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tdy_celebrity_schooldays[i++] = new Array("","Kid Rock<br>aka Robert Ritchie","","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Art/TODAY/PROJECTS/Celeb_Schooldays/kidrock_hdr4.jpg","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "191", "400", "", "", "", "", "");
tdy_celebrity_schooldays[i-1].body = "<br><B>He was just a pebble then</b>: Before he was music sensation Kid Rock, he was just Robert Ritchie, a senior at Romeo High School, Mich. By the time this photo was taken, though, he was already doing talent shows in nearby Detroit, which led to a six-figure record deal. But that soon fizzled, and it wasn&#146;t until he moved to New York that he hit the big time.<br><img src=\"http://g.msn.com/USTT01/10?http://msnbc.msn.com/images/cleardot.gif&&cm=tdy_celebrity_schooldays&ce=1&hl=Kid%20Rock\" width=1 height=1>";

tdy_celebrity_schooldays[i++] = new Array("","Jennifer Lopez","","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Art/TODAY/PROJECTS/Celeb_Schooldays/lopez_hdr4.jpg","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "175", "400", "", "", "", "", "");
tdy_celebrity_schooldays[i-1].body = "<br><b>Yes, that&#146;s the junior J.Lo:</b> Jennifer Lopez, the middle of three daughters, went to an all-girls Catholic school in her hometown, The Bronx, a borough of New York City. She played softball and tennis in high school and also was a gymnast. A couple of years after this photo was taken, she left home to pursue a show-business career.<br><img src=\"http://g.msn.com/USTT01/10?http://msnbc.msn.com/images/cleardot.gif&&cm=tdy_celebrity_schooldays&ce=2&hl=Jlo\" width=1 height=1>";

tdy_celebrity_schooldays[i++] = new Array("","Britney Spears","","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Art/TODAY/PROJECTS/Celeb_Schooldays/spears_hdr4.jpg","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "175", "400", "", "", "", "", "");
tdy_celebrity_schooldays[i-1].body = "<br><b>How she&#146;s grown!</b> Britney was just a second grader when this picture was snapped at the Park Lane Academy, the private school she attended until 1994. But she already had showbiz aspirations &#150; aided by dance classes and gymnastics -- which resulted in her becoming a Mouseketeer on Disney&#146;s &#147;Mickey Mouse Club&#148; in 1989. <br><img src=\"http://g.msn.com/USTT01/10?http://msnbc.msn.com/images/cleardot.gif&&cm=tdy_celebrity_schooldays&ce=3&hl=Spears\" width=1 height=1><p>";

tdy_celebrity_schooldays[i++] = new Array("","Jessica Simpson","","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Art/TODAY/PROJECTS/Celeb_Schooldays/simpson_hdr5.jpg","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "175", "400", "", "", "", "", "");
tdy_celebrity_schooldays[i-1].body = "<br><b>Not such a dumb blonde:</b> Although her public persona is as a ditzy doofus, Jessica Simpson is reported to have a very high I.Q. and did well at her school in Richardson, Texas, where she was elected homecoming queen &#150; twice! She honed her musical skills in her local church, where her father was the minister, but unlike Britney Spears failed an audition to be a Mouseketeer.<br><img src=\"http://g.msn.com/USTT01/10?http://msnbc.msn.com/images/cleardot.gif&&cm=tdy_celebrity_schooldays&ce=4&hl=Simpson\" width=1 height=1>";

tdy_celebrity_schooldays[i++] = new Array("","Avril Lavigne","","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Art/TODAY/PROJECTS/Celeb_Schooldays/lavigne_hdr4.jpg","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "175", "400", "", "", "", "", "");
tdy_celebrity_schooldays[i-1].body = "<br><b>Avril, is that you?</b> By the time this picture was taken in her small hometown in Ontario, Canada, Avril Lavigne was already writing and performing the edgy, angst-ridden music that was to propel her to stardom. In fact, she dropped out of the school in 11th grade when she garnered a record deal during a trip to New York City.<br><img src=\"http://g.msn.com/USTT01/10?http://msnbc.msn.com/images/cleardot.gif&&cm=tdy_celebrity_schooldays&ce=5&hl=Lavigne\" width=1 height=1>";

tdy_celebrity_schooldays[i++] = new Array("","Kirsten Dunst","","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Art/TODAY/PROJECTS/Celeb_Schooldays/dunst_hdr4.jpg","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "175", "400", "", "", "", "", "");
tdy_celebrity_schooldays[i-1].body = "<br><b>You&#146;d know that smile anywhere:</B> Kirsten Dunst was already a child model and actress when this picture was taken at her North Hollywood school. In fact, she was only a couple of years away from her breakthrough in &#147;Interview with a Vampire.&#148; Born in New Jersey, Dunst moved to California with her mother after her parents divorced.<br><img src=\"http://g.msn.com/USTT01/10?http://msnbc.msn.com/images/cleardot.gif&&cm=tdy_celebrity_schooldays&ce=6&hl=Dunst\" width=1 height=1>";

tdy_celebrity_schooldays[i++] = new Array("","Pamela Anderson","","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Art/TODAY/PROJECTS/Celeb_Schooldays/anderson_hdr4.jpg","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "175", "400", "", "", "", "", "");
tdy_celebrity_schooldays[i-1].body = "<br><b>She&#146;s not a real blonde!</b> Yes, fans, the statuesque Canadian beauty had dark locks when she posed for her sophomore photo at her school in British Columbia. Anderson&#146;s modeling career got its start when she was snapped among a group of kids at a library in her hometown, Comox. She was later &#147;discovered&#148; and launched her career in the pages of Playboy magazine.<br><img src=\"http://g.msn.com/USTT01/10?http://msnbc.msn.com/images/cleardot.gif&&cm=tdy_celebrity_schooldays&ce=7&hl=Anderson\" width=1 height=1>";

tdy_celebrity_schooldays[i++] = new Array("","Christina Aguilera","","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Art/TODAY/PROJECTS/Celeb_Schooldays/aguilera_hdr4.jpg","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "175", "400", "", "", "", "", "");
tdy_celebrity_schooldays[i-1].body = "<br><b>She was so cute!</b> Aguilera&#146;s singing talent was evident at a young age, but her penchant for outrageous outfits and on-the-edge behavior was still many years away when this picture was snapped at her elementary school in Rochester, Pa., a small town near Pittsburgh. Around the time this picture was made, she appeared on &#147;Star Search&#148; &#150; and lost.<br><img src=\"http://g.msn.com/USTT01/10?http://msnbc.msn.com/images/cleardot.gif&&cm=tdy_celebrity_schooldays&ce=8&hl=Aguilera\" width=1 height=1>";

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tdy_celebrity_schooldays[i-1].body = "<br><b>Too cool for school?</b> The &#147;Pearl Harbor&#148; star &#150; and former flame of Jennifer Lopez (see her school picture elsewhere in the feature) &#150; was a pretty cool character long before he hit the big time. Affleck&#146;s school, in Cambridge, Mass., the home of Harvard University, is also the alma mater of ex-New York Knicks star center Patrick Ewing.<br><img src=\"http://g.msn.com/USTT01/10?http://msnbc.msn.com/images/cleardot.gif&&cm=tdy_celebrity_schooldays&ce=9&hl=Affleck\" width=1 height=1>";

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tdy_celebrity_schooldays[i-1].body = "<br><b>They think he&#146;s cool at his old school:</b> After he founded the Justin Timberlake Foundation &#150; an organization to inspire people to pursue music &#150; the first grant went to his elementary alma mater in Tennessee. Not long after this photo, Timberlake made it onto the &#147;Mickey Mouse Club,&#148; where he encountered both Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera.<br><img src=\"http://g.msn.com/USTT01/10?http://msnbc.msn.com/images/cleardot.gif&&cm=tdy_celebrity_schooldays&ce=10&hl=Timberlake\" width=1 height=1>";

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