HOT GALLERY: Happy 52nd Birthday, Tom Cruise!
By Snakkle StaffBefore Tom Cruise skidded across those famous Risky Business hardwood floors in his socks and tighty-whities (and into the hearts of millions of women around the world), he was just a shaggy-haired prepster at Glen Ridge High School in New Jersey. Born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV to mother Mary Lee Pfeiffer and Thomas Cruise Mapother III in Syracuse, New York, Cruise grew up without much money in a strictly Catholic family. Before this pic was taken, the now-famous Scientologist was actually thinking about becoming a priest after spending time at St. Francis boarding school in Cincinnati, Ohio. He told Dotson Rader back in 2006, “I looked at the priesthood and said, ‘Listen, this is what I’m going to do. They [the Catholic Church] would pay for the boarding school for a year. I knew being there would help my family financially.”