Who's your celebrity crush?
08.06.2025 00:48
And yeah, in more recent years, I still have this, when watching TV or music videos, that I then find someone super pretty and just enjoy watching them. Their faces, their facial expressions.
So, this one developed into a really big post, way too much. But I felt like writing this down. If not for anyone else, it’s interesting for me to reflect on this.
Edina Gangl (water polo):
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The first one, as a teenager, was Sophie Marceau. Perhaps my biggest celebrity crush. Seing the two “La Boum” films when I was 13. She was 13 in the first film as well.
But I have also always found her really really pretty. And, yes, sexy. During my college year in the US, I had a huge promo poster of her on my door (“Stories from the City…”).
Abi Tucker
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My very first concert as a teenager was also Veruca Salt then, in Hamburg. Them opening up for Dinosaur Jr. Me and my friend were so impressed that we actually missed Dinosaur Jr. …
Ashleigh Johnson, water polo:
If I ever have a daughter, she will have to watch this at some point:
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I mean, first of all, I love the band. I saw them opening up for Ryan Adams in Philadelphia in 2002. And I was impressed with their music, immediately bought their album If It Was You at the concert.
Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes
Sharleen Spiteri. Wow.
Almuth Schult, German football goalkeeper and TV expert:
(Alli Neumann, German actress and singer)
I do find this topic interesting, browsing through others’ posts. It really shows one thing: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. There is no general standard, really. It’s individual. And that’s quite nice, isn’t it?
Um, yeah …
But Sara… Gorgeous. And I so love the sound of her voice.
Gotta love her as a person as well.
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With my definition of celebrity crushes, I actually keep having small celebrity crushes even at 46. It’s more that I admire someone when I see them. I wouldn’t do what I did as a teenager, then watch entire films just to admire someone. I’m a bit too old for that.
(Cortnee Vine, Asutralian football player)
Brody Dalle:
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Ekaterina Gamova (volleyball):
God, she is simply just gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous.
With whatever haircut, even though I only give examples of a few here.
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Aylin Tezel, German actress.
(The reason why I watched Heartbreak High)
“I’ll feed your obsession”
Seems to me I do not stop having small secret celebrity crushes.
And I must have watched that “212” video by Azealia Banks 10–15 times, for sure.
(more recent)
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And, about a year ago, I saw an old Woody Allen film and saw Shelley Duvall for the first time. And I was amazed. How crazy beautiful that woman was. Her big eyes, the eyelid space (interesting thing to notice as attractive), her paleness (yes, one can like paleness!). Her vulnerable expression and in the next moment that glow, that spark.
Kim Deal
This album cover by her former band also fascinated me:
I’ve read some not so nice things about her though. I’d rather not know more and keep her songs I like in mind. And this video ;-)
And after that, here some more women I found and find super attractive.
Back then I have to admit I watched a few of her games only to see her. I liked watching tennis and played myself. But with Mary Joe Fernandez, I more wanted to see her.
At the same time also: Anat Atzmon. The first Lemon Popsicle film.
Shirley Manson
Carrie Brownstein. Same here, I admire her to this day for who she is and what she does. And will always do. And also: My God is she pretty. I’ll always have a celebrity crush on her.
Right, and a few years ago, I watched the Martha & The Muffins’ video “Echo Beach” and was really fascinated by the blonde keyboard player, Martha Ladly.
I had seen this video on MTV Alternative Nation. Not only did I love the song and went to buy the album the next day, I also immediately was focused on Louise Post. I loved Nina as well, but it was Louise.
And the short hair. And the style. And coolness.
To this day, I would count it among my top 20 favourite albums. I saw them again in Sweden then.
Shaved head, boots. Fierce.
I actually put images of her on many flyers I created when together with a friend I hosted a monthly punk rock club night as a DJ. One week before, we would plaster the city with homemade flyers.
Cat Deeley
Well, also because I liked the song. But yes, Azealia. Her eyes, her lips, her facial expressions.
Klara Deutschmann, German actress.
Then: Louise Post (to the right):
And, yes, the Aerosmith videos… Alicia Silverstone.
I remember having a discussion, one night out when I was 20. Me, my two best friends and the girl I was in love with (but never told her), who had started studying dentistry. She said “teeth gaps are awful, I cannot look at that!”. Me and both of my friends: “Vanessa Paradis!! Sorry, she’s only complete with tooth gap, and very pretty.”
And: I have always hated watching football and having female friends comment on which players they find attractive. But … I have to admit that when watching sports, me too, I secretly do pay attention to whom I find pretty … Perhaps that is normal. Anyway, it’s just a little “crush” during the game.
Seems like I, when watching sports, always find an athlete I find very pretty, where I am waiting for the camera to show her. It’s stupid but it’s true.
“Cool as Kim Deal” is a song by The Dandy Warhols. Yes, yes, yes!
I had the following on VHS back then. She was just raw and fierce. Pantyhose, boots, no bra.
Lovefoxxx
Her eyes. Her facial expressions. Her style. "The girl who looks boyish is the intelligent boy's choice," she once said, explaining her short hair.
Altogether: Her style and her attitude. Wow.
(Paula Beer, German actress)
Just to know that if she wanted to do something like that, she should.
(Klara Bühl, German football player, also seems to be a really cool and adorable person)
A force of nature.
Right, I also had a Jewel Kilcher poster (which I thought was OK to have because I liked the music as well). First album period. Before her style changed more to glamourous. It was this song and the video to it that got me.
(Leonie Benesch, German actress)
Vanessa Paradis
Nicolette Krebitz (German actress)
Milena Tscharntke, German actress:
Polly is just great. You can only admire her as a person and as an artist. She always stays relevant.
And they are both just lovely and funny (and very pretty). Gotta love both of them.
(Meike Droste, German actress)
Sinéad O’ Connor
Wow.
First of all, for me, per definition, “celebrity crush” means a person I find to be very attractive and I can’t stop watching because I find them very beautiful. I don’t mean an obsession. I never had that. Even as a teenager, I could only have that in real life. A real crush. Permanently thinking about someone. Celebrities were never “real” for me in that sense. And hey, as you will see, there are a lot that have fascinated me, more or less (whereas in real life, it hasn’t been very many). But always just when I was seeing them (or, with singers, also listening to them). So, that’s my definition of celebrity crush.
Here it was just the music videos. “Not If You Were The Last Junkie on Earth”: You do not even see her that much, on keyboards and tambourine. But every time the video came on, I had to watch, I was waiting for those moments. Wow. It wasn’t more than that though, really.
Jasmin Tabatabai (German actress)
She was really a teenage crush. I had the films on VHS. And I saw as many other films with her as I could. All secretly, I did not want my sisters or anyone else to notice ;-) Would have been uncool, I thought. So no posters or stuff. Interestingly, my first real life big big crush (for 4 years, without trying anything) looked very similar.
Bélén Vosseberg (water polo):
(above she has a striking resemblence to German actress Nora Tschirner, another little crush when she was an MTV host)
Some examples:
Incredibly pretty.
Andrea Petkovic, a former German tennis player. Funny, charming, smart, nice, very beautiful.
“Ey, man!!!” (in that voice)
Right, Nora Tschirner, actress and former MTV host:
I have found myself not only liking her analysis and her charming ways but also finding her really attractive.
Liv Lisa Fries, German actress
Britta Hammelstein, German actress:
And nowadays I still have this thing when watching sports. Athletes I like to see. I can easily name a few I find very pretty, whom I like to see:
Carolyn Lilipaly
PJ Harvey. Just like many of the others here, I admire her as a person and artist.
Jennifer Love Hewitt.
Right, some MTV UK VJanes during the 90s.
“Bow down to me”
Another video where when it came on, I just needed to sit and watch her and admire her.
And Fiona Apple. Such a good artist. And: Her eyes…!
I had to google pictures.
Those were all as a teenager.
Karen O
I watched a few films with her just because I wanted to see her. Here a more recent picture, from when she was 51:
Wanda Perdelwitz, German actress:
First row and Nina Gordon (my friend’s favourite) and Louise Post took off their shirts and played the encore in their bras. Oh boy!
Well, actresses as well, of course:
Her eyes. Her style. Her voice.
And watch The Petko Dance:
Miriam Stein, Swiss-Austrian actress
Still so pretty:
(MTV days)
Sophie Verbeeck, Belgian actress and singer:
Then also young Lisa Bonet. I liked The Cosby Show, but I could also not get enough of seeing her.
But well, that’s it from me. Yes, I am quite fascinated with female beauty. Mostly, it’s the eyes, definitely. The eyes and the face. But it’s even more fascinating when personality fascinates you as well. That’s the real deal. In real life. And on TV or in videos, you can just admire looks and personality. Without anyone knowing, for my part ;-) I would only share this here, where I am anonymous.
Zia McCabe
I had that for the first time as a teenager with Mary Joe Fernandez
Also, Melanie Blatt and Shaznay Lewis of All Saints, in the end of the 90s. That “Black Coffee” video.
“Lick my legs and I’m on fire…” And that interview afterwards.
P.S. An interesting thing. In real life, superficially, it’s faces for me. Eyes. And faces. Although I don’t believe that eyes is a superficial thing, actually.
And Justine Frischmann:
Then the second film, where she was 15:
And yes, she does awesome air kicks and the windmill (the Pete Townshend stage move).
And check more YouTube videos. This one, from 2:27: I could watch again and again and again (I don’t, but I would enjoy it).
Susanne Bormann (German actress)
I really do love Tegan as well. But yeah, Sara… I wouldn’t tell anyone about it and I wouldn’t watch Tegan & Sara videos just to see her, but my Sara fascination will surely last my whole life ;-)
Gorgeous. And I love her voice. And she seems to be such an amazing person. She lives in an ecohouse she built herself in some small beach town in Brazil (I saw an interview on YouTube).
Itsaso Arana, Spanish actress
Andreya Casablanca, German musician (Gurr):
Gorgeous. Gorgeous. Gorgeous. So my type, looks-wise. So reminding me of a big love in my life, who looks-wise would be in between Shelley Duvall and Fiona Apple, and whom, of course, I admire in a different way because I actually know her ;-)
But there’s another aspect, I can also find someone physically attractive. In that respect, among other, I have a thing for plus-size women. And when thinking about it: How many famous actresses would classify as plus size? I cannot think of any right now. I am sure I would have had a crush on a plus-size actress. But there do not seem to be any. At least not a lot, for sure. Which is a bit unfair, I have to say. A bit discriminating. TV and films should show more plus size women.
This video:
Also: Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes
Kim Kulig, a former German football player.
Just watch a few seconds here:
Shirley, to me, while also a really likeable and cool person, it seems (from interviews), was one thing above all: SEXY.
Starting with: Sara Quin.
(from 30:40 on)