So adorable! Had she been born 30 years earlier, she might've looked like this until she died, after a long life as a senator's functionally alcoholic wife who suffers mysterious itches whenever she sees Martina Navratilova play tennis on television.
Instead, she's Queen of All Lefty Media, and America's hunkiest dyke. It's wonderful.
She is a lovely woman, then and now. And, man did we look a like, except for my high cheekbones and square jaw. Good to know high school senior portraits are so consistently boring.
@2 - you should be ashamed. She's only the most articulate lefty pundit on the planet. Her segments on politicians' hypocrisy, showing footage of a politician saying one thing, and then saying the complete opposite are not to be missed.
On a less relevant note, she blew past Portia De Rossi as straight males most desired lesbian about 2 years ago. This pic certainly isn't going to hurt that sentiment.
@11 & 14 - well damn. In my defense, I don't have a TV and barely understand the concept of "pundits". It's a cultural thing evidently - wiki lists 5 "pundits" in my home country (two I actually know of), and... I don't even have the time to count the list it has of pundits in the US. It's a foreign concept to me, pun intended.
@19, in England you could walk through a public park or square and find rows of people standing on empty soapboxes trying to attract audiences with shouting and waving. Here on US basic cable we call them pundits, and Maddow's the best of a bad, bad lot.
yeah-
she's definitely the best thing the Left has...
which is why Fox kicks ass with one hand behind its back.
when will you hipsters learn-
smoking hot perky blonde newsbabe
trumps
smarmy smug dyke.
e v e r y t i m e.
First thought was "I don't know, but this is definitely from my time of getting through high school (i.e., ca. 1990)." Like my old yearbook photo, which was taken during the summertime, I also had this peculiar tan almost to the button of what Rachel had in hers. What 18 or 20 years out of high school will do to bring forth some "Whoa, all that happened in just those years!" moments never cease to grab people's attention. I would have found her hot then as I do now. But so much hotter now, without contest.
This old stuff spilling out as a consequence of being a highly public figure is probably a big reason — possibly the biggest — why I chose early on to stay as private as I possibly could after about grade 12: I didn't want stuff like this going around and people saying asinine crap like, "Oooh, look how much she's changed in two decades!" Uh, duh. Let's dismiss who we are now with the way we had to present ourselves whilst under the roof of our parents.
If you still pretty much look like your yearbook photo from twenty years previous, "UR DOIN IT RONG." Or else your obsession with the plastic surgeon and glory days ("high school's the best years of your life!") is something which can only be described as a pathology.
That said, Rachel's necklace and matching earrings back then is total lulzy. I suspect she wasn't pleased about having to do this in the slightest.
OMFG RACHEL?!!!!!!!! Recognition was instant, but I'd easily believe it was a photoshop. Her face is exactly the same, but the rest of her just doesn't fit, somehow. I like her much better as she is today.
I've always been a straight girl, but would totally be willing to help Rachel earn her toaster oven, no matter what she looked like (though she always looks lovely). She has the most beautiful brain...plus grace and dignity.
Instead, she's Queen of All Lefty Media, and America's hunkiest dyke. It's wonderful.
I always think she looks like a drag queen when she's femmed out (like when MSNBC puts her in heavy eye shadow), but maybe I'm just projecting.
Also, anyone seen her recent reporting in Kabul? It's so weird seeing her in a head scarf.
On a less relevant note, she blew past Portia De Rossi as straight males most desired lesbian about 2 years ago. This pic certainly isn't going to hurt that sentiment.
Personally, I like her current look the best, whether she's on-air or not.
i love rachel!! she's even better looking now.
yeah-
she's definitely the best thing the Left has...
which is why Fox kicks ass with one hand behind its back.
when will you hipsters learn-
smoking hot perky blonde newsbabe
trumps
smarmy smug dyke.
e v e r y t i m e.
He should offer to have her baby....
This old stuff spilling out as a consequence of being a highly public figure is probably a big reason — possibly the biggest — why I chose early on to stay as private as I possibly could after about grade 12: I didn't want stuff like this going around and people saying asinine crap like, "Oooh, look how much she's changed in two decades!" Uh, duh. Let's dismiss who we are now with the way we had to present ourselves whilst under the roof of our parents.
If you still pretty much look like your yearbook photo from twenty years previous, "UR DOIN IT RONG." Or else your obsession with the plastic surgeon and glory days ("high school's the best years of your life!") is something which can only be described as a pathology.
That said, Rachel's necklace and matching earrings back then is total lulzy. I suspect she wasn't pleased about having to do this in the slightest.
That being said, it's really only the hair that's changed. Her face now is very much what it was when she was a teenager.
And yeah, I'm a straight dude.
Then I saw the neck mole and I blushed a little on the inside. I love her so!