In a recent TikTok post, @wynika_williams shared the compromise she made with her daughter who asked for a room for the night of her Senior Prom. “We all got a hotel for her prom,” she said.

The author and Adam on prom night (2008). Courtesy of Sammi LaBue. Three years earlier, when I was 15, ... New York, in 2023 — 15 years after prom night. Courtesy of Sammi LaBue.

Enjoy these incredible celebrity throwbacks — from Michelle Obama and Ellen DeGeneres to Brad Pitt and Will Ferrell — which were taken during those gloriously gawky teenage years.