What Do Your Celebrity Crushes Say About You?

One of my friends is embarrassed to reveal her celebrity crush from high school. "I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours," she says. But I can't remember mine. Maybe it was Chris O'Donnell or some other handsome blue-eyed baby-faced actor.

That's Ricky in the yellow shirt. So cute!

Maybe I've etched those high school crushes out of my mind and replaced them with the psycho-babble I've been telling myself about my very first celebrity crushes.
In Kindergarten, it was Ricky Martin. From Menudo. I would keep stickers of Ricky and his Menudo boy-band members in my sticker book, appropriately marked with pink-inked hearts from my stamp collection and crooked letters attempting to spell out his name R-I-C-K-Y as if every written letter drew him closer to me.

pretty sure i had this hanging on my wall

Of course, I had no idea back then that he would come out of the closet. Back then he was just the cutest boy I'd ever seen.

Then it was George Michael. I've tried to justify this crush-on-a-gay-man by saying it wasn't just George Michael -- I also adored his Wham! bandmate, Andrew Ridgeley. Who apparently is straight. Not that anyone knew that at the time.

Does he look like Tiffany? Wearing a Debbie Gibson hat?

But all my attempts at trying to make myself sound like I wasn't just head-over-heels for gay men is thwarted for the die-hard crush I had in second grade.
Boy George.

Why was I crushing on gay men?  And what does that say about me? Does my current crush for Taye Diggs make up for my elementary school lack of gay-dar? I mean, my crush has been constant since he helped Stella get her groove back.

As for my friend who's embarrassed about her own celebrity crush? She says she swooned over Neil Young in high school. Yep. No Brad Pitt. No George Clooney. Instead she longed for a man with soul. Someone whose words and music would serenade her forever.
Totally makes sense to me.





Who was your most memorable celebrity crush?

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{Picture source: Menudo Wham! Boy George Taye Diggs Neil Young}