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Amber Rose, Joe Manganiello, and More Stars Who Used to Be Total Nerds

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Updated: Nov 15, 2016 4:45 pm·

By Tiffany White

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Braces, frizzy hair, Harry Potter. Think that's just your high school past? Think again. Celebrities like Amber Rose and Joe Manganiello went through similar awkward phases before they were famous, proving that if these former nerds can grow up hot, there's still hope for the rest of us.

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Click through the gallery to see which celebrities used to be total nerds.

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Rashida Jones was an over-achiever.

"In high school I never drank, I never smoked, I never smoked weed," she told Playboy. "I was president of the varsity club and was on the math team and then student government. I was in every activity."

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Joe Manganiello was bullied.

"I had big ears that stuck out," he said. "My parents, in order to hide my ears, then grew my hair out over my ears, and as a result, the kids called me 'fro-y joey.' And I would get punched and beat up at school and come home really hurt."

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Margot Robbie was a Potter nerd.

"Literally, the most embarrassing photo of my whole life," she said about the above photo. "I'm clearly really enjoying myself reading Harry Potter. I have braces, which I had for two years. I was really into slicking my hair back, God knows why. And I'm wearing glasses, which I didn't actually need."

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Amber Rose was an "ugly duckling."

"Hey kids if u feel like an ugly duckling don't fret," she wrote, "just look at this picture of me as a kid and know there's hope for all of us Lol."

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Jennifer Garner was unpopular.

"I was a real nerd. I wasn’t the popular one. I was one of those girls on the edge of the group," she told The Mirror. “I never wore the right clothes and I had a kind of natural geekiness. I was in the school band and I think that has a bit of a stigma at the age of 13. If you’d asked me what I wanted to be, I would have said something like a librarian.”

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