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Album Cover Models Then and Now – U2, ‘Boy’ and ‘War’

Then: Peter Rowen actually modeled for two U2 covers: 'War' and 'Boy.'

He was the younger brother of Bono's friend Guggi and Rowen says that Bono often came over to his house to hang out with hi

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Album Cover Models Then and Now – Vampire Weekend, ‘Contra’ [NOW]

Now: Kennis is 53 years old and lives in Fairfield, Connecticut with her husband Jeffrey and her daughter Alex. After discovering her picture when her daughter brought the album home, Kennis sued Vampire Weekend and the photographer

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Album Cover Models Then and Now – Vampire Weekend, ‘Contra’

Then: Vampire Weekend found this old Polaroid from 1983 in the possession of photographer Tom Brody.

The girl pictured is Ann Kirsten Kennis who was modeling professionally at the time and later a

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Album Cover Models Then and Now – Nirvana, ‘Nevermind’ [NOW]

Now: The baby is now a man. (Yes, you're old.) Spencer Elden, 21, is now an artist. He studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA and now works for Shepard Fairey's company Obey Giant. Elden is a fan of Nirvana and says that he is still referred to as "the Nirvana baby."

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Album Cover Models Then and Now – Nirvana, ‘Nevermind’

Then: Spencer Elden was only 3 months old during this photo shoot.

His father was friends with the photographer who threw Elden in a pool to capture this shot.

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Album Cover Models Then and Now – Goo Goo Dolls, ‘A Boy Named Goo’ [NOW]

Now: Gellert is working on his doctorate in art history with a focus on archeological research. He is not a fan of the album but thinks the cover art does "make me feel like I have some small niche of fame" though he is often mistaken for the "Nirvana kid."

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Album Cover Models Then and Now – Goo Goo Dolls, ‘A Boy Named Goo’

Then: Carl Gellert was 2 years old when his father, a professional photographer, snapped his photo. But Gellert was 12 years old when his photo was released on the cover of the Goo Goo Dolls' 'A Boy Named Goo.'

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Album Cover Models Then and Now – Notorious B.I.G., ‘Ready to Die’

Then: While many thought the baby on the cover of 'Ready to Die' was rapper Biggie Smalls himself, the tot was actually a model.

The child on the cover got the job from a baby modeling agency and only made $150 for the two-hour modeling shoot that cemented his place in hip hop history.

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Album Cover Stars Then and Now – Notorious B.I.G, ‘Ready to Die’ [NOW]

Now: Only a year ago did the world discover the identity of the Biggie look-alike baby featured on the “Ready To Die’ cover. Fans suspected the image to be a young Biggie, or even one of his kids, but no one suspected the now 19-year-old, Keithroy Yearwood, Bronx native and recen

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Album Cover Models Then and Now – Blink 182, ‘Enema of the State’

Then: Janine Lindemulder was working in porn when she shot the cover of Blink 182's 'Enema of the State.' She broke into the industry in Penthouse, and won the magazine's December Pet of the Month Honor in 1987.

She also sta

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