Everyone loves a “rags to riches” story – especially in Hollywood and all its stories of a talented, young kid plucked from an underprivileged life and thrown into super stardom. But what about the “rich to richer” celebrities? Not every A-List actor or Billboard pop star waited tables to scrape by until they got their big break. Some of them had more than a little help from their well-connected family or a top-notch theater programs at elite (and expensive) colleges. Click through this gallery to find out who had it a tad easier breaking into the fame game over other stars who struggled to find fame.

Snakkle looks back on celebs who shared locker rooms or swapped saliva or (allegedly) joints together. Click through this “Before They Were Stars” photo gallery to see unlikely classmates and recognizable BFFs.

As another year of graduates look ahead with excitement for what the future will hold for them, you have to wonder who among them might be our next great actors, athletes, scholars, or even future presidents of the United States. You might be surprised at the humble (and remarkably fashion-awkward) graduation looks of some of today’s biggest movers and shakers. Snakkle wants to know if you can pick out some graduates that have most definitely succeeded.

Singer, actress, icon: Cher has had one heck of a career—and a love life. Snakkle celebrates Cher’s impressive array of fine fellas. Never shy about speaking her mind, Cher nonetheless demurred when David Letterman asked her just how many fellas: “We’re not talking Cleopatra numbers here.” Nonetheless, we’re impressed. So, Cher, this is your life… in men!

Parents often want their kids to go into the family business. There are father and son quarterbacks, and father and son combos in all sorts of sports. When your mom or dad is in the music business, you don’t always follow in the parental footsteps. Then again, sometimes you do. Here are a variety of then-and-now photos of famous music superstars and their kids, many of whom have music careers of their own and a few who went a different route.

Snakkle looks back on current and past DWTS contestants… See what they looked like before the glitz and glamor!

Not many public figures are more interesting or inspiring than Chaz Bono—than the transgender advocate, who started his life as Chastity. Snakkle looks back at Bono’s life in pictures.