Before They Were Stars
Happy 18th Birthday Gabby Douglas: Check out the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Before the Fame!
Happy 18th Birthday to Gabby Douglas! Take a look at some of Team USA’s shining stars before they were stars... By Nina Hämmerling Smith
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Kobe Bryant as a Freshman at Lower Merion High School in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, in 1993 and Kobe Bryant in 2012
Kobe Bryant has always been a star; picked Most Likely to Succeed in high school, Bryant skipped college and went straight into the NBA, where he’s played for the L.A. Lakers—and won five NBA championships—since 1996. A member of the 2008 gold medal-winning team, he’s a bona fide international superstar. In fact, after an Olympic match against the Tunisian team, one of the opposing players presented him with his sneaker and a pen and asked for his autograph.
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