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“What Happened To The Good-Looking Ultra-Popular Kids That Had It All In High School?” (45 Answers)
Everyone knows those people who, during school, seemed like they were the kings and queens of the universe. They were liked, respected, everything in the world seemed to be going their way. But high school isn’t the real world, so there is no blanket rule for how success in this field carries over to university and jobs.
Someone asked “What happened to the good-looking ultra-popular kids that had it all in high school?” and people shared their stories. So get comfortable as you read through, upvote your favorites and be sure to share your own tales in the comments section below.
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#1
The most popular girl in my graduating class (and I do mean ***most*** popular; she made an effort to make friends with literally everyone), head cheerleader, is now the head director at the local homeless shelter.
She never married, has no kids, 37. Still an absolute babe.
StrangeOne 1 year ago
Some people really did deserve their popularity. I think that's super great she's used her life for the better good.
Cooking Panda 1 year ago
It's nice to see people doing what they love despite not going 'big' & actually making impact for people in need 🧡
keyboardtek 1 year ago
The straight A swim team hero from my high school led Microsoft’s work in applying technology for public good. He now runs the computer history museum.
Lee Henderson 1 year ago
I graduated HS in 1978. For every class reunion the popular clique handled the notifications. I was finally invited to the 40th year reunion as the popular clique only invited those they liked to the previous ones
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#2
She went on to become a world traveler and Buddhist and now runs a non-profit providing microloans to female-owned global businesses.
She was also my first real crush, and I'm so happy she lived up to my silent pedestal.
Miki 1 year ago
Microloans to global businesses? What global business would need a microloan? I don't get it :((
Tom Brincefield 1 year ago
Probably means micro loans to businesses around globe.
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I got voted most popular at my high school. Prom king, Captain of the football team type stuff. myb8th grade summer the best advice I ever received from my older sister was to be nice to everyone when you start high school. Geeks, loners, punkers, jocks, band kids. I was nice to all of them. I'm 38 now and people from high school put on their best face when they see me because I treated them like a friend. My life is really good because I was kind.
StrangeOne 1 year ago
I've gone to school with people like this. I loved the people who got along with every group and outcast. Made going to school bearable at times.
Ouss Ben Aziza 1 year ago (edited)
I was both the loner kid (middle school) and the super popular guy (high school to uni). I became popular because of said lovable popular pretty ppl who were nice to me and gave me the confidence i needed as a loner and i wanted to extend that when i myself got good at social stuff.
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Catpawsarethebest 1 year ago
Aww I like how positive the replies are! Great that popular kids were nice both back then and now!
DarkViolet 1 year ago
In high school, it was easy for me to be kind to other students. I hung out with just about everyone, particularly with one girl who was quirky but fun. 30 years later, she told me that high school was hell on earth for her. She was falsely accused of selling d***s, had her locker set on fire, and with the exception of one other student and me, was pretty much shunned. She told me that if I hadn't been nice to her, she probably wouldn't be here today. It still blows my mind. Be kind; you could be saving a life.
Rabbit Of ill Portent(she/her) 1 year ago
I can't love this enough 🥰 what lovely and sage advice from an obviously wonderful sister 😊 thinking about the ripple effect she started just by simply telling her little bro fantastic advice
Lulu Lemons 1 year ago
I was kind to everyone and got taken advantage of :/ but to be fair I think I was the exception not the norm, I went to a really awful school
#4
Prom king and queen got married shortly after high school. Forty years later, they live within 5 miles of the farms where they grew up. They made some athletic, attractive kids along the way.
#5
One of them put a catheter in my wiener when I had surgery.
robin aldrich 1 year ago (edited)
OMG...so...the greeting was "oh hi, how you been...um...ow!!!"
#6
I’d do the split like this: popular and mean to others vs. popular and positive with others. The popular and positive all did well in life and careers. The meanies lost whatever advantages they had in school to their own nastiness.
Traveling Lady Railfan 1 year ago
Some people create their own storms, and then get mad when it rains
keyboardtek 1 year ago
One of my goals is to out live the kids who bullied me through my youth! So far so good. Two guys died from lung cancer in their 50's because smoking was considered the tough guy thing to do.
Auntriarch 1 year ago
And when they're all dead... outlive them some more! With knøbs on!
Load More Replies... Lululoohoo 1 year ago
can attest to this: a lot of the meanies peaked in high school & are doing jackdiddly squat with their lives while having also gained 100lbs.
Kali Chaos 1 year ago
It costs nothing to be kind. My mama always said to be careful bc the toes you step on today might be connected to the a*s you have to kiss tomorrow.
#7
He went to Harvard. Works in finance and married a stunningly beautiful woman who works for Google.
They live in London. I’m not jealous of much in life, but his string of wins challenges my equanimity.
Joshua David 1 year ago
This is one of the 1k reasons I dont use social media. Not the aspect of seeing someone succeeding and feeling left behind, but more I'd just rather mind my own business and remeber them as they were.
Binky Melnik 1 year ago
I stopped using social media when it demonstrated that too many people I love and care about are completely stupid, believing in conspiracy theories, they’re anti-vax, they believe the 🐎💩 that comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth, and so on. I was so disillusioned, I couldn’t bear to lose any more people I care about, so I quit looking at it. There’s no good there. 😞
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keyboardtek 1 year ago
Achievement does have a price. One must keep in mind that once one achieves a level of financial prosperity, stop and take a breather and enjoy some free time and experience the simpler things in the world. Avoid burn out at all costs. Some people never recover from it.
#8
She became a kick a*s nurse; she was on the healthcare professionals team who helped one of my friends give birth to healthy twins.
#9
I'm in my early 30s now and I can't even remember off the top of my head what the good looking ultra popular kids at my high school were named. If I had to guess they probably got good jobs and have successful lives, but those people had so little impact on my life that I couldn't begin to care less.
Kalikima 1 year ago
Thank you! I couldn't tell you who the popular kids were in high school, much less what they're doing 25+ years later..
Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
The only one I remember at all is in prison for using his dad's yacht to traffick large quantities of drvgs. And I only remember him/that is because a friend brought it up at a drinks night recently.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
At our high school we were "tracked" academically, and so I took all my classes all four years with the same 18 people. I barely knew the other people in my graduating class.
Lavern Defazio 1 year ago
I'm so glad I'm not in high school anymore. I don't remember who the popular people were and i dont care. But I do remember my biology teacher that always has huge dry boogers hanging out of his nose.
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
Same here (except being in 60s). I don't think we had such a person. It certainly wasn't I.
#10
Popular guy went to MIT and shortly after got disowned by his parents for coming out as gay. He was popular for being smart, charismatic and a genuinely good guy. He and his husband are doing well for themself nowadays.
Popular girl went to a prestigious university and became a nurse. Similar to the popular guy, she is a genuinely good person so everyone still loved her. I’ve run into her several times over the years and she’s still the same nice person. She could model if she wanted to but she really does care about folks and considered it a personal mission to help others via healthcare.
We had several self-proclaimed popular people in our high school who were self absorbed a******s. The 3 most notable is the guy who got kicked out of college when he tested positive for steroids and m*******a. He was also on a full ride scholarship before getting kicked out. He never completed any higher education to this day and has fallen into addiction.
A girl who was very attractive and also self-proclaimed popular became an escort and eventually married a wealthy client. Husband recently attempted to run for Mayor of the city and lost big time.
2nd girl who was also very attractive became a model, got knocked up without knowing who the father was, got into an abusive relationship, ran away, got knocked up by another guy who left shortly after she gave birth and finally she decided to get her s**t together. Last I heard she’s finishing college to become a nurse and she lives with her parents.
Max Pasterski 1 year ago
Why is being gay such a bad thing to these people? You can’t actually control if you are gay or straight.
Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
Because heterosexuality has been promoted as "normal" for the last couple of hundred years and people have a habit of hating anything they don't consider "normal".
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#11
Went to Stanford, became a cancer researcher, founded a nonprofit, got a PhD and MD from Harvard + MIT, now works on rare children’s diseases. Solid guy.
Me Oh My (He/They) 1 year ago
Maybe it's just me, but I like it more than saying "well done." Saying well done implies that you only respect the achievements, not the person. However, saying "solid guy" implies that you respect the person, which to me is more important than the achievements.
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Steve Hall 1 year ago
Working on rare diseases is ok but we really need to get a handle on the common diseases too.
DarkViolet 1 year ago
By working on rare diseases, researchers can identify characteristics found in both common and rare diseases.
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They went to college or the workplace and found out they were just average.
Mike Rodrick 1 year ago
& now the lower class are those in demand because they went to trade schools & have skills they can use for the rest of their lives while the higher class bitches about how much the trades people charge for their services. Karma strikes again!
keyboardtek 1 year ago
The top student in my high school went to Harvard and dropped out because it was so hard for him.
#13
Failed musician and cryptobro who spent the pandemic posting videos of himself arguing with store staff about masks.
James Frail 1 year ago
I call BS on this one. If this is who I think it is, there's no way he was attractive or popular in high school.
what (she/they/it?) 1 year ago
"cryptobro (plural cryptobros) (slang, sometimes derogatory) An enthusiastic cryptocurrency supporter, usually male, especially a dogmatic, condescending one."
#14
She became a b-grade celebrity, came out as lesbian and was lauded for her bravery, started a social justice campaign for the rainbow community and against bullying until it was revealed that she'd also been the worst bully at our school, especially towards lesbian and bi girls. She's kept her head down since. .
Alexandra 1 year ago
Maybe, but making up for something also means acknowledging the wrong you did.
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catastrophegirl 1 year ago
young people in the closet get weird. i was the first out bi (now pan, i didn't know that term in the 90s) girl in my high school. a girl i was sort of friendly with was nice to me but kept bringing up anti gay religion/sin. many many years later she looked me up on social media to apologize and tell me it was because she had a crush on me and was internalizing the homophobia that her parents raised her with. she's much better now and happily married to a lovely woman.
Alyssa Phillips 1 year ago
Lots of context would be needed, but I like to think some people can change and grow. I don't believe many things I used to
H. B. Nielsen 1 year ago
Sounds exactly like the stories I've read about Demi Lovato. Tons of stories about actually being a horrendous bully in school.
Load More Replies... Lavern Defazio 1 year ago
Some people can change for the better. Some don't...orange man example.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Some people bully gays precisely to deny and repress their own homosexuality.
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
My athletes partner gave me impetus for training by constantly calling my brother a f*g. Turns out they both were.
#15
My friend likes to send me the prom king's latest mugshot.
David Hopkins 1 year ago
From a former cop, the handcuffs in that stock photo are not the real thing. They're a child's toy.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
BP always uses notoriously terrible stock photos XD
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Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
You're responding to a scraped reddit thread from some time ago on a completely unrelated site as though the op will see your comment. Think you need something better to do with your adulthood too.
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#16
The very beautiful popular girl in my grade pulled a papertowns by dropping contact with pretty much everyone and moved to South Africa where she seems to live a fairly luxurious life now. Pretty cool move if you ask me.
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
If she had a lot of US dollars in savings, then yeah, it's possible to live a VERY luxurious life. If she had saved, say, $10,000, then she would have R200,000 here. It's not enough to buy a house (those run into the millions, especially in a place like Cape Town) but it's enough to put down a deposit. If she works remotely and is paid in dollars, then she's smiling. Just multiply her salary in dollars by 20!
Přemek Marek 1 year ago
Just multiply the salary by 20? So what costs USD 10 would also cost R 10?
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§• Råinbow Påndå •§ 1 year ago
South Africa? Where? Cape Town? Why? Why South Africa of all places? Weather is awesome but the power outages that go thrice a week at like 8 hours a day. Screw you Eskom
Binky Melnik 1 year ago
“Papertowns”? Is this a typo? Nothing shows up on Google for it, and the context isn’t helping. Can anyone translate, please?
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
Someone on Reddit said "I think it's a reference to the book/movie by John Greene (it's not very good) but the romantic interest runs away and the protagonist thinks she wants to be found but she doesn't."
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Deceased. Motorcycle accident. He was nice, funny, generous, and kind of a rascal. So basically everybody liked him. He was in med school when he died.
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
One of the most popular guys in my school, William (also called Mark by some people) died of a brain tumour. :(
Steve Hall 1 year ago
Quite a few of the kids I went to high school with only lasted a few years after graduation. Most of them have passed in the last fifty yeary.
MalibuClassicMan 1 year ago
Life happens, people die every day, regardless of who they are or what they did in life
#18
This girl was super popular since primary school. Really smart too, straight As student but also she got all the jock boyfriends., I don’t know how popular she was in university but she went overseas, came back with a law degree and then started her line of couture handbags. She was really living the high life appearing in fashion magazines, runways, VVIP parties, brushing shoulders with royalties etc. Suddenly she vanished from social media for about a year turns out she went to a rehab (a very fancy one by the beach). Then she started posting weird things on her Facebook, things that don’t make sense then turns out she has bipolar disorder. Now, she still lives with her mom.
#19
Most of them were good-looking and ultra-popular because they came from stable if not affluent financial backgrounds. They got the acne treatments they needed, were able to buy nice clothes, were much more experienced navigating social situations, etc. So plenty of them just kept that momentum going and had good successful college experiences, and entered successful careers. Anecdotally, when I've met these people now I always get this weird intuition like they're not fully self aware?
Plenty of others peaked in high school though, and their lives went downhill afterward. And plenty of them lived privileged lives that self destructed after a point. There are some particular karmic situations I've seen.
I dunno...everything happens to everyone. I was at my lowest point ever in high school, so I get to experience life as only getting better from there :).
Pheebs 1 year ago
I was in the hidden middle in high school - small group of nerdy friends, nice to most people, but utterly forgettable. I do still live in the general area of the school I attended, and have on a couple of occasions seen someone I thought I might have graduated with. Hard to say, as my area has 3 high schools within 5 miles of each other. I am still genuinely shocked on the ultra rare occasions someone says they recognize me from school.
pineapple87 1 year ago
Same. I struggled with undiagnosed depression throughout high school and didn't fit in anywhere except my church youth group. Thus, my mission was to get through it with as little effort as possible. Consequently, when 10 years later in grad school I suddenly found myself becoming popular, finally living out all my high school fantasies definitely became a thing
keyboardtek 1 year ago
In high school the smart kids are often snobs who have no patience even talking to an average grade student and the bullies are often the low achievers who are bullies because the smart kids treated them like dirt.
#20
I'm from a small town.
So most of those people still live within an hour of that small town. Just doing regular person s**t.
The most successful person was probably the co-valedictorian. They were not pretty or popular. Last I saw on LinkedIn they were Chief of Medicine at some hospital on the west coast.
#21
After graduation, no one in the real world gave a c**p about who they were or what they did in high school. No one. Also, having attended a couple class reunions now, I’ve observed that most of the popular guys are now overweight and balding. The popular girls are no longer thin, and seem to have older-looking faces than the “nerd” girls. Back in high school, I never would have believed this would happen to them, but it has.
Mia C 1 year ago
I guess we all age differently. I dated the high school jock and when he dumped me like a cheap piece of meat I thought I was going to DIE. 25 years later this extremely overweight bald man came up to me asking if I remembered him. I said no because I didn't. Well, it was him. Time can be unforgiving
#22
The good looking ultra-popular kids in my high school went to good schools, got good jobs, and became really successful adults. One became a doctor, one became a union president, one became a toy exec and married an exec on a streaming platform, one was a professional football player for a few years. 30 years on, they're still good looking and charismatic.
Not high school, but a kid I was in grade school with became a famous actor with a beloved TV role. He was a really nice kid on top of being absurdly good looking and very popular. We went to different high schools but I ran into him occasionally and he very much fit the thread.
Edit: I never said any of these kids were rich. I'm not sure where you guys got that idea but it's coming up enough I wanted to address it here. A long time ago there was a hill in my hometown where all the rich people lived. They seceded from the city and made their own city so their taxes wouldn't be used to help the poors. Rich kids didn't go to my high school.
#23
3 of them became chiropractors in my area. Nothing against the dudes, but I laugh hard every time I see an online advertisement from one of them thats local. His business name references alchemy which just is wicked amusing given the snake-oil reputation chiropractors have.
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
I guess these were the ones who were good at manipulating people...
two-sided llama 1 year ago
Alchemy is where you change materials into a different material through the power of magic. I highly doubt that. Also are you talking about chemistry
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#24
The only one I knew well ( I was in the Art/Theater/Music crowd) was class president and a basketball star in high school, went to state college, married young, became a pilot. Very nice human.
I ran into him in a bar about 15 years later. He was in his second marriage and seemed to be doing OK.
He told me high school was the best time of his life, which made me sad for him. .
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
High school was the WORST time of my life. I went to my school's 30th reunion and it just served to remind me why I don't usually go to those things. But I'm glad I went, since the food at the restaurant was really good!
Lavern Defazio 1 year ago
High school was awful. I wish we had specialized schools that are available now. I might have finished instead of running off to Hollywood at 15...no regrets though.
Lyoness 1 year ago
Agreed. I switched high schools in my final year and went from being relatively well known and (I hoped) fairly well liked to being bullied horrifically. I hated every minute of that year.
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#25
In my high school the popular kids were the ones who participated in theater and music and such, because it was just that kind of place. As such, the good-looking ultra popular kids at my high school grew up to be popular good-looking music, film and television stars. A couple are very well known names in film, one is a popular stand up comic and is on a popular TV show. Another is an incredibly popular DJ in Southeast Asia. A couple went on to be renowned orchestral performers. One of my best friends growing up has been a big name in local live theater for decades. So that kind of thing.
#26
They are a bartender at a small town bar in the middle of nowhere that still let's you smoke cigarettes inside. I was very surprised when she asked if I wanted an ashtray with my drink.
Bewarethere@gmail.com 1 year ago
Hey kids don't have 2 b everywhere and non smokers need not apply
Lavern Defazio 1 year ago
Sounds like a decent simple life. Not for me,but still sounds quaint until the town drunk comes in.
#27
Became a stock broker, developed d**g and p**n addiction, got low, got clean, married a mormon woman. Got her addicted to crack. Continued to smoke crack with his mormon wife, get her pregnant, get arrested for fraud and sent to prison last I checked.
#28
A few became touring musicians. One became a commercial and b movie actor. One got fifth in the Olympics. One played minor league baseball, but d***s caught up to him. One woman became a p**nstar and died of an overdose. A few of the best athletes I played with committed s*****e because they weren't good enough to go pro.
Kristal 1 year ago
I'd really like to know how this person KNOWS the motivations behind those suicides. Suicide letters aren't really shown to people outside the family, if there's a note at all.
AnkleByter 1 year ago (edited)
If you live in a small town, word gets around pretty easily. One of the girls I know who took her own life, we all knew what contributed the most even before anyone read a note. Sometimes it's a hindsight sort of thing, like the person who took their own life just a couple of years ago. It wasn't obvious at first, but seeing things play out later, it was easier to see how he got there and what could possibly motivate him to think there was no other way out. In fact, it's important to figure things like this out sometimes, because it can help people recognize signs in others that help is needed before it gets to that point. It's pretty easy for just about anyone to ignore subtle, and sometimes not so subtle, warning signs. They aren't ALWAYS there, but, most of the time, they really are, we just ignore/don't see them. I always find it weird when people say "you can't know their motivation", when, in most cases, you actually can, even if only after the fact. It's actually pretty damn rare for absolutely NO SIGNS whatsoever to be present.
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#29
The popular quarterback at my school, had 3 divorces, 2 kids and works in a low end construction job.
#30
They’re lording it up in that same small town. Their last names got them everything in nowheresville, they couldn’t hack it in a real town or city.
Mother of Giants 1 year ago
This sounds like the town I live in, where having the right last name will open every door.... But only locally. If they were to try and use their name in a town or city even 20 miles away they'd get laughed out the door
#31
One looks exactly the same and is a teacher married to a doctor. They have a huge house in the city and four kids. She was just a pretty, smart, socially capable but not aggressively popular girl with professional parents and became a similarly respectable adult. I’d like to feel bitter about it but I can’t— if I were a successful doctor who could have his pick of women, I’d marry her, too. One became a teacher at our high school. He was funny and class president and everyone legitimately liked him. I guess it’s kind of strange he found his place where he was successful as a kid and just stayed there but I think his genuine love for the place probably adds to his appeal to the kids.
#32
I graduated high school in 2019. The most popular girl in my high school won miss teen *our state* (her first beauty pageant) and now is a supporting character in a few box office horror movies. She was always the kindest person. Always had guys fawning over her. But worked at Dairy Queen all through high school and came from a poor family.
The most popular guy committed s*****e. Then his father pasted in a hurricane. And then his mother passed from cancer. Last I heard, his sister is in school to be a therapist and has a service animal for her panic attacks.
#33
One went off the deep end and never was able to come to terms with the fact that he was gay. Lots of d***s, last I heard of him. One still looks pretty good for her age but is a bit of a Facebook attention queen. Married the bowl cut dude who thought he was hot s**t. One’s got a s**t ton of kids and does well for herself. Married the stoner football jock. The other one was a POS and heroin laced with fentanyl got him. Good riddance.
KillerKiwi 1 year ago
I feel like this post is one of those rare instances where the censored word really could be dickks instead of Drügs….
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Could have been water fowl. You'll find a lot of them paddling around if you go off the deep end.
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Lavern Defazio 1 year ago
Well the red gym suit guy from Despicable Me had a bowl cut and he was pretty rad.
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He became a stock broker. Married a pretty woman, they had good looking kids. He's still married, posts pictures of his grandbabies on Facebook. Still a good guy.
#35
The dude was amazing. Tall, good-looking and talented. Everyone thought he'd be in movies, a band, or both. He wasn't stuck up, and everyone liked him.
Had a psychological break due to undiagnosed issues, got into h****n and became homeless.
#36
I lived in a town known for it's oil refineries and chemical plants. Most of the popular kids I knew got hooked up right out of high school with good jobs at the plants and are now in high-level management positions making high six figures. Some of them went to college and are entrepreneurs for various things, like one dude has his own fitness supplements and another guy has a marketing consultancy. Nearly all of the popular girls left Houston and went to college in Dallas. I don't know what they went for. They are now all in real estate or are housewives, and the majority of them married much older men. Several of them have been "grandmas" since they were around 30.
#37
Ran into him years after school, he got fat and lost much of his hair.
#38
MLMs. So many MLMs.
Karma Black 1 year ago
And I'm sure that they call themselves boss babes and entrepreneurs. That's what the ones from my school do, at least.
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
MLM= Multi Level Marketing for those who don't know. Also referred to as pyramid schemes. You know those annoying people you went to school with but never spoke to, who randomly messages you on socials about their latest and greatest product they're selling.
Becca not Becky 1 year ago
Yeah, a lot of the popular girls from my school got married young, had babies, and then got into MLMs :P
#39
Miss HS married a banker who went to federal prison for fraud. Mr. HS had been married and divorced by our 10th reunion.
Comfortably Numb 1 year ago
What are you trying to say about him? He's a loser because he fell in love, took a shot, and it didn't work out...? There's a lot of bitterness in this post
Auntriarch 1 year ago
I was expecting it to be all bitterness and schadenfreude myself, I am pleasantly surprised by how many nice ones there are
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The guys became lawyers with daddy’s firm and are all rich now. The women mostly married rich lawyers. They seem to have done quite well overall.
#41
2 Doctors, 1 dentist, 2 engineers and one in sales no one did anything huge but they live good lives.
Javelina Poppers 1 year ago
One guy was nothing special in HS, just another face in the crowd, but a genuinely nice guy and very friendly. He became our state's Attorney General.
#42
They’re having some really nice lives, surrounded by their loving extended families, making enough money to own giant homes and three giant trucks and SUVs.
#43
Most went to college, got good jobs, bought houses, married other attractive people and the cycle continues.
Lavern Defazio 1 year ago
Got some crack for ya, let's see the cycle now. Sorry. It's 116 degrees and I'm cranky.
#44
Good looking girls? Mostly flight attendants and married to pilots. The rest were into high end jobs.
#45
I believe he runs a hedge fund now. Or is high up at a hedge fund.
What do you think ?
Randy Meyer 1 year ago
Everyone always asks what happened to the popular kids. In my class (1977), they turned out well, business owners, nurses, physician. Nobody ever asks about the most unpopular kids. I was that kid. I had ADHD when there was no such thing, and I was clinically depressed, and I had both bad. My classmates and teachers thought I was stupid. I enlisted in the military, where people thought I was really intelligent. Then I went to college and became an attorney and university professor. "It's a terrible thing when the village idiot makes good." ~ Robert Frost
Kalikima 1 year ago
Ok, I graduated in '99, and I don't even remember the popular kids names, much less have any idea what they're doing now..
CanadianDimes 1 year ago
Same! I graduated in 97 and was trying to think of who the popular kids might have been. I was definitely not one of them, but I moved to a different continent and was never inclined to attend a high school reunion.
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Glitcher 1 year ago
When our first reunion rolled around, I asked my friend if he was going. "He|| no, Id rather spend that money on having a good time with friends!" This sums it up for me, too.
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
The popular guys became businessmen, and the popular girls all became physical therapists for some reason. The latter actually came in handy; I showed up at the class reunion shortly after a nasty bicycle accident so I got plenty of free advice.
similarly 1 year ago
When your clothes are ragged K-Mart specials, when four food groups aren't always in the budget, when your teeth are crooked because your parents can't afford a dentist, when your grades nosedive because your parents can't afford glasses, people look at you differently and treat you differently, and it can impact how you see yourself for the rest of your life. Add in emotional problems, domestic violence in the home, parents always working meaning less supervision at home, meaning more opportunities to get in trouble ... it adds up. Compare that to how people treat the kids in the nice, clean, well-pressed clothes, the kids with nice haircuts and straight teeth, whose parents pay someone to tutor them, who get 3 square meals a day, and whose sleep isn't interrupted by shouting neighbors and gunfire. Your childhood doesn't define the rest of your life, but it sure has an impact.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Nationally ranked high school halfback. Put all sports aside in college to concentrate on his education. Built a flourishing business which he sold off when he was 40. Went back to school to get a PhD in business. Now a professor at a major university teaching others to do what he did .
Randy Meyer 1 year ago
Everyone always asks what happened to the popular kids. In my class (1977), they turned out well, business owners, nurses, physician. Nobody ever asks about the most unpopular kids. I was that kid. I had ADHD when there was no such thing, and I was clinically depressed, and I had both bad. My classmates and teachers thought I was stupid. I enlisted in the military, where people thought I was really intelligent. Then I went to college and became an attorney and university professor. "It's a terrible thing when the village idiot makes good." ~ Robert Frost
Kalikima 1 year ago
Ok, I graduated in '99, and I don't even remember the popular kids names, much less have any idea what they're doing now..
CanadianDimes 1 year ago
Same! I graduated in 97 and was trying to think of who the popular kids might have been. I was definitely not one of them, but I moved to a different continent and was never inclined to attend a high school reunion.
Load More Replies... Glitcher 1 year ago
When our first reunion rolled around, I asked my friend if he was going. "He|| no, Id rather spend that money on having a good time with friends!" This sums it up for me, too.
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
The popular guys became businessmen, and the popular girls all became physical therapists for some reason. The latter actually came in handy; I showed up at the class reunion shortly after a nasty bicycle accident so I got plenty of free advice.
similarly 1 year ago
When your clothes are ragged K-Mart specials, when four food groups aren't always in the budget, when your teeth are crooked because your parents can't afford a dentist, when your grades nosedive because your parents can't afford glasses, people look at you differently and treat you differently, and it can impact how you see yourself for the rest of your life. Add in emotional problems, domestic violence in the home, parents always working meaning less supervision at home, meaning more opportunities to get in trouble ... it adds up. Compare that to how people treat the kids in the nice, clean, well-pressed clothes, the kids with nice haircuts and straight teeth, whose parents pay someone to tutor them, who get 3 square meals a day, and whose sleep isn't interrupted by shouting neighbors and gunfire. Your childhood doesn't define the rest of your life, but it sure has an impact.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Nationally ranked high school halfback. Put all sports aside in college to concentrate on his education. Built a flourishing business which he sold off when he was 40. Went back to school to get a PhD in business. Now a professor at a major university teaching others to do what he did .
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