The little girl from Nirvana's 'Heart Shaped Box' video has a child of her own now
Alexandra Pollard

15:30 15th February 2016

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Of course, the most famous Nirvana-related child star is - and always will be - the swimming baby on the cover of Nevermind. But a close second, and one near to the hearts of many diehard fans, is the creepy little girl in the controversial 'Heart Shaped Box' video.

This week, 23 years after starring as said creepy little girl, Kelsey Rohr finally reunited with Dave Grohl. The photo of the pair together, Rohr no longer creepy, Grohl no longer in his 20s, went viral. But what about the other ordinary people who starred in videos, or on album covers, that went on to become iconic? 

Well, here's what happened to them. 

  • Nirvana's 'Heart Shaped Box' video - then: The controversial video starred this mildly creepy seven-year-old girl, fixing the camera with a steely glare and standing by an old man's hospital bed.

  • Nirvana's 'Heart Shaped Box' video - now: 23 years on, Kelsey Rohr is now all grown up, with a kid of her own. This week, she reunited with Dave Grohl, who she says called it a "historical moment"

  • Blink-182's Enema Of The State album cover - then: The 1999 album featured porn star Janine Lindemulder on its cover.

  • Blink-182's Enema Of The State album cover - now: Later that year, Lindemulder announced that she was leaving the porn industry to pursue a career as a kindergarten teacher. It didn't work out, and she returned to porn in 2004. Since then, she's had a few stints in prison for non-violent offences such as income tax fraud.

  • U2's War album - then: The boy with the strikingly angry eyes is Peter Rowen (brother of Bono's friend, Guggi). He also appears on the covers of Boy, Three, The Best of 1980–1990, Early Demos and many singles.

  • U2's War album - then: The boy with the strikingly angry eyes is Peter Rowen (brother of Bono's friend, Guggi). He also appears on the covers of Boy, Three, The Best of 1980–1990, Early Demos and many singles.

  • KoRn's self-titled album - then: KoRn's debut album showed a little girl alone on a swing set, with the ominous shadow of a large man looming over her holding some tools. The girl was 6-year-old Justine Ferrara.

  • KoRn's self-titled album - now: Ferrara, who doesn't remember much from the shoot, other than thinking that ominous man was nice for covering the light in front of her. The tools were added to the picture in post production. She graduated in Communications at New York University in 2009 and now works as an Administrative Assistant for The Threadshop at Sony Music Entertainment. She's not a KoRn fan.

  • Nirvana's Nevermind album - then: Rick Elden decided to let his infant son appear as a model for a photo shoot for an unknown band. They took the baby to the local pool, threw him in the water and got a series of underwater shots. Nirvana decided to make this one the cover of what would become one of the most iconic albums of all time.

  • Nirvana's Nevermind album - now: Spencer Elden is now in his 20s, and studying fine art at the Art Center College Of Design in California.

  • Arctic Monkey's Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not album cover - then: Chris McClure, a tea boy and friend of the band, who is the brother of Reverend And The makers' Jon McClure, was snapped while smoking a fag on a night out in Liverpool's Korova bar. The band decided it was perfect for the cover of their 2006 debut album.

  • Arctic Monkeys' Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not album cover - now: Aside from the fact that he's still active on Twitter, and occasionally posing for photos like this one with Arctic Monkeys fans, we're not sure what Chris McClure is up to now.

  • Bob Dylan's The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan album cover - then: The album cover saw a 21-year-old Bob Dylan walking down a snow-covered Greenwich Village street with a 19-year-old woman.

  • Bob Dylan's The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan album cover - now: The woman in question was artist Suze Rotolo, Dylan's then-girlfriend, who inspired some of his most famous early songs, including 'Don't Think Twice, It's All Right'. He later acknowledged her strong influence on his music and art in the early '60s. Rotolo died of lung cancer in 2011, aged 67.

  • Pulp's 'Common People' video - then: The 1995 video featured a dance routine improvised by Jarvis Cocker on the day of shooting, and a relatively unknown actor called Sadie Frost.

  • Pulp's 'Common People' video - now: Two years later, Frost married Jude Law, and became tabloid fodder for the next six years, before their divorce in 2003. She's set to appear in dark comedy film Set The Thames On Fire, alongside Noel Fielding and Lily Loveless.

  • Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream - then: In accordance with the album title, the 1993 cover supposedly showed conjoined twins. In 2007, Billy Corgan asked fans to help him find the girls, saying, "They are not conjoined anymore, as far as we know." He subsequently tweeted, "Just found out the weirdest news: our bass player Nicole just admitted she is one of the girls on the cover of Siamese Dream."

  • Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream - now: The band's bassist was not one of the girls on the cover. This is Ali Laenger, who is the girl on the left. The girl on the right is LySandra R.

  • Muse's 'Sunburn' video - then: The video for 'Sunburn', which featured on the band's 1999 debut album, starred then-unknown 16-year-old actor Brooke Kinsella.

  • Muse's 'Sunburn' video - now: Kinsella went on to star in Eastenders for several years in the early noughties, but she and her family made headlines in 2008 for tragic reasons - her half-brother, Ben, was stabbed to death. Kinsella subsequently became an anti-knife crime campaigner.

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