Who was your Hardest Celebrity Crush?
Who was your Hardest Celebrity Crush? The one that actually effected your life to the point where you changed something about yourself? Mine was Christina Ricci.
In 1993 I was 12 years old and my crush began when I saw her in “Adams Family Values,” that scene where Wednesday smiles to try and convince the Camp Counselors that she had been Brainwashed.
She flashes that forced, deranged smile to fool the camp counselors.
I could not help but fall in love with her in that scene but I did not tell anyone, I would watch Adams Family Values over and over again just for that part, just to see Christina Ricci.
My older brother had done some report on her for his High-school English Class where he had to write an essay about a celebrity. I had always looked up to my brother but he always hated it when I latched onto something that he liked or took interest in and because of that I felt I had to wait for permission to like Christina Ricci.
In 1995 I was 14 years and I saw her in “Casper” and my crush got worse. I watched “Casper” over and over again, to me she was the most beautiful girl I had ever seen, her voice the most beautiful sound I had ever heard. I was a boy head over heals in love with someone I had never met and my weird adolescent imagination got carried away with my infatuation.
My crush on Christina was not creepy, like I did not put her picture on the walls of my room or anything or build a shrine to her or something crazy like that. When I say that I watched her movies over and over again, I did not watch them on a loop, it was the 90’s and my copies of her movies were on V.H.S. I watched them every chance I could get but I did not obsess.
I played Freshmen Football that year and at every practice I made it my mission to help my teammates up off the ground with a generous hand reached out to them every single time I was close to a downed Teammate, at practice and during games, because I imagined that, Christina Ricci was watching. Looming in the cosmic void, silently judging my moral fiber.
I thought, If she could see me being a good guy, she would love me and that some how some way she would find me because destiny would intervene.
Now that I am older I look back at that time and realize how crazy my crush was and I think that its funny, because it was kind of…stupid. I had in-listed Christina Ricci to be my imaginary Girlfriend to inspire me to be a better person because I thought that the “Real” Christina Ricci would fall in love with me through some cosmic collective connection.
I have followed her carrier over the years but not out of obsession but more out of nostalgia, she is still one of my favorite actress’s, when ever I watch one of harmonies or read about her, or see an image of her on the internet it still makes me feel a shred of how hard my crush on her was when I was 14.
I have realized that the idea of a possible cosmic collective connection with her was just the product of an adolescent crush and that she would never now how hard my crush was on her or what it did to me.
Fortunately that is what the internet is for, if somehow someway Christina Ricci ever reads this I hope it makes her laugh, or smile.
That is my hardest Celebrity Crush.
What is your’s?
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