Trotz.com presents us with an unsettling fact: Anderson Cooper started life out as an unpainted Ving Rames action figure head!
The road to heartthrob is an often long and winding one, eh?

"To dispel the growing myth that [Diane Arbus] only took pictures of freaks, she made up a list of elegant people she wanted to photograph...As if to prove her point, she took a remarkable portrait of Gloria Vanderbilt's sleeping baby son, Anderson Hays Cooper, for a Harper's Bazaar Valentine issue. In this truly astonishing picture, the infant resembles a flat white death's head -- eyes sealed shut, moth pursed and moist with saliva. When Gloria Vanderbilt saw the photograph, she forbade Bazaar to publish it, but eventually she changed her mind and this stunning image

Anderson Cooper by Diane Arbus [Trotz.com]