Celebrity Tomboys Who Turned Out Just Fine

Kristen Stewart

The Twilight actress has been caught multiple times wearing sneakers under her gown at Hollywood premieres.

"I have always been a tomboy," Stewart told Elle UK. "I wanted to look like my older brother when I was younger. I lived in hand-me-downs and was always borrowing his clothes. My earliest fashion memory is cutting up an old pair of Levi's and going to careers day at nursery dressed as a rock star."

Stewart proved that tomboys can be sexy, too, when the actress Glamour called, "the crown princess of grungy, tomboy chic" was also voted the magazine's "Best Dressed" in 2012.

Keira knightley

The sexy British starlet never even put on a skirt until she was 14, several years after she made her television debut at the tender age of 8. And while the actress is now more accustomed to red-carpet gowns, she still prefers a comfortable men's shirt.

"I'd go with boyish chic," Knightley, 30, told the Belfast Telegraph when asked about her personal style in 2011. "Growing up I was a tomboy. I didn't wear skirts until I was 14. I hated them. I love a man's shirt."

Still, Knightley recognizes the charm in her tomboyish ways.

"I also think that maybe being a tomboy makes me quite interested in heightened femininity," she told The Guardian in 2014. "There's definitely a contradiction there."

Mila kunis

She may have been Esquire‘s "Sexiest Woman Alive" in 2012, but Mila Kunis was a self-proclaimed tomboy as a young girl growing up in the Ukraine.

"I have an older brother, he's 6 years older than me, so when I was like 3, 4, 5 little my parents would always be like, ‘Go play with Mike,' and they were like, ‘Go take your little sister,'" Kunis once told Static. "I grew up in a small town in Ukraine, where kids went and played in the neighborhood all day long. You got kicked out of the house, and you ran around for eight, nine hours, and you came back completely scraped up and bloody and starving."

Janet Jackson

Catherine Jackson thought Janet was too much of a tomboy and actually tried to enroll her youngest daughter in etiquette classes.

"She refused to go to etiquette and charm school, she didn't want that," the pop star's older sister LaToya recalled during an interview on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight. "We took her to this school and my mother was driving, Jan was in the back of the Mercedes, and the minute my mother got out the car to open the door Jan locks the door, locks my mother out, props her foot against the door and holds it like, ‘You are not going to get me out of this car!'"

And Jackson has only partially outgrown her tomboy phase. In a 2006 interview with Hollywood Life, she described herself as "a chameleon. Part of me is sexy, part of me is very religious, part of me is a family girl, part of me is wild. I'm a tomboy in most things, but I'm girly sometimes, too. I like wearing men's suits and I like wearing high heels that defy gravity!"

Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett has beaten all the odds even voted as the hottest woman alive in 2013, but that was not a title that came easily. She epitomized a boy-like character when she was in her Holly-wood debut 1991 along screen legend Robert Redford. Those that wanted to identify her from her childhood photos would not compare it with the present. She was a tough tomboy that has grown up to be a beautiful star.

Fergie

The pop star's raw edginess helped her land her gig with the Black Eyed Peas, but it was only through that experience that Fergie learned to embrace her feminine side.

"When I first joined the Peas, I didn't ever want to wear a skirt. I was in a kind of hard-edge point in my life, rough around the edges, collecting unemployment and living at my mom's," she told MTV in 2009. "I wasn't in a girly mood at all. But finally, when Hey Mama came around, the guys persuaded me to wear a skirt."

But Fergie wasn't ready to ditch her tomboy persona just yet.

"I'm not that categorizable, if that's a word," she told Rolling Stone in 2006. "But it is in my dictionary. OK? Sometimes I can be tomboyish, and sometimes I can be girly. It depends on what mood I'm in. I like the balance. That whole woman/little girl thing, I like to play both of those."

Christine Lakin

Lakin crept into America's hearts at just 12 years old when she won the role of Alicia "Al" Lambert, Patrick Dempsey‘s tomboy daughter on ABC's long-running sitcom, Step by Step. For the next seven seasons, however, viewers watched her blossom into quite the sexy little minx. Lakin has continued acting since the series ended in 1998, while earning a communications degree from UCLA and appearing in a steamy 2008 photo spread in For Him Magazine. The same year, Lakin starred in The Hottie and the Nottie, playing the nottie alongside Paris Hilton‘s hottie. Lakin, however, was much too hot for the part and extensive makeup had to be applied each day to hide her undeniable beauty.

Alyssa Milano

The smoking hot actress first stepped into America's living rooms in 1984 as 11-year-old tomboy Samantha Micelli on ABC's long-running hit, Who's the Boss, appearing alongside veteran television actors Tony Danza and Judith Light. But Milano has never actually represented herself as a tomboy.

"I was never a tomboy like Sam is or rather, like Sam was," Milano told the Chicago Sun-Times back in 1986. "Now that Samantha is a teenager, the writers are making her more feminine and less into sports and all."

And the writers certainly did. Over the course of eight seasons viewers watched Milano absolutely blossom from a pony-tail-wearing, baseball-loving tomboy into a sexy siren who would go on to star in other hit series, including Charmed, Melrose Place, and Mistresses, as an adult. And banishing any doubts about her sex appeal, Milano even smoked up the pages of Maxim on more than one occasion, including an almost topless cover in 2013 when the actress was 40 years old.

Anna Chlumsky

Chlumsky is known by contemporary audiences due to her role that she played -HBO'S Veep where she stars along with Seinfeld Alum. But those that were her fans -the 1990s will tell you a different story because they know her through the breakout role that she played of an 11-year old tomboy. He earned her degree, later he entered into the working world before emerging from her cocoon ready to re-enter Hollywood.

Miley Cyrus

In reality, Cyrus always felt a far cry from the glamorous Hannah Montana, the actress and recording artist's breakout role and title character of the hit Disney Channel series. In reality, Cyrus was always a tomboy and could more closely relate to Hannah Montana's best friend Lilly Truscott, played by Emily Osment.

Now a 22-year-old exhibitionist,among other things, Cyrus has actually grown into a sexy woman if one can get past all the inappropriate nakedness, crotch shots, and tongue displays. But Cyrus still doesn't identify with girly-girls. In fact, she doesn't identify with girls at all, labeling herself as "androgynous."

"I didn't want to be a boy," she told Out magazine when asked about her childhood. "I kind of wanted to be nothing. I don't relate to what people would say defines a girl or a boy, and I think that's what I had to understand: Being a girl isn't what I hate, it's the box that I get put into."

Reese Witherspoon

Mople will not agree that this is a pampered princess that feature's ‘Legally Blonde' who convincingly portrayed a 14-year old tomboy in 1991. She isn't a tomboy anymore because she has embraced her feminine side. So those that want to watch her, you have the chance to do it because you will be seeing a person that has transformed beauty to a new level

Being the person that you were created to be is the sweetest thing life. The above ladies had a denial stage their lives but after some time things turned out to be better for them. They are now some of the most celebrated women on this world.