Hide the Hairspray: Check Out Your Favorite Stars Sporting Seriously Big Hair
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Kelly Ripa
For New Jersey girls like Kelly Ripa, 1989 was an especially unfortunate year for those who wondered, "Do you think I should perm my bangs?"
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Mariah Carey
On a clear day in Greenlawn, New York, you can see the small hole in the ozone layer created by Mariah Carey's hairspray in 1987.
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Debra Messing
While Debra's hair was respectably big in her 1986 East Greenwich, Rhode Island, high school photo, it is nowhere near the epic frizz of an '80s Grace Adler.
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Jenny McCarthy
While attending high school in Chicago, Jenny McCarthy's skyscraping 1990 style refused to be outdone by the Sears Tower—or the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
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Eva Mendes
By 1992, most of the big '80s hair had vanished from school pictures, but Eva kept the memory alive at Hoover High School in Glendale, California.
Before she was Bridget Jones, Renee Zellweger sported the elusive '80s double bangs for senior year at Katy High School in Texas, home of big hair.
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Kimora Lee Simmons
As a senior at Lutheran North High School in St. Louis, Kimora Lee Simmons somehow found time to work as a model between all the blow-drying she must have had to do to secure this style.
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Heather Graham
You may know Heather Graham from 1997's Two Girls and a Guy, but you might not remember the 1988 high school prequel, One Girl and a Perm.
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Jayma Mays
Miss Pillsbury has curly hair! At Grundy High School in Virginia, Jayma Mays sported some seriously '90s waves.
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Chelsea Handler
Little-known fact: The New Jersey native had to take out a second space in her 1993 Livingston High School yearbook to accommodate the rest of her hair.
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Ellen Pompeo
Looking like the lost Wilson sister of Heart, Ellen Pompeo strikes a rock-star pose in her 1987 Everett, Massachusetts, high school photo.
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Nicole Kidman
At high school in Sydney in 1982, a brunette Nicole Kidman had not yet discovered the joys of hair products and flatirons.
