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While today ladies like Kim Kardashian, Kate Upton and Mila Kunis make up our current list of dream girls, 20 years ago, it was an entirely different story. In fact, Upton wasn't even a full year old at that point! Instead, the celebrities who dominated the posters on our wall typically had big hair, puffy scrunchies and mom jeans. And in retrospect, we're not ashamed of our admiration for them at all. They were still definitively hot, despite the arguably horrendous style of the times.
Can't remember who we're talking about? Let us refresh your memory. From Wayne's World's Tia Carrere to supermodel of the times Cindy Crawford, check out the girls we were crushing on in 1992.
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Vanessa Williams
Album: The Comfort Zone
Vanessa Williams, a former Miss America and Penthouse pet, had an enormous hit on her hands in 1992 with "Saved the Best for Last," the second single off of her 1991 album The Comfort Zone. The song enjoyed five straight weeks at no.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Tia Carrere
Movie: Wayne's World
As Wayne Campbell's sexy, hard-rocking girlfriend in Wayne's World, the most successful Saturday Night Live sketch turned film adaptation to date, the exotic Tia Carrere became the girl who every '90s guy said "Schwing!" over.
Kristy Swanson
Movie: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Before Sarah Michelle Gellar filled the character's shoes in the television series, Kristy Swanson played Buffy, a valley girl turned vampire hunter, in this would-be cult classic.
Julie Gentry
TV show: The Real World
On the inaugural season of MTV's The Real World, Julie Gentry was one of seven strangers picked to live in a New York loft to have her life taped for the world to see. Julie was an adorably naive Southern girl who struck up a relationship with the franchise's first real star, Eric Nies.
Rosie Perez
Movie: White Men Can't Jump
Rosie Perez became a household name by playing the adorable, Jeopardy obsessed girlfriend of basketball hustler Woody Harrelson in 1992's awesome White Men Can't Jump.
Monica Bellucci
Movie: Dracula
Sexy Italian fashion model Monica Bellucci appeared in her first American film in 1992. Monica starred as Dracula's bride in Francis Ford Coppola's retelling of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Michelle Pfeiffer
Movie: Batman Returns
In Batman Returns, Michelle Pfeiffer played the iconic role of Catwoman, a leather-clad burglar who, after surviving a horrific fall, dedicates herself to getting revenge on the one who pushed her, i.e. her boss, Christopher Walken's Max Shreck.
Madonna
Album and movie: Erotica and A League of Their Own
1992 was a benchmark year for the Queen of Pop. Not only did Madge release Erotica, her fifth studio album, but she also founded Maverick Records, won a Grammy for Best Long Form Music Video, and starred as Mae Mordabito in Penny Marshall's hit film, A League of Their Own.
Tori Amos
Album: Little Earthquakes
Fiery haired beauty Tori Amos is a legend among fans of indie music, and that all began back in 1992. That was the year Tori released her debut studio album, Little Earthquakes, which contained the singles "Winter," "Crucify" and "Silent All These Years," all of which hit heavy rotation on MTV's 120 Minutes.
Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes
Album: Oooooohhh...On the TLC Tip
Left Eye, who in the early '90s used to rock a condom under one of her lenses, was TLC's brash little loudmouth. Her manic, infectious energy made her adorable, and all too easy to be drawn toward.
Sarah Jessica Parker
Movie: Honeymoon in Vegas
Years before she started sipping cosmos as Carrie Bradshaw on HBO's Sex and the City, Sarah Jessica Parker played the object of James Caan's affection and Nicolas Cage's wife in 1992's underrated rom-com Honeymoon in Vegas.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
TV show: Seinfeld
In 1992, Julia Louis-Dreyfus made up one fourth of the most popular comedic cast on television. Julia, of course, played the cigar smoking, awful dancing, big salad-loving Elaine Benes on NBC's Seinfeld for nine hilarious seasons.
Elle Macpherson
Publication: Elle calendar
In 1992, Elle Macpherson, a six-foot-tall Australian knockout, released Elle, one of the most sought after calendars of the year, which she continued to produce through 1994. That might not seem like a big deal now, but prior to the Internet being as readily available as it is now, supermodel calendars were a hot commodity. Eventually, the demand for Elle encouraged Macpherson to film her successful workout videos series, Your Personal Best: The Body.
Heather Locklear
TV show: Melrose Place
Back in the '90s, Heather Locklear, who miraculously looks like she hasn't aged a day in the past 20 years, starred in one of television's hottest dramas. Heather played Amanda Woodward, one of Los Angeles' snarkiest bosses living in the scandal-ridden apartment complex, on Fox's primetime soap, Melrose Place.
Drew Barrymore
Movie: Poison Ivy
She's mellowed out in recent years, but back in the '90s, Drew Barrymore was a controversial bad girl on screen and off. This was never more evident than in 1992's Poison Ivy, a sexed-up thriller in which a promiscuous Drew has a penchant for older men.
Dawn Robinson
Album: Funky Divas
Though each member of En Vogue was undeniably sexy in their own right, Dawn Robinson, the Beyonce to En Vogue's Destiny's Child, always seemed to stand out more than the rest. In 1992, the female super group released their second studio album, Funky Divas. Fueled by the hit singles "Free Your Mind," "Giving Him Something He Can Feel," and "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)," the album went on to sell over five million copies worldwide.
Bridget Fonda
Movie: Singles
Decades before they took over Brooklyn, Seattle, Washington was the hipster capital of the world; they just didn't refers to themselves as such. Instead, they were grunge rockers. And in 1992, writer-director Cameron Crowe released Singles, a romantic comedy about the aforementioned type of Seattle twentysomethings. In the film, the gorgeous Bridget Fonda played Janet, a coffee shop waitress whom Crowe had legions of indie rockers and fans of the film alike fawning over.
Marisa Tomei
Movie: My Cousin Vinny
In My Cousin Vinny, many could argue that Marisa Tomei stole the show. As Mona Lisa Vito opposite Joe Pesci's Vinny Gambini, Marisa played a beautiful Italian girl who knows a thing or two about how a carburetor works. The role earned the charming actress her first Academy Award.
Cindy Crawford
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Cindy Crawford was in many ways the quintessential supermodel of the 1990s. Cindy and her patented mole graced the covers of countless magazines throughout the course of the decade. In 1992, the flawless model showed the world how she stayed so perfect by releasing her first workout video, the wildly successful Cindy Crawford: Shape Your Body Workout.
Sharon Stone
Movie: Basic Instinct
With one slow and seductive cross of the legs in 1992's erotic thriller Basic Instinct, a scene which has since went on to reach iconic status, Sharon Stone became a bona fide sex symbol.
Halle Berry
Movie: Boomerang
In only her second year in the business, Halle Berry starred opposite funnymen Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence in 1992's Boomerang. Though she was a relative unknown prior to the film's release, the role helped springboard Halle to stardom.
Alyssa Milano
TV show and album: Who's The Boss? and Do You See Me?
Though she was just a kid when Who's The Boss? premiered back in 1984, Alyssa Milano, the television daughter of Tony Danza, was a smoking hot 20-year-old by the time the series wrapped up in 1992. And in case you forgot (or didn't even know) she sang, Milano also released her fourth studio album, which only ever charted in Japan, that year.
Tiffani Thiessen
TV show: Saved by the Bell
Tiffani Thiessen was so hot playing Saved by the Bell's Kelly Kapowski that, thanks to the magic of syndication, men all over the world are still crushing over this gorgeous California girl. In 1992, NBC had the good sense to make Saved by the Bell: Hawaiian Style, a TV movie in which Thiessen donned a bikini for 90% of the film.
Selena
Album: Entre a Mi Mundo
Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, known better simply as Selena, was a Tejano sensation whose already thriving career got a big boost in 1992 with the release of her third studio album, Entre a Mi Mundo, which contained the hit single "Como La Flor."
Pamela Anderson
TV show: Baywatch
After two years of playing the Tool Time girl on ABC's Home Improvement, Playboy playmate Pamela Anderson, one of the sexiest women on the planet, turned in her tool belt for a skimpy red bikini. Starring opposite The Hoff on Baywatch, Pam Anderson made men all over the world drool as they watched her run in slow motion down a sunny L.A. beach.