Granted, Hendricks looks absolutely gorgeous both as a goth and as a 60s siren, but the high school reinvention wasn’t purely a fashionable whim. In past interviews, the actress detailed how her dark fashion sense was a coping mechanism to deal with high school bullies.

“We had a locker bay, and every time I went down there to get books out of my locker people would sit on top and spit at me,” she told The Guardian in 2014. “So I had to have my locker moved because I couldn’t go in there… I felt scared in high school. It was like Lord of the Flies. There was always some kid getting pummelled and people cheering.”

Despite the torment, Hendricks found solace in the drama department, where she began to channel her rage through acting. At the same time, she reinvented herself as a goth, turning to fashion as a means to both cultivate a unique look, as well as armour herself from the taunts.

“My parents would say, ‘You’re just alienating everyone. You’ll never make any friends looking like that,’” she continued. “And I would say, ‘I don’t want those people to be my friends. I’m never going to be friends with the people who beat up a kid while everyone is cheering them on. I hate them.’”

Three decades later, and Hendricks has six Primetime Emmy Award nominations, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Critics’ Choice Awards to her name. And whilst her goth days are a thing of the past, her throwback photos show her metamorphosis to a Hollywood icon was rooted in overcoming adversity. So dig out those old teenage photos, and look back kindly on all the various looks of your youth - good, bad and downright unacceptable. As Hendricks proved, they’re a marker of individualism, and we should honour the memories.

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Christina Hendricks’ throwback high school photos show the beauty of being different