The NBA star, the Madden brothers, and the Playmate recall the trials of their teenage years.By James Montgomery
Dwyane Wade
Photo: MTV News
On the newest episode of MTV's "When I Was 17," we learned that — just like pretty much everybody — the most famous athletes, musicians and models were basically complete nerds in their high school days.
Miami Heat megastar Dwyane Wade copped to , and to being a self-described "shy" kid when he wasn't on the basketball court. Of course, thanks to a senior-year growth spurt, he was transformed, in more ways than one.
"It was around the time when i started getting good at basketball, so my confidence was growing a bit at 17," he said. "[On the court] they saw me angry, fierce and very competitive ... I was viewed as two different people when I was 17."
Good Charlotte's Joel and Benji Madden dealt with their own insecurities — most of which stemmed from their inability to grow facial hair and an overbearing mom who shot down any attempts at scoring with girls — so, not surprisingly, they hated their time in school, and even considered dropping out. And for once, it was a good thing that their mom was around to help them change their minds.
"I didn't like school, I didn't understand it, I never was good at schoolwork ... so we were going to drop out," Joel Madden said. "I didn't have enough credits and I was tired of teachers, and my mom was like, 'If you guys stay in school and graduate I have these two plane tickets to California.' She said she'd give them to us. So we went to night school — like a night school program for pregnant chicks, and we got the extra credits we needed and we graduated, so she gave us these plane tickets. It was a big deal, we'd never been anywhere, never been on a plane. It was huge for us."
And when she was 17, Holly Madison was far from the blonde bombshell we know her as today. She dumped her cheating boyfriend on prom night and wanted more than anything to get out of her sleepy Oregon hometown. Especially since she had the kind of dreams that the locals tended to frown upon.
"I wanted to be a famous Playmate just like Jenny McCarthy. When I saw her on MTV's 'Singled Out,' I thought she was the prettiest girl ever ... I wanted to be just like her," she laughed. "However, when you're from a small town like I was, people were really conservative, so when I told people what I wanted to do it was always 'I want to go to California and be an actress.' It was never 'I want to be a Playmate'
... it was kind of inappropriate for the cheer captain."
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