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What Disney Channel Actors Looked Like In The 2000s And What They Look Like Today

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What Bella Thorne looked like then:

Bella Thorne attends the Markus Klinko & Indrani's "ICONS" Exhibition in April 2009
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What Bella Thorne looks now:

Bella Thorne at the 2021 Latin Grammy Awards
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What Zac Efron looked then:

Zac Efron attends the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards
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What Zac Efron looks like now:

Zac Efron attends the 2021 UFC 269 event in Las Vegas, Nevada
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What Raven-Symoné looked like then:

Raven-Symoné attends the 2005 Kids Choice Awards
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What Raven-Symoné looks like now:

Raven-Symoné at the Daytime Emmy Awards for Children's and Animation
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What Demi Lovato looked like then:

Demi Locato attends the 2009 American Music Awards
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What Demi Lovato looks like now:

Demi Lovato attends the 2021 iHeartRadio Music Awards
Emma Mcintyre / Getty Images for iHeartMedia

What Dylan and Cole Sprouse looked like then:

Dylan and Cole Sprouse at the 2007 Camp Ronald McDonald15th Annual Family Halloween Carnival
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What Dylan and Cole Sprouse look like now:

Dylan and Cole Sprouse at the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party
Gregg Deguire / FilmMagic / Via Getty Images

What Raviv Ullman looked like then:

Raviv Ullman attends a 2005 "Disney channel stars meet the press" event in Los Angeles, CA
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What Raviv Ullman looks like now:

Raviv Ullman at the Beachside x Refinery29 x Facebook Strangers Season 2 Premiere in 2018
Ben Gabbe / Getty Images for Beachside Films

What Miley Cyrus looked like then:

Miley Cyrus at the 41st Annual Academy Of Country Music Awards in 2006
Photo by Frazer Harrison / Getty Images for ACMA

What Miley Cyrus looks like now:

Miley Cyrus at the10th Annual LACMA ART+FILM GALA in 2021
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What Hilary Duff looked like then:

Hilary Duff on the 2003 MTV Movie Awards red carpet
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What Hilary Duff looks like now:

Hilary Duff at the 2021 Baby2Baby10-Year Gala presented by Paul Mitchell
Amy Sussman / Getty Images for Baby2Baby

What Zendaya looked like then:

Zendaya in a 2010 promotional photo for an episode of "Shake It Up" called "Give It Up," in which her character, Rocky, enters a dance marathon to support a local senior center
Photo by Adam Larkey/Disney Channel via Getty Images

What Zendaya looks like now:

Zendaya attends the 2021 Ballon D'Or photocall at Theatre du Chatelet
Marc Piasecki / WireImage / Via Getty Images

What Selena Gomez looked like then:

Selena Gomez attends the 2007 "High School Musical 2" premiere in Downtown Disney
Jason Merritt / FilmMagic / Via Getty Images

What Selena Gomez looks like now:

Selena Gomez at Sephora Times Square with a display of her beauty brand, Rare Beauty
Photo by Mike Coppola / Getty Images for Rare Beauty

What Monique Coleman looked like then:

Monique Coleman attends the 8th Annual Teen Choice Awards
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What Monique Coleman looks like now:

Monique Coleman at the 2021 Hollywood Reporter's Women In Entertainment Gala
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What Brenda Song looked like then:

Brenda Song attends an event in Disneyland
Steve Granitz / WireImage / Via Getty Images

What Brenda Song looks like now:

Brenda Song attends the Gucci Love Parade on November 2, 2021
Rich Fury / Getty Images for Gucci

What Vanessa Hudgens looked like then:

Vanessa Hudgens attends the 2007 Teen Choice Awards
Jon Kopaloff / FilmMagic / Via Getty Images

What Vanessa Hudgens looks like now:

Vanessa Hudgens at the Film Independent Screening of "Tick, Tick... Boom!" on December 12, 2021
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What Corbin Bleu looked like then:

Corbin Bleu at The 75th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade on November 26, 2006
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What Corbin Bleu looks like now:

Corbin Bleu at the 2019 Drama Desk Awards at Steinway Hall
Walter Mcbride / WireImage / Via Getty Images

What Kyla Pratt looked like then:

Kyla Pratt attends the 3rd Annual Vibe Awards in 2005
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What Kyla Pratt looks like now:

Kyla Pratt at the Tyler Perry Studios Grand Opening Gala in 2019
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What Ryan Merriman looked like then:

Ryan Merriman at the ABC Network's TCA Summer Press Tour at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in 2002
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What Ryan Merriman looks like now:

Ryan Merriman supports the Maisha Project in a 2020 YouTube video
Maisha Project / Via youtube.com

What Lalaine looked like then:

Lalaine at the 18th Annual Imagen Awards in 2003
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What Lalaine looks like now:

Lalaine attends the after party for the premiere of "Definition Please" in September of 2021
Amanda Edwards / Getty Images

What Ashley Tisdale looked like then:

Actress Ashley Tisdale attends the 15th Annual Environmental Media Awards in 2005
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What Ashley Tisdale looks like now:

Ashley Tisdale poses at the premiere for "House of Gucci" in November 2021
Amy Sussman / Getty Images

What Camila Belle looked like then:

Camilla Belle attends the 2000 Teen Choice Awards
Photo by SGranitz / WireImage / Via Getty Images

What Camilla Belle looks like now:

Camilla Belle at  the The Last Ship Opening Night Performance in 2020
Jean Baptiste Lacroix / Getty Images

What A.J. Trauth looked like then:

A.J. Trauth attends "The Princess Diaries" premiere
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What A.J. Trauth looks like now:

A.J. Trauth appears in a 2021 video with Christy Carlson Romano for her YouTube channel
Christy Carlson Romano / Via youtube.com

What the Jonas Brothers looked like then:

The Jonas Brothers attend the European premiere of "Camp Rock" in London, England in 2008
Mike Marsland / WireImage / Via Getty Images

What the Jonas Brothers look like now:

Kevin, Joe, and Nick Jonas attend the Jonas Brothers Family Roast Netflix Comedy Special Taping in November of 2021
Phillip Faraone / Getty Images for Netflix

What Kimberly J. Brown looked like then:

Kimberly J. Brown at the "Collateral" New York film premiere during the Eighth Annual Urbanworld Film Festival on August 4, 2004
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What Kimberly J. Brown looks like now:

Kimberly J. Brown at Freeform Hosts 'Halloween Road' Talent And Press Preview Night  on September 30, 2021
Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty Images

What Christy Carlson Romano looked like then:

Christy Carlson Romano attends the 2005 Teen Choice Awards
Frazer Harrison / Getty Images

What Christy Carlson Romano looks like now:

Christy Carlson Romano in a 2021 video for her YouTube channel discussing Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, and Paris Hilton
Christy Carlson Romano / Via youtube.com

What Camille Guaty looked like then:

Camille Guaty attends the ALMA Awards in 2002
Photo by SGranitz / WireImage / Via Getty Images

What Camille Guaty looks like now:

Caille Guaty at the 'Foster A Dream' Soiree: A Little Bit Of Wine & A Little Bit of Giving in 2019
Photo by Tibrina Hobson / Getty Images

What Mitchel Musso looked like then:

Mitchel Musso at the 2007 premiere of "The Game Plan"
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What Mitchel Musso looks like now:

Mitchel Musso in a 2020 interview with CelebrityHauteSpot
CelebrityHauteSpot / Via youtube.com

What Tahj Mowry looked like then:

Tahj Mowry in Disney Channel Original Movie, "Hounded," in 2001
Disney +

What Tahj Mowry looks like now:

Tahj Mowry attends the premiere of the third season of Netflix's "Stranger Things" in 2019
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What Steven Anthony Lawrence looked like then:

Steven Anthony Lawrence attends the 4th Annual "Party on the Pier" to aid the Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA in 2003
Amanda Edwards / Getty Images

What Steven Anthony Lawrence looks like now:

Steven Anthony Lawrence attends the premiere of Porter Pictures' "I Wrote This For You" in 2019
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What Kirsten Storms looked like then:

Kirsten Storm poses attends the premiere of "The In Crowd" in July of 2000
Steve W. Grayson / Getty Images

What Kirsten Storms looks like now:

Kirsten Storms during a "General Hospital" taping in 2021
Scott Kirkland / ABC via Getty Images

What Adrienne Bailon-Houghton looked like then:

Adrienne Bailon-Houghton at the 2004 premiere of "Tiger Cruise"
Photo by Frazer Harrison / Getty Images

What Adrienne Bailon-Houghton looks like now:

Adrienne Bailon-Houghton at the alice + olivia by Stacey Bendet event in 2021
Jamie Mccarthy / Getty Images for alice + olivia

What Adrian R'Mante looked like then:

Adrian R'Mante as his character, Esteban, speaks to Zack and Cody in "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody" episode, "To Catch a Thief"
Disney +

What Adrian R'Mante looks like now:

Adrian R'Mante in an interview with "Good Day Sacramento" from August of 2021
Good Day Sacramento / Via youtube.com

What Ty Hodges looked like then:

Ty Hodges at the Third Annual Soul Train Christmas Star Festival in November of 2000
Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images

What Ty Hodges looks like now:

Ty Hodges discusses how to make Jamaican jerk chicken rasta pasta in a 2019 video for Christy Carlson Romano's YouTube channel
Christy Carlson Romano / Via youtube.com

What Aly & AJ looked like then:

Alyson Michalka and AJ Michalka attend the 2004 premiere for the Disney Channel Original Movie, "Tiger Cruise"
Frazer Harrison / Getty Images

What Aly & AJ look like now:

AJ and Alyson Michalka at the Build Studio on May 13, 2019 in New York City.
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What Debby Ryan looked like then:

Debby Ryan at the 2008 premiere of the Weinstein Company's "The Longshots"
David Livingston / Getty Images

What Debby Ryan looks like now:

Debby Ryan at the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards in New York City.
Jeff Kravitz / Getty Images for MTV/ViacomCBS

What Brandon Baker looked like then:

Brandon Baker as character Johnny Kapahala talks to his grandfather in the 2007 Disney Channel Original Movie, "Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board"
Disney +

What Brandon Baker looks like now:

Brandon Baker cooks Hawaiian fried rice with Christy Carlson Romano in a video for her YouTube channel
Christy Carlson Romano / Via youtube.com

What Anneliese van der Pol looked like then:

Anneliese Van de Pol attends the 9th Annual American Choreography Awards in 2003
Frazer Harrison / Getty Images

What Anneliese van der Pol looks like now:

Anneliese van der Pol at the premiere of Disney's "The Lion King" at the Dolby Theatre in 2019
Jesse Grant / Getty Images for Disney

What Alyson Stoner looked like then:

Alyson Stoner attends the 2008 premiere of "Camp Rock"
Dimitrios Kambouris / WireImage / Via Getty Images

What Alyson Stoner looks like now:

Alyson Stoner attends Day 2 at Alo House in June of 2021
Emma Mcintyre / Getty Images for Alo Yoga

What David Henrie looked like then:

David Henrie attends Variety's 3rd annual "Power of Youth" event on December 5, 2009
Lester Cohen / WireImage / Via Getty Images

What David Henrie looks like now:

Actor David Henrie at the Indochino Red Carpet launch party in 2019
Rich Polk / Getty Images for Indochino

What Emily Osment looked like then:

Emily Osment attends the 2009 Teen Choice Awards
Jon Kopaloff / FilmMagic / Via Getty Images

What Emily Osment looks like now:

Emily Osment attends the VIP preview night of The Los Angeles Dodgers' Holiday Festival on December 01, 2021
Rodin Eckenroth / Getty Images

What Adam Lamberg looked like then:

Adam Lamberg arrives fat Nickelodeon's 16th Annual Kids' Choice Awards in 2003
Frederick M. Brown / Getty Images

What Adam Lamberg looks like now:

Adam Lamberg attends a 2020 Zoom reunion meeting with the "Lizzie McGuire" cast
Lizzie McGuire Reboot / Via youtube.com

What Danielle Panabaker looked like then:

A 2004 red carpet photo of Danielle Panabaker
Jean-paul Aussenard / WireImage / Via Getty Images

What Danielle Panabaker looks like now:

Danielle Panabaker attends the Entertainment Weekly Comic-Con Celebration at Float  on July 20, 2019
Joe Scarnici / FilmMagic / Via Getty Images
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