Really, and pink-cheeked pretty beads of advertising, whose smile made us buy up chocolates, the juices and designers are not young, but parents or even grandparents?
Our favorite movie heroes of childhood have long grown up and even aged. Performers, whose albums we heard before the tape broke in the tape recorder, also gathered for retirement.
1. A girl from the chocolate wrapper "Alenka"
You will not believe, but the history of this legendary wrapper is still of interest to this day, although it all began almost 60 years ago! Then the confectionery factory "Krasny Oktyabr" decided that its milk chocolate "Alenka" urgently needs an original package, because before that the products were always on the shelves of the store in different wrappers. Especially for this was a contest!
Photo correspondent Alexander Gerinas, who, incidentally, not only worked in the factory, but also himself took part in the design of packaging, decided that the photo of his 8-month-old daughter Elena should also experience good luck.
Then a picture of a baby in a kerchief was already known thanks to numerous exhibitions, publications in the publication "Soviet Photo" and the cover of the magazine "Health". But the uniqueness of a few worried, and since 1966 this photo has become a chocolate!
After a while and thanks to the efforts of the artist Nikolai Maslov, the photo of Elena's girl turned into a hand-drawn picture. As a marketing move, the eyes of the little girl in the kerchief became not brown, but blue, the face of the face more elongated, and the upper lip more plump. And this was enough for numerous trials! In the 2000s, the parents of Elena Gerinas suddenly realized that it was their daughter's photo that brought the chocolate to such unprecedented popularity and demanded a fee of 5 million rubles (then about 100,000 euros) from the factory! But it was not then ... After all the transformations, the image of the girl was not much like the photo of the 8-month-old Elena. Even forensic experts recognized only 18 similar features and called the girl's drawing just a collective way! By the way, on this image, "several" candidates with a fee requirement have "flown".
But nothing has changed since then - after the death of her father Elena found negatives of the photo, a handkerchief and even the cover of the magazine "Zdorovie", but to no avail. It is known that now "Alenka" lives in the Moscow region with her husband and two children, and also she became a specialist in the field of pharmacology.
2. A boy from the first wrapper "Kinder Chocolate"
If you are from the 90's, then your first chocolate Kinder you wandered, unpacking the wrapper with a photograph of the good-natured little boy Gunther Euringer. Today, the "chocolate child" is already a 53-year-old cameraman, husband and father of two children remembers that on the package he appeared thanks to his mother - an advertising agent who simply took him to the shooting. About his high point and teenage experiences Gunter described in detail in the autobiographical book "Chocolate Child", issued in 2005. The most interesting thing is that Euringer denied the public opinion that the chocolate maker paid him a commission for a recognizable smile for all 32 years on the wrapper.
3. The boy with a new wrapper "Kinder Chocolate"
Well, the secret of the first wrapper of your favorite chocolate is uncovered, which means it's time to find out the name of the new hero. Meet - since 2005, "Kinder Chocolate" is decorated with the smile of Josh Bateson. And this boy did not miss the opportunity to take advantage of his popularity. Now he is 22 years old, he lives in London and works as a model. And if you subscribe to his page in Instagram, every hour you will admire the smile of Josh, which has become even more charming!
4. Girl with baby logo «Gerber»
Did you believe that a baby with big eyes and an open mouth on baby food "Gerber" was the fruit of the artist's imagination? And here not! Back in 1930, the parents sent a photo of the 5-month-old Anna Turner to the announced contest of the brand's logo, and a year later the girl's face appeared on every "Gerber" product! It is known that Anna Turner devoted most of her life to teaching English, and having gone to a well-deserved rest began to write mystical novels.
5. Red-haired girl from the advertisement "Lego"
Most likely, when in 1981 the charming Rachel Giordano decorated the packaging of the most popular designers in the world, we could admire the original Lego packages only from the pages of the catalogs. But the red-haired baby went down in history, and 37 years later, and with the help of the authoritative edition of The Huffington Post, the doctor Rachel Giordano recreated that sweet memory from her childhood!
6. Boy from the advertising of breakfast "Life"
If our children 40 years ago did not even hear the words, such as "casting" and "photographic tests", then their parents took their western one-year-olds by the hand to such events several times a week. So in 1972, the 3-year-old John Gilchrist was removed to advertise the "Life" breakfast cereals, and after this advertising twelve more years were played on all screens of the country. But, alas, the boy does not remember anything about it! By the way, since then, John has become the hero of advertising for another 200 (!) Times, and now, he lives and works as a sales manager in a company in New York.
7. A girl from the advertising "Pepsi" in the 90's
Despite the fact that the commercials of popular soda had a myriad, this curly little girl was remembered for a long time. By the way, her name is Helly Keith Eisenberg and she is the sister of the same actor Jesse Eisenberg ("Social Network"). Now Helly has already gone 25th year, she starred in TV shows and even plays on Broadway.
8. Hershey-kola - the taste of victory!
Yes, we remembered this slogan not by chance, because it was repeated by all teenagers of the 90s, after the advertisement of the starring role with redheaded Sasha Loye appeared on the screens. Well, now Alexander Loye has already become a respected actor of the theater and cinema, although we will remember him and love him with a mischief from "Yeralash"!
9. Girl from the advertisement of the juice "My family"
Nowadays the phrase "And you pour and go away" would be called a maem, although even then Diana Shpak's words went to the people and began to live their lives. You will not believe, but in addition to advertising the juice "My Family" Diana lit up in the rollers for "Kinder-surprise", and was also a "purple lilac, ripe garden" in the advertisement of the juice "Fruit Garden". Now Diana is 20 years old, she lives in Los Angeles, starred in TV shows, works as a TV presenter, voices cartoons and even completes her second book from the planned trilogy!