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Now: Samantha Gates, now 46, lives with her husband and daughter Tallulah in Cape Town but the real star of the family turned out to be her younger brother. Stefan is now a cooking show celebrity, most famous for hosting BBC2's 'Cooking In The Danger Zone...

Now: There was some confusion when frontman Billy Corgan tweeted that their current bass player was one of the girls on the cover. This had to either have been a publicity stunt or a hoax, because according to bassist Nicole Fiorentino's age, she would have to be 14 years old when the photo was taken, much older than the girls look...

Then: The cover of Smashing Pumpkins' best-selling 'Siamese Dream' album features two girls pressed together on the cover, so close they could be conjoined. The photo was taken specifically for the cover (it was not candid) but for a long time, the identity of the girls was a mystery...

Now: Peter Rowen, now 38, is a professional photographer based in Dublin. Though the cover did get him female attention when he was a young boy (he claims he'd "get phone calls from girls in America...how they got my family's number, I don't know...

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 his brother when they were young. Rowen was especially willing to do the shoot because he was paid in chocolate Mars bars...

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 for $2 million for using her image without her permission...

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 appeared in multiple advertisements including L’Oréal Avantage hair-color lotion...

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...

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.

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...

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.' Gellert's dad had been paid $6,000 for the use of the image and though the seventh-grader was embarrassed by his resulting nickname "Goo" and very public naked picture, he soon l

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...

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 recent high school grad...

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 starred in Blink 182's music video for 'What's My Age Again...

Now: Janine Lindemulder married Jesse James (who later married and then cheated on and then divorced from Sandra Bullock) in 2002. After the two split, Lindemulder was arrested for assaulting James. She was then arrested in 2009 and served four months for tax evasion...