Kim Kardashian has changed a lot over the years. She always looks great because she's a naturally beautiful woman. Many of us would probably argue that when we look natural, we're more attractive. Although Kim has never admitted to modifying her body or face (besides getting Botox), it would be crazy to think that something in that category isn't happening here. The thing is that she looks very different than she used to, and that's also true for many members of her family as well. Most of her other family members aren't exactly shy about the work they've gotten done (or at least they're open about some of it), so, of course, it's always possible that she is doing more than we think and just not mentioning it. To each his own as far as plastic surgery is involved, right, whatever makes her happy. But we are entitled to our own opinions as well. Here are 15 photos that prove that Kim Kardashian was hotter back then.

15 Kim As A Teenager

Let's not get too weird here since Kim is almost certainly a minor in this photo, but look how naturally beautiful she was!! You can see all the aspects about her that prove that she was just born a really good looking person. She also knew that she was going to grow up and become famous, as evidenced by a video that shows Kim stating that she was going to be famous at her middle school graduation party. Yep, back when she was only 13-years-old. In the video, Kim says that she is “the dopest on the ropest person in this class." She then goes on to say “Is anyone getting a tape of this? I hope you do, because when you see me — when I’m famous and old — you’re gonna remember me as this beautiful little girl!” She also is heard telling other people that she's the most popular, and let's be honest, she is. In recent years, she was on an ET show where they played that footage to see how she created, and she pretty much just wanted to know how the tape got out.

14 Before She Got A Possible Nose Job

Kim Kardashian has reportedly denied getting a nose job at some point in time, but whatever has happened, we have to admit that her nose looks very different.  It looks great now, but her natural nose was also beautiful. Kim has been asked about it specifically and said that "It does look smaller. Maybe it’s the contour I use." She has also said that she used to hate the bump on her nose but that now she appreciates it because it makes her look more "ethnic." Kim has also said that her nose is her biggest insecurity and that she has considered getting a nose job in the past but did not ever go through with it. "I always want to get my nose done . . . I went to the doctor, I had them take the pictures, he showed me what it would look like and it just didn't -- I wouldn't look the same." There are of course other ways that the shape of one's nose can be altered using dermal fillers, which she also uses for the rest of her face. It's referred to a non-surgical nose job and it requires basically no downtime. Not saying that's what she did, but there are a lot of options out there for making subtle changes without going under the knife.

13 Kim Lounging In Shiny Clothes

This photo of Kim proves that her modeling game wasn't always at the level that it is now, but she certainly was hot. Her body is not overly sculpted here, but her body does look better than the average, let's be real. Kim has not ever admitted to modifying her body through surgery, but she has been extremely open about her use of waist trainers to widdle her middle. Waist trainers are basically like a corset and make claims such as “waist shapers will help you lose fat and inches from your waist, metabolize fat, release toxins, compress your core, and reduce food intake throughout the day.” There's a lot of debate out there about whether they actually do anything productive. They will encourage you to sweat more which can lead to the loss of some water weight possibly (although being water weight it will also come back on later), but they also can squish your organs to the point that you can have digestive issues and some improper functioning. Probably not what you want.

12 Her Accidental Post

Actually, Kim pretended that her daughter North accidentally posted this photo. Sure, sure. Blame the innocent child. Kim literally posted this photo to her Instagram account, which led her to delete it and then repost it with this caption: "North posted this while playing games on my phone. Not sure why or how she chose it but I'm not complaining! LOL, I deleted it so now reposting it myself! #FBF from 10 years ago" For most of us, letting a toddler loose in our cell phones might result in a photo being shared to Instagram all right, but it almost certainly wouldn't be one where we looked as fabulous as ever. More likely it would be a screenshot of our ex and his new girlfriend, an under the chin selfie that we sent to our best friend to over exaggerate and complain how fat and haggard we looked, or a screenshot of a text conversation about something shady enough to get us fired from work. But Kim leads a charmed life, so in Kim's world, an accidental photo posting just highlights how hot she used to be.

11 The Original Kim Body

Kim has always had a great body, even before she started waist training and doing whatever else it is that she and her sisters have done to triple the size of their butts while whittling down the rest of their bodies at the same time. This shot is of an obviously natural body and she looks great in that red bikini! But so does Kourtney btw, let's not ignore how awesome Kim's older sister looks in this shot. We have no idea when this photo was taken, but Kourtney has had three children and she still looks this great if not way better, so she's doing something right. We would guess that there are a lot of people out there who would prefer Kim's natural body to one that's been nipped and tucked. Of course, she's hot no matter what she's doing, but despite our culture's serious obsession with perfection, people are generally a little more forgiving and can go with the flow because we're all human here.

10 A Weird Photo

We have no idea what this photo is exactly. Maybe some kind of modeling shot? Not sure. Whatever it is, it's a good one in the sense that it shows off her natural beauty, even with the outdated white eyeshadow covering her brow bone and eyelid. See she was beautiful even before she started changing her face and then contouring the shit out of it on top of that. Kim completely shot the trend of contouring to its own form of stardom, but technically she's already moved on from it and now does something called strobing. "I'm really into strobing now," Kim continued. "I think right now it's more about nontouring, like real skin with less makeup on it. I'm trying to wear less... and my husband loves me without makeup. So just highlighting the skin without using bronzer. I love contouring and I don't think I'd stop contouring my nose—I know people think I've had a nose job but it really is just makeup!" There's the nose job talk once again. Can someone teach me how to contour without having a pile of makeup on my face? I still don't get it.

9 Her Smiling Face

Here's Kim hanging out with her former BFF/boss Paris Hilton. It's proof that she used to smile comfortably on the red carpet, and that she has a really beautiful smile. Kim doesn't like to smile anymore. She's actually given a couple different reasons for why she doesn't smile, one more serious than the other. At one point, Kim said that she doesn't smile a lot because it causes wrinkles. She captioned a photo of her smiling with the caption: "See I do smile… even laugh on occasion. Not too often though because it causes wrinkles." This is a bit of an odd point though since this is life and enjoying it is preferable to maybe have a laugh line but okay. The other more serious reason was that when she was pregnant with North she had some complications that caused weight gain, and the critics really got her down.  “I don’t want to smile for them. I don’t want to be out. Even if I was more confident, I just didn’t feel like being that girl who was going to be smiling for every photo. It changed my mood; it changed who I was; it changed my personality a lot.”

8 This Cautionary Tale

This photo is a cautionary tale of what happens when you do a little too much. She has since backed off of whatever she was doing in the second pic since she looks less extreme now. But still very different than her original self. The photo on the right clearly shows the extreme amount of work that she's done, including the nose job, filler, and Botox. The problem is when it goes too far it literally changes the shape of the eyes and ages you. In that second picture, Kim looks a lot like her mother Kris, and Kris looks like Kris because she has done tons of work as well. Flawless isn't necessarily attractive. In fact, it's usually not, because no one is naturally flawless, and you don't ever want to take away the things about your face that make you you, such as your facial expressions. When faces get overly frozen it's kind of a bummer because you can't read people's thoughts and emotions anymore, which makes it hard to know how they feel about you.

7 Looking Natural With Paris

There are a lot of pictures from the years that Kim hung out with Paris Hilton, even though Kim wasn't the famous one. This photo is a good example of what her natural face looks like. So pretty and natural! Of course, it also appears that Kim is not wearing a ton of makeup in this photo, and if she is really contouring and strobing her face as much as it seems like her makeup-free face might look more like this anyway. But that's sort of the point, she's so naturally beautiful it almost seems like a waste of time (and money) to be piling on makeup when you don't need to. Presumably though in Kim's world having the option to go from great to "perfect" looking is a pretty strong draw. Like on one hand, why would you not want to look better and better and better if you did, in fact, have the time and money to do so. But if we looked flawless and fantastic rolling out of bed in the morning, we'd probably be rocking more of our natural faces around town.

6 Looking Hot In A Bad Outfit

This photo was taken at an event in 2007 which practically makes it vintage, but it gets even better. The event was for T-Mobile Sidekick, which if you don't recall was a very trendy and unique style of phone that took over for a while before vanishing off the face of the earth. Obviously, this was way before the iPhone or anything like it existed. Different times. Kim is wearing a pretty awful outfit in this photo, let's just admit that. The white boots matching with some sort of white corset thing over a black dress that seems to be a little sheer, plus a gold heavy necklace and of course a matching white bag with some strong hardware on it. Oh, can't forget those bangles. It's a dated look and it's not exactly flattering, but she still looks beautiful. It sort of seems like you could put Kim in literally anything and she would still look like the hot and sexy Kim that she is. These days she does a lot of neutral monochrome looks which don't form as much as a distraction from her face.

5 That Fateful 'Star Wars' Gig

For some reason, back in 2008 Kanye West and Kim Kardashian ended up shooting a Star Wars parody together. The sketch was for a Comedy Central pilot called Alligator Boots, which was essentially a hip hop muppets show. The pilot never ended up airing, but luckily we have photos of the now married couple doing their thing and Kim looked super hot as Princess Leia. Kim has also admitted that sparks did fly, although they were both in other relationships at the time. She has explained that "I was always attracted to him. When I first met him, we worked on a project together and there was definitely a spark, but we were in other relationships and we kept our distance, and that was that… It was this pilot that him and Jimmy Kimmel were doing that didn’t come to fruition.” Kim Kardashian had just wrapped the first season of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, and Kanye liked what he saw. As a producer of the show he had a say in casting, and he said “I want to have, like, Kim Kardashian play Princess Leia because Kim Kardashian’s a$$ is just so…just perfect.

4 Looking Good With A Bad Haircut

In this photo from somewhere around 2005, Kim is rocking some side swept bangs in a semi Carol Brady looking do, plus some bright light eye makeup, and she looks pretty anyway. These days, Kim tends to stick with a few favored hairstyles, and while she does switch things up occasionally she doesn't come close to the frequency of changes that sister Kylie makes. Sometimes Kim actually dons wigs instead of making big changes, but interestingly when she went platinum blonde she chose to actually bleach it out. At one point she debuted an asymmetrical lob haircut that she later admitted was a wig. "I've been saying for SO long that I want to cut my hair, so the day before Kylie's event for Kylie Cosmetics, I decided to achieve the look a different way: a wig! Everyone is saying I chopped my hair, but it's all an illusion!" The hair did look exceptionally shiny.

3 This Selfie

During the earlier days of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, there was an episode where Khloe went to jail for a DUI, and Kim took advantage of the car ride there to take some selfies. Because of course, she did. She's been taking selfies since day one. Naturally, Kris reprimanded her for it which was caught on tape for the show, but Kim later shared the actual photos that she was taking in the car that day. It's a throwback look to the original Kim and she looks great. It's interesting to point out that when Kris told her to stop taking photos she did not actually use the word selfie, could this have been prior to the world's obsession with the art? Obviously, Kim has perfected the selfie many times over and has even released a book of selfies. Selfish was published as just a bunch of selfies, and then she later announced that she would be added to it. Because of course, she did. If there's one thing we can consistently expect from Kim it's a lot of selfies.

2 Kim Dating Reggie Bush

Kim was already pretty famous when she dated football player Reggie Bush so this photo of the then couple isn't a complete throwback, but she still looks different. This is the Kim we know and love but just a little more normal looking, in a good way. Maybe it's the happy smile. Kim and Reggie dated for a while but seemed to be on different paths. Reggie was busy playing football, and Kim was busy playing Kim on Keeping Up with the Kardashians and growing that empire. Reggie was never super amped about the camera stuff and tried to play along for Kim's sake, even considering engagement for a while, but ultimately they were just on different pages and the relationship didn't work out. But things worked out for both of them since they have both since married, and some people actually say that Reggie Bush's current wife and mother of his children Lilit Avagyan looks like Kim. We all have our types.

1 Kim And Ray J

Of course, there are a lot of different opinions out there about Kim and Ray J's tape, since it is a private tape, after all. But some people would argue that she was particularly hot back then, on account of the whole tape thing but also because she wasn't yet calculating her look or actions in the same way that she does now. Different times.  Love it or hate the tape is what launched the careers of the entire family and all of their children coming into the world now, which is pretty bonkers when you think about it. Those kids will be thanking auntie Kim for years to come. Everything happens for a reason? Kim's mom Kris Jenner has said that as a mom she wanted to kill Kim when she found out about the private tape, but as her manager, she saw an opportunity and jumped on it. And jump on she did...and she's never slowed down since. Kris Jenner manages herself and all of her children's careers these days, and they've got a lot going on.

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