Welcome back to Shameless Saturday where I come clean and air my guilty pleasures...
So you all know I have an appreciation for a good-looking celebrity--hence the boyfriend of the week posts and that whole romance writing gig I do. :) However, this is by no means a new obsession. Oh, no. When I was 13, my room was literally wall-papered (including the ceiling) with pages ripped out from the likes of Big Bopper and Teen Beat. (Much to my parents' chagrin. I think they're still trying to cover up the stains that sticky putty left on the walls.)
And it didn't end there. Me and my best friend, Tammi, also created this whole fictional world where we were each dating our respective crushes. Pretty normal, right? Um, well, is it also normal that we would write each other letters as if we were truly dating said crushes? Yeah, didn't think so. I'd like to think those elaborate letters detailing the scandalous (i.e. kissing and holding hands) exploits of me and my boyfriend Joe McIntyre (of New Kids on the Block) were the start of my romance writing career.
So I thought today I would honor those baby-faced boys who started me down this path.
Welcome to the walls of my pre-teen bedroom...
So this was the exact poster I had on my wall and it was my FAVORITE. *sigh* How I loved him...
(He's still hot for the record--even if I grew up to be taller than him, lol.)
Jonathan Brandis was second only to Joe. I fell in lurve with him in that movie Ladybugs and then SeaQuest. However, looking at this picture makes me sad. Jonathan, unfortunately, struggled in his career once he became an adult and in 2003 took his own life. His friends said he'd been suffering from depression over his career. : ( R.I.P. Jonathan
Eddie Furlong in his Terminator 2 days. My first glimpse of how good a bad boy could be. :)
Elijah Wood pre-Lord of the Rings, though frankly, he doesn't look all that different now, lol.
And another New Kid because frankly, I was obsessed. (I still heart them.) And lemme tell you, Jordan has gone from cute to mega hot with age. I think he may make an appearance on Boyfriend of the Week one of these days.
Alright, so there they are--the boys who stole my little pre-teen heart. So, fess up, who was on your walls?