The people laughed in his face but Kanye West was on to something when he proclaimed that his wife, Kim Kardashian deserved to have her own Hollywood star on the Walk of Fame.
The celebutante with social media followers in the upper millions successfully managed to accomplish what she set out to do, break the Internet with her Paper magazine photo shoot.
Of course, news these days is heightened by the presence of social media and technology, which wasn’t present when the allure of Hollywood increasingly began to grow.
Check out the collective of stars who paved the way for Kim Kardashian’s cakes to be so popular.
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Photo: WENN, Warner Bros.
Photo: Universal Studios
Phoebe Cates
1982’s Fast Times at Ridgemont High had to be relegated to the talk of classroom discussions because there was no Twitter.
Photo: Warner Bros.
Halle Berry
We’re not saying the Internet wasn’t around in 2001 when Halle went topless for Swordfish, but there was certainly no meme machine to feed it.
Photo: Calvin Klein
Mark Wahlberg (And Kate Moss)
Calvin Klein knew how to get mouths of both sexes watering by recruiting these young stars for a then-salacious ad in 1992. Nick Jonas, this is your daddy.
Photos: Penthouse
Vanessa Williams
The tabloids exclusively had a field day during the first Black Miss America’s 1984 scandal.
Photo: WENN
Sharon Stone
Just think of the memes that would have generated from Ms. Stone’s infamous cooter shot from Basic Instinct in 1992.
Photo: Vibe Magazine
TLC
The biggest female group of all-time suggest that the “T” in their name stood for something else in their 1994 Vibe magazine spread.
Photo: Playboy
Vanna White
The co-host of “America’s Game” became America’s business in 1987 when she posed for Playboy.
Photo: Paramount Pictures
Jaime Lee Curtis
To this day, Curtis’ jugs in 1983’s Trading Places still come into conversations about the best–and unexpected nude scenes.
Photo: Miramax Films
Ewan McGregor
The future Hollywood heart-throb went full frontal for 1996’s Trainspotting.
Photo: Playboy
Cindy Crawford
Imagine the nonstop social media fever there would have been when the world’s biggest supermodel got into cahoots with Hugh Hefner in 1988.
Photo: 20th Century FOX
Kelly Preston
When she was just 23-years-old, Preston gave the boys everything they wanted to see in 1985’s Mischief. John Travolta included.
Photo: WENN
Pam Grier
Had it been an option, “Foxy Brown” could have birthed the Black Twitter movement.
Photo: Playboy
Geri Halliwell
The Spice Girls were larger than life in the late 90s and Ginger Spice let the world know if the carpet matched the drapes in Playboy.
Photo: WENN
Jayne Mansfield
Your grandfather would have been trolling the Instagram of the OG pin-up girl, had he been able to.
