14 Photographs That Shatter Your Image of Famous People

7 Teenage Eminem With Alf Shirt and Birthday Cake
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I’ve linked to this picture, oh, seven or eight times in my career at Cracked, as it is my favorite celebrity photo of all time. I don’t want to say that Eminem’s claims of an impoverished life as an abused child aren’t true — I think everyone agrees that they are. To an extent. Still, sometimes he had a birthday and a cake and wore a pink T-shirt depicting Alf wearing X-ray glasses saying, “Hey, nice underwear!”

Still, brooding celebrities who build their career on their dark past do it at the risk of becoming caricatures. For instance, the same can be said of Kurt Cobain — nobody is going to deny his depression or addiction. However …