We all remember our first crush. Whether it was Tiffany Sanders from the 6th grade or Tiffany of "I Think We're Alone Now" fame, crushes from our youth hold a special place in our hearts. The '80s provided primo crush fodder, be it from TV, movies, sports or music. There were the TV babes whose photos we cut out of Tiger Beat (yes, maybe we once pasted Alyssa Milano on our wall), the hot young stars whose crappy movies we waited in line to see, the singers whose 1-900 numbers we called in the hopes that maybe we'd actually get to talk to them. (That was our friend, not us.)But where are our crushes from the '80s now? Did they all fade into obscurity, or are they still as popular (and hot) as they were in their heyday? Stroll down memory lane with our gallery of crushes from the "Members Only" era and see where your former One True Loves are now. And please, take that Martika poster off your wall. It's just sad now.
80s Crushes
Danica McKellar
Then: As Kevin Arnold's dream girl on "The Wonder Years," McKellar inspired many a Daniel Stern-voiced musing.
Fun fact: her first kiss was with Fred Savage.
Everett Collection
Danica McKellar
Now: These days the former Winnie Cooper is best known for her forays into mathematics, authoring books like "Kiss My Math" and "Math Doesn't Suck." And she's certainly the only '80s TV star to have a mathematical theorem named after them.
Getty Images
Phoebe Cates
Then: Cates, an expert in the field of slow-motion bikini removal, cemented her crush icon status with "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and "Gremlins."
Everett Collection
Phoebe Cates
Now: After marring Kevin Kline in 1989, Cates appeared in a string of fondly remembered flops ("Drop Dead Fred," "Princess Caraboo") during the '90s. Last seen in 2001's "The Anniversary Party," Cates spends her time these days raising her family (son Owen appeared in "The Squid and the Whale") and running a gift boutique on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
Getty Images
Nicole Eggert
Then: Coming to fame as "Charles in Charge"'s resident blonde bombshell Jamie Powell, Eggert spun her hottie success into a role on "Baywatch." Her tumultuous relationship with Corey Haim, who proposed to her on the set of their film "Blown Away," was short-lived thanks to Haim's drug addiction.
Getty Images
Nicole Eggert
Now: Eggert has popped up on reality TV ("The Real Gilligan's Island,"Scott Baio is 45...And Single") and in films like "National Lampoon's Cattle Call." And unfortunately she still doesn't have the best luck with men, charging ex-boyfriend DJ Lethal (of Limp Bizkit) with domestic abuse in 2008.
Getty Images
Lisa Bonet
Then: Bonet was every artsy sensitive guy's crush during her years on "The Cosby Show," (and later "A Different World.") Her frequently naked, and blood-drenched, turn in the movie "Angel Heart" stirred up controversy, and led to Bill Cosby booting her out of America's favorite TV family.
Everett Collection
Lisa Bonet
Now: Bonet's fame cooled after "A Different World," though she made memorable appearances in the films "High Fidelity" and "Biker Boyz" (opposite "Dwayne Wayne" himself, Kadeem Hardison). Recently, Bonet resurfaced as the girlfriend the displaced-in-the-'70s cop is trying to get back to on ABC's "Life on Mars."
Getty Images
Molly Ringwald
Then: If you didn't have a crush on Molly Ringwald at some point during the '80s, then you probably never went to the movies, turned on a TV, or opened an issue of "Tiger Beat."
Everett Collection
Molly Ringwald
Now: While the past two decades have mostly seen Ringwald relegated to bit parts, she recently entered the "wise mom" phase of her career with the hit show "The Secret Life of the American Teenager." And rumors of a "Breakfast Club" reunion still bubble up every couple years or so.
Getty Images


























The Money Man Behind Rick Santorum: Who Is Foster S. Friess?
Can You Guess This Famous Face?
Boss Indifferent To My Suicidal Impulse, Says Stock Trader Who Lost Millions
Savings Experiment: Snow Removal
Tips for flying cheaper in 2012
Katy Perry Divorce: With No Prenup How Much Will Russell Walk Away With?
It's Pink!
James Sturm Boycotts 'The Avengers' Film over Marvel's Treatment of Jack Kirby
Alleged Squatters Found With Drugs, Handgun, Grenades, Pig
Apple announcing iPad 3 first week of March? Anonymous sources think so







Comments:
Add a comment
Tuesday 24 February
By kogalrankotobuki
Some of these girls looked better in the past, like Lisa Bonet looks like shes lost too much weight in her face. Some of these women actually made themselves look worse with plastic surgery. And some of these fashions and hairstyles from back then ugh! Kathy Ireland used to make the clothes my mom and possibly my GRANDMA wore, I think you could buy them at K Mart. Then theres the girls who are like wine: better with age. I think Naomi Campbell actually looks better with age which for most women is the other way arround. Shauna Sands (now) reminds me of that french girl on Rock Of Love, Rock Of Love Charm School, and the new I Love Money. Shes trying to hard with the lip injections? Or whatever she did.
Reply
Friday 14 August
By Amanda
oh yah i totally agree!!!
Wednesday 25 February
By iphonerulez
I'd say Danica McKellar and Alyssa Milano aged about the best of them. I would take both of them then and now.
Reply
Thursday 05 March
By rich
Hell yeah! Good choices. Both girls, now ladies, still gorgeous.
Wednesday 25 February
By Barry
Lisa Bonet looks like 40 miles of bad road...she's been rode hard and put up wet.
Reply
Wednesday 25 February
By Jay Nicely
It isn't their fault. After the awesome styles of the 1960's and 1970's the poor 1980's was just plain bland with no style of their own. The decade didn't know if it could get more risque or tone it down after President "Ray Gun" blamed aids and global warming on the 60's love generation's promiscuousness. I feel sorry for the 80's lack of a style of their own.
Reply
Friday 27 February
By come on guys
i've seen some of these stars recently and there's alot of bad pictures that don't give tehm justice.
Reply
Thursday 05 March
By rich
I remember those girls mostly as a kid watching movies made when I was a baby. I gotta say though Molly Ringwald, Phoebe Cates still look great.
Reply
Saturday 14 March
By keke
what about kerri green???
Reply
Saturday 14 March
By Taco
EXCELLENT QUESTION! Kerri is TOO fine!
Sunday 15 March
By keke
that's funny cause when i was growing up, people always compared me to her! my name is kerri, too, and i've got that long wavy, goonie hair.
Saturday 14 March
By teltech54
Molly Ringwald doesn't look like that anymore. She has a lot more weight on than that.
Reply
Saturday 14 March
By cittasnoraa
Some good ones! Eggert of "Charles In Charge" & Milano were favs but Julie McCullough man did I have it BAD for her! Still do! Speaking of "Charles In Charge".. I was in love with Jennifer Runyon! NOT lust! LOVE!!!!
Reply
Thursday 19 March
By Danni
It's kinda pathetic that 20 plus years later and Julie McCullough is still working that tired Playboy Bunny route. Seen her "Funny Bunny" routine, and OMG, NOT funny. At least you picked a photo of her that was flattering. In person, she looks like a normal (but cute) 45 year old woman with an 80's haircut.
Reply
Saturday 14 March
By robert
No real mention of Debbie Gibson. Anyone from the 80's knows that Debbie Gibson was a far better performer and cuter than Tiffany. And as for Alyssa Milano. Don't be fool alot of that charmed money went into face work
Reply
Saturday 14 March
By Angel
I have spent too many years looking for this band; Martika's song "Toy Soldiers"" for it to be put down!!! Even EMNEME had to use that one!!! WOOT WOOT! & I AM Still H O T!!! You ALL still tell me I AM, boys & girls... ;D
Reply
Sunday 15 March
By spindisk
If you're still looking for the song "Toy Soldiers", it's on the Toys soundtrack. Robin Williams flick. Was a fun movie, and still brings back my crush on Joan Cussak.
Saturday 14 March
By gabriel florea aurelian
the curly haired child was bitten by bees and fell asleep from the additional spider bites from the oak the acorns contain the worms earthworms adapted to the oak tree they crawl on the inside is very thick if you eat acorn you will clog your kidneys i was bitten by bees my face was inflated only the escorting whites never saw transparent eyes that is why they were coming to look at me orange turned after i ate orange lead oxide paint pigment because they wanted to mumify me for the collection museum and i changed color and from hanging at the tree branches i grew fast they took the blonde curly haired child instead is on tv the misterious mumified child in rome with the alopecia priests african american doctors retained me and now they have the antidote i cured myself they tested all kinds of diseases many of the african subjects succombed and that solved the problem of the back watching for the doctors i found out that the testtubes with my blood broke disolved they found and i observed alopecia on tv growing bolos de carne in laborator i still produce nanites in the body second generation of robots the human body is just an end result of robots construction and i found a way to evolute the human is the sinbiot
Reply
Saturday 14 March
By the Answer
I would still do them all. If any of you ladies are interested (especially Nicole Eggert, Tawny Kitaen, and Allysa Milano) it's ok to shoot me an email.
Reply
Saturday 14 March
By dmt
If beautiful young Elizabeth Shue didn't "make it," God help the rest of us.
Reply