civilization with its wild donkeys, goats, and pristine waters. \n \n\n \n While on the island Diana stayed at the 19-room Montpelier Plantation & Beach, exactly the kind of place you want to stay after breaking things off with your royal family. \n \n\n \n The island is still the perfect place to find solitude. There are no cruise ships or long haul flights near the island, which means the beaches are as secluded as you need them to be, and if you\u2019re a former princess you need them to be very secluded. \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Dennis Rodman gives David Letterman matching green hair on the Late Show, August 1996 \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n After Dennis Rodman joined the Chicago Bulls at the start of the 95 - 96 season he was no longer just the bad boy from the Pistons but a member of a full blown championship team. \n \n\n \n Rodman started appearing on Letterman\u2019s show in video segments whenever the smarmy host was in town. In 1996 Rodman appeared as a guest on the actual show and brought along some spray on hair dye that he used to color Letterman\u2019s fairly boring hair-do. \n \n\n \n This was one of the many segments during the \u201890s on Letterman\u2019s show that would become polarizing, along with Drew Barrymore\u2019s birthday dance and Madonna\u2019s many many f-bombs. \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n The face that launched a thousand ships... Julia Roberts, early 90s \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Hands down there was no bigger star in the \u201890s that Julia Roberts. Maybe Arnold Schwarzenegger but that\u2019s arguable. Her big break came in 1990\u2019s Pretty Woman where she played a sex worker who teaches Richard Gere about love and life but she almost didn\u2019t star in the picture. \n \n\n \n Three days after she was cast in Pretty Woman (originally titled 3,000) the production company backing the film folded. After Disney picked the film up and brought on Garry Marshall he agreed to meet with her as a courtesy, although he planned to cast a Hollywood A-lister in the role. Roberts explains the rest : \n \n\n \n This small movie company folded over the weekend, and by Monday, I didn\u2019t have a job. Garry Marshall came on, and because he\u2019s a great human being, he felt it would only be fair to meet me, since I had this job for three days and lost it. They changed the whole thing and it became more something that is in my wheelhouse. \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Young Ashton Kutcher lost the title of Male Model of the Year in 1998 \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n One of the most memorable faces of the late \u201890s is Ashton Kutcher, and while most of us know him as Kelso from That \u201870s Show he began his career as a male model. When he was discovered at The Airliner bar in Iowa City, Iowa he was selling plasma to pay his college tuition and readily accepted the call to use his face to make some cash. \n \n\n \n After winning the \"Fresh Faces of Iowa\" modeling competition Kutcher dropped out of school and moved to New York City where he snared commercials for Calvin Klein and modeled in Paris and Milan. \n \n\n \n He went on to appear in a series of Abercrombie & Fitch campaigns before popping back over to Iowa and moving to Los Angeles - all in a span of two years. \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Alicia Silverstone on the set of \u2018Clueless\u2019, 1995 \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n At the naive age of 19 Alicia Silverstone stepped into the spotlight as Cher Horowitz in Clueless , a film that unwittingly set the template for teen movies throughout the \u201890s. From the look, to the dialogue, and even the fact that it\u2019s a loose adaptation of a Victorian era novel (Jane Austen\u2019s Emma), Clueless created a template for everything that followed. \n \n\n \n Even though the film is considered a \u201890s classic, during production the studio heads were unsure if the film was going to be a hit or if it was going to Audi 5000 out of the theaters. \n \n\n \n The film was a success, but Silverstone says that the way she was spoken about in the media made her feel \u201cextremely isolated\u201d from her peers, but that she learned from the toxic landscape around her and came out better for having lived through it. \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Brooke Shields with her longtime pal Michael Jackson \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n These two stars may seem like an unlikely pair, but the similarities surrounding their rise to fame are uncanny. Both child stars who went onto fame as an adult, both stars uniquely understood the cost of becoming a sensation at a young age. After meeting in 1978 the two young celebrities immediately became close. <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=Ui5cCAAAQBAJ&pg=PT215&lpg=PT215&dq=We+had+a+bond...+both+of+us+needed+to+be+adults+very+early.+It+was+the+most+natural+and+easiest+of+friendships...+Michael+always+knew+he+could+count+on+me+to+support+him+or+be+his+date+and+that+we+would+have+fun+no+matter+where+we+were.&source=bl&ots=np28Jlr7EU&sig=ACfU3U0gnKEbfkr-fLQPjs06gi-xs0tncQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjt4qTfgsPpAhUSbq0KHW4hDYcQ6AEwAHoECAcQAQ\">Shields explained : \n \n\n \n We had a bond... both of us needed to be adults very early. It was the most natural and easiest of friendships... Michael always knew he could count on me to support him or be his date and that we would have fun no matter where we were. \n \n\n \n In 1993 rumors circulated that the two were dating, and Shields later said that Jackson had asked her to marry him multiple times but she always turned him down. In 2001 Jackson explained the magical circumstances under which he met Brooke Shields: \n \n\n \n She was one of the loves of my life... her pictures were all over my wall, my mirror, everything. and I went to the Academy Awards and this girl walks up to me and says \u2018Hi, I'm Brooke Shields.' Then she goes, \u2018Are you going to the after-party?' I go, 'yeah.' \u2018Good, I'll see you at the party.' I'm going, 'oh my god, does she know she's all over my room?' so we go to the after-party. She comes up to me she goes, 'will you dance with me?' I went, 'yes. I will dance with you.' man, we exchanged numbers and I was up all night, singing, spinning around my room, just so happy. It was great. \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Cindy Crawford for Vogue November, Monaco, 1991 \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Helmut Newton is known for taking evocative and stirring photos in stark black and white. Drawing from erotica and high fashion, his work is often daring and always has the allure of something extremely sensual. \n \n\n \n When it comes to photographing a model Newton says that he doesn\u2019t like to tell them too much, he just needs them to get it. He explained what it\u2019s like to photograph Cindy Crawford, one of the most beautiful women on the planet : \n \n\n \n The woman in the image can be mysterious and to me I think it\u2019s important that she is mysterious. So even in the way a woman walks down the staircase like Cindy walks down, I like the way that the legs open. I like the muscles that I see, I like the way the knees open. She walks down in a certain way. Well, I show the girl what I mean and if she\u2019s smart, she gets it immediately. \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Reese Withershpoon backstage at a Counting Crows concert in 1996 \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Audiences have been welcoming Reese Witherspoon into their homes since 1991 when she played Dani Trans in The Man in the Moon , but she wouldn\u2019t become a breakout star until 1996 with the thriller Fear . \n \n\n \n Following the release of what was meant to be a Mark Wahlberg vehicle Witherspoon starred in some of the most beloved films of the late \u201890s. But at the time this photo was taken she was just a young woman enjoying a night at a seriously \u201890s concert - the Counting Crows were jamming the on \u201cRecovering the Satellites,\u201d which meant Witherspoon definitely sang along to \u201cLong December.\u201d Photographer Randall Slavin explained how he snapped this adorable pic: \n \n\n \n We were backstage at the Wiltern after a Counting Crows concert when I took this picture of Reese Witherspoon and another young actor, Eddie Mills. They were hanging out a bit, and Eddie and I were friends. This was right after Fear came out \u2014 1996 was sort of her breakout year. \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Johnny Depp admitted to Playboy that fans sent him extremely weird gifts \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n In 1996 Johnny Depp was at a strange place in his career. Both revered for his off-beat acting choices and looked at as a heart throb, he was trying to figure out the next stage of his career all the while under the focus of the public eye. \n \n\n \n While speaking with Playboy that year Depp discussed the strangest things that his fans sent him in the mail (from \u201cprimitive\u201d nude photography to pubic hair) to the way he feels about his famous looks. When asked how he felt about being so handsome that women send him strange gifts he responded: \n \n\n \n I have no control over that. It's demeaning when people talk about my looks. I think I usually look like sh*t, and most people would probably agree. \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Amy Winehouse with her mother Janis, 1998 \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Amy Winehouse is one of those stars who shined brightly before burning out only a few years after becoming one of the biggest stars in music. Her whisky and cigarette soaked vocals brought danger back to pop radio, but her addictions got the best of her and she passed away on July 23, 2011. \n \n\n \n As a teenager in the 1990s Winehouse attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School in London where she worked out of her vocals and her songwriting skills. At the same time she was also getting into trouble, acting out in ways that were only a preview for what was to come. Her mother wrote of the young woman : \n \n\n \n Amy came into my life like a whirlwind and changed it forever. Although I lived through it with her, sometimes her story does not feel real. I am a proud mother who watched her daughter achieve the success and recognition she desperately wanted\u2026 She, herself, walked an endlessly unsteady tightrope between withdrawing from the limelight and needing to be noticed. \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n A teenager's bedroom in 1999... look familiar? \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n If you\u2019re not experiencing nostalgia overload with this shot of a teenager\u2019s room in the \u201990s then you\u2019re either not looking hard enough or you slept through the decade. Where do you even start with this guy\u2019s room? It\u2019s got to be the posters, right? \n \n\n \n Teenagers have been obsessed with pop culture since that was a thing, but it wasn\u2019t until the \u2018end of the 20th century that there were so many different types of culture to become interested in A young person could love Buffy , South Park , and Friends, even if it was just an obsession with their stars. \n \n\n \n The \u201890s was the first decade when it was no big deal to have your own TV, and these miniature numbers were a mainstay in bedrooms across the country\u2026 if you had a Playstation hooked up to your TV you were basically god in your friend group. What do you think happened to all that stuff? Is it in the trash or stored in an attic somewhere? \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Backstage at a Versace show with Emma Sjoberg, Tricia Helfer & Veronica Webb 1994 \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n There have always been models, those leggy angular women who are more like goddesses than regular humans but in the \u201890s the era of the supermodel began giving rise to runway stars like Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, and Christy Turlington. \n \n\n \n This influx of supermodels can be traced back to Gianni Versace , a designer who cemented their status with his Fall 1991 show that made use of these supermodels, specifically he models who appeared in the George Michael video for \u201cFreedom.\u201d At the end of the show the women strutted down the cat walk lip synching the song. \n \n\n \n Versace\u2019s \u201cFreedom\u201d moment showed that fashion could be used to affect pop culture in more ways than showing people what to wear. \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n Claudia Schiffer by Ellen von Unwerth guess campaign 1991 \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n It\u2019s hard to imagine now, but in the early \u201890s no one was quite sure who Claudia Schiffer was. Sure, she was a super hot model, but she wasn\u2019t a super model until she was photographed by Ellen Von Unwerth. Schiffer\u2019s raw talent was captured by Unwerth for this Guess campaign that\u2019s both sexy and stylish. \n \n\n \n Unwerth had a way about her that allowed her to help her models put their guards down when the camera was up. She knew that by making models feel empowered she could get the sexiest image of them. She told Harper\u2019s Bazaar : \n \n\n \n The women in my pictures are always strong, even if they are also sexy. My women always look self-assured. I try to make them look as beautiful as they can because every woman wants to feel beautiful, sexy and powerful. That\u2019s what I try to do. \n "

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