There was a time when Freddie Mercury was just a child with a distant gaze in a school photograph.
No one in that photograph imagined that face would end up singing in front of entire stadiums. The same goes for little Marilyn Monroe, Ryan Gosling before Hollywood, Jackie Chan without a single film to his name, and Amy Winehouse still far from the stages that would make her immortal. They are faces that half the world recognizes today, but that once crossed a schoolyard without anyone turning to look at them.
The curious thing is that some seem to have been born with the same expression that made them famous, as if the camera already knew what was to come. Others are unrecognizable, a completely different person hidden beneath the years. And you, which one did you recognize first?
