Some child actors are so cute that they win the hearts of thousands of fans. But some of them are unrecognizable from the cute kids they were as little as 15 years earlier. It appears some of them just haven’t looked after themselves, while for others, the dramatic transformation seems to be entirely genetic. Here we look at seven of the most staggering transformations down the years.

#7 – Clint Howard

The younger brother of director/actor Ron Howard, Clint landed his own CBS-TV series at the age of eight, playing the lead role of Mark Wedloe in Gentle Ben. How did it all go so wrong for this cute, bear-loving kid?