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Oh My God, Look at This Old Photo of Kelly O

Christopher Frizzelle
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1
Oh, man. Ohhhhhh, man.
Fnarf on March 21, 2014 at 12:35 PM Report this
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Better makeup, styling, and photographic composition makes look #1 the undisputed winner. But when you're that attractive, there really isn't a bad look. (And I should know - I was there when that look was in, and it was terrible on most girls.)
Matt from Denver on March 21, 2014 at 12:40 PM Report this
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Help me out here... I'm trying to from... Are these ironic? It makes a difference.
Jude Fawley on March 21, 2014 at 12:41 PM Report this
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@me: Oops "from" was an autocorrect of "grok". I am trying and struggling to grok these photos.
Jude Fawley on March 21, 2014 at 12:44 PM Report this
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@4: Do you not have embarrassing high school photos from the 80s?

I guess they're ironic and not ironic at the same time, or something.
MLM on March 21, 2014 at 12:48 PM Report this
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Damn! Hellooooooooo, Nurse!
Urgutha Forka on March 21, 2014 at 12:49 PM Report this
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@5 well, not this embarrassing. The second photo is so over the top (literally?) - that's why I'm wondering if it is intentionally bad.
Jude Fawley on March 21, 2014 at 12:55 PM Report this
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Dear Kelly O, please go back in time and hold hands with me on the bus.

Thanks,
Matt
dangerousgift on March 21, 2014 at 1:00 PM Report this
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@7 - in the late 80's, in the Midwest, we all thought it was GOOD. No irony.

The girl with the *biggest* hair won. I thought that that hair was "cool" and worked really hard at it every morning.

Also, the crazy amount of hairspray it took to achieve those heights ate the paint off the wall in my mom's bathroom.
Kelly O on March 21, 2014 at 1:05 PM Report this
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@8 - Only if you let me listen to Judas Priest on your Walkmen
Kelly O on March 21, 2014 at 1:10 PM Report this
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When I was in my 30s, I was intensely embarrassed by my lame high school photo.

Now in my 50s, I think it's hilarious.
Reverse Polarity on March 21, 2014 at 1:21 PM Report this
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I'm in love...please tell me you had guess jeans with little ankle zippers to go with that look...you are wonderful.

I want 80s hair to come back...
AFinch on March 21, 2014 at 1:22 PM Report this
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I'm having flashbacks to 2 of my high school girlfriends right now. Such...big...hair.
johnny_blvd on March 21, 2014 at 1:25 PM Report this
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I love that cover photo so very much. Because on the first day I came to Seattle, I picked that very issue up. I won't say that reading it was what convinced me to stay in the city, but it was one of many things that made me feel good about my decision to move. It was the beginning of a many-year-long love affair.
Morosoph on March 21, 2014 at 1:33 PM Report this
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I swear I smoked dirtweed off of a coke can with Kelly O at a World Funeral/Damned Nation Corporation/Diddly Squat show at the Kennewick Skate King in 1988.
wisepunk on March 21, 2014 at 1:53 PM Report this
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Just like a white winged dove sings a song it sounds like she's singing baby ooh baby ooh i said ooh.
David Schmader on March 21, 2014 at 2:01 PM Report this
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Foxy lady. No wonder she can talk so many guys into letting her photograph their balls - though I think it's been a while since she did that? And I say that with the utmost respect and admiration for her work - which is amazing. And I'm not just talking about the balls.
morealex on March 21, 2014 at 2:38 PM Report this
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She's just as beautiful today as she's always been.
psychic, powerless... on March 21, 2014 at 3:01 PM Report this
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@Kelly O: in the late 80's, in the Midwest, we all thought it was GOOD. No irony.

Yep.

I should introduce your yearbook photo to mine. I think they'd hit it off.
seandr on March 21, 2014 at 3:15 PM Report this
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Nice, Kelly-O. I was in college in the late 80s and then (as now) kinda lazy when it comes to hair styling. So a perm it was for me.
emma's bee on March 21, 2014 at 3:26 PM Report this
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The first one is Stevie Nicks glamorous. The second one is butt rock awesome.
very bad homo on March 21, 2014 at 4:01 PM Report this
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Too Fast For Love
Gern Blanston on March 21, 2014 at 4:44 PM Report this
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I voted for Stevie Nicks. I had a perm in the eighties. Michael Hutchence was a god.
biffp on March 21, 2014 at 5:12 PM Report this
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I voted for #1, but Kelly O would be still be hot as fuck with her head shaved.
Courgette on March 21, 2014 at 5:50 PM Report this
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@24: Cause I'm alive! Live Wire!!
seandr on March 21, 2014 at 5:50 PM Report this
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You have a lovely nose, Kelly O. Please never change it.
rob! on March 21, 2014 at 6:40 PM Report this
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Awww! Totes adorbs, Kells!
Sean Jewell on March 21, 2014 at 7:48 PM Report this
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WalkMAN, Kelly O. Walk MAN.
Genghis John on March 22, 2014 at 1:22 AM Report this
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I have Def Leppard on my walkman, will you sit with me?
NaFun on March 22, 2014 at 6:53 AM Report this
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Thought it was Stevie Nicks in Rhiannon mode.
on March 23, 2014 at 5:53 AM Report this
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#23
I SO Laughed out LOUD, by MYSELF!
Now, I CAN'T CHOOSE ONE! No one gets my vote.
on March 23, 2014 at 8:41 PM Report this
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Wanted: Photo Gallery of reader submissions- "My Worst 80's Hair"

I have a classic. It's not Bad bad, just "Someone has been watching too much Charlie's Angels" bad.
TheOtherWoman on March 23, 2014 at 10:56 PM Report this

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