Hot Gallery: See the Cast of Dancing with the Stars Before They Were Famous

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Kellie Pickler

This former high school cheerleader and beauty queen has clearly always been a multitalented woman. She pursued a singing career and made it the sixth round of American Idol Season 5. Since then, she's been busy songwriting and recording professionally and recently joined the cast of Season 16 of Dancing With The Stars. Pickler famously shaved her head back in September of 2012 in support of her childhood friend who was diagnosed with breast cancer... she has since grown it out into the adorable pixie seen on the show, proving that less is more! After an emotional last dance, Kellie Pickler was pronounced Season 16's champion!

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Sean Lowe

This hunk and a half is a TV import from Season 8 of The Bachelorette. After losing out in the finale he became Season 17's Bachelor and as if bagging a gorgeous fiancée wasn't enough, joined Dancing With The Stars's Season 16 cast. He's come a long way from Lamar High School in Houston, Texas, but this football player proves that athleticism can translate to grace on the dance floor.

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Wynonna Judd

Here's Wynonna in 1981 as a Junior at Franklin High School, Franklin, Tennessee. Another country music star, Wynonna Judd has her mother Naomi to thank for initial success as part of The Judds. A string of number one hits later and Wynonna is now performing with partner and season 15 champion Tony Dolovani of Dancing With The Stars.

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Lisa Vanderpump With Her Dog Giggy

Vanderpump was an aspiring actress in the '90s and worked sporadically on programs like Silk Stalkings and Baywatch Nights. She eventually found her true calling as a successful restaurateur. However, Vanderpump decided to return to TV in 2010 as herself on the Bravo reality show The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Now the star has joined the Season 16 cast of Dancing With The Stars, complete with her beloved pooch, Giggy. We don't know what strings Lisa had to pull, but she also garnered an onstage spot for little Giggy during one of her performances.

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Andy Dick

Funnyman Andy Dick has come a long way from Joliet West High School. From dressing up as superhero "Super Dick" to making a national name for himself as a rib-tickling comedian, Dick will undoubtedly dazzle us all with his nimble wit and (hopefully) feet on Season 16 of Dancing With The Stars.

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J.R. Martinez

Before former All My Children actor J.R. Martinez won over the hearts of millions of fans on DWTS with his graceful moves and powerful story, he served in the Army in the 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division. Not even in Iraq for a month, J.R. was in a Humvee that hit a land mine, causing him to suffer smoke inhalation and burns to over 40 percent of his body.

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J.R. Martinez at the Rodeo

In 2009, J.R. performed at the Pasadena Livestock Show & Rodeo Grounds in Pasadena, Texas.

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J.R. Martinez on All My Children

Prior to gracing the dance floor, J.R. moonlighted on an episode of ABC's All My Children in 2010.

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J.R. Martinez and Circle of Care

J.R. poses with David Arquette at the Circle of Care Foundation's Ultimate Trunk Show in Beverly Hills earlier this year.

J.R. Martinez and Kara Smirnoff dancing with the stars

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Victory on Dancing with the Stars

J.R. and his partner Karina Smirnoff danced their booties off for weeks, and in the end, won America's heart. They were named Dancing with the Stars champs and awarded the Mirrorball trophy Tuesday, November 22, 2011.

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Ricki Lake

Luckily for young Ricki Lake, a good dancer should never be afraid of big hair. Here she is sporting a classic '80s look in 1983 at Hastings on the Hudson High School in Hastings on Hudson, New York.

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Ricki Lake in Hairspray

Before Nikki (Blonsky), there was Ricki. Back in 1988, Ricki Lake starred as Tracy Turnblad in John Waters' Hairspray.

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Rob Kardashian

Rob Kardashian was simply "adorbz" in his fourth-grade photo from Buckley School in Sherman Oaks, California (1997). And it certainly is nice to see Rob finally take a spin into the spotlight without his sisters on this season's DWTS.

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Rob Kardashian, 1997

Young Rob wasn't afraid to rock a loud print in his high school days at Buckley High in Los Angeles.

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Rob and the Fam, 1998

Rob poses with his famous family, including dad Robert Kardashian, in 1998 at Marymount High School in Los Angeles.

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A Very White Christmas

Merry Christmas from the seasonally inappropriate Kardashian/Jenner family! Bet Santa's feeling a little overdressed in this picture taken from Kourtney Kardashian's 1998 yearbook.

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Hope Solo

Soccer phenom Hope Solo shows her girly side in this family picture from her senior yearbook at Richland High School, Richland, Washington (1999).

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Nancy Grace

So, former Court TV anchor Nancy Grace found a look that worked for her in 2004 and has... stuck with it. Luckily, DWTS came along and showed her how extensions and sequins can punch up any legal commentator's wardrobe.

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Chynna Phillips

You know, some people just win the lottery in the gene pool department. And Chynna Phillips shows off her good fortune in this adorable picture from an outing at the First Annual Rock and Roll Sports Classic in 1978.

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David Arquette

Thank you, late '80s, for allowing this combo of spiky hair, jewel-toned jacket, and yin/yang bolo tie to live on through a yearbook photo. David Arquette sure rocked those shoulder pads, too, in his senior year at Fairfax High School in Los Angeles (1989).

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Chaz Bono

We love a mullet, and Chaz Bono (then known as Chastity Bono while attending LaGuardia High School of Music and the Arts in New York City in 1987) delivers in this awesome high school yearbook photo.

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Carson Kressley

Oh, Carson, what would you say now about your super-preppy style back in your sophomore year at Northwestern Lehigh High School in New Tripoli, Pennsylvania (1985)? We can only imagine.