Melissa Joan Hart Takes Us Back to Her 90s Hairstyles, Boy Band Friends and Iconic Fashion Looks
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00:00Hey, I'm Melissa Joan Hart, and this is Take Us Back.
00:03Okay, so this must have been like my Shirley Temple era,
00:05where with my curly hair.
00:07This is insane.
00:08Like, I went through an era, even on,
00:10this is on Sabrina days, I believe.
00:14Because I think that dress, I was very into Vivian Tam,
00:16and I think that's a Vivian Tam dress.
00:18And my hairdresser and I had come up
00:20with like a healthier way to do curls,
00:22which was like in an iron, the iron in the oven.
00:25And so I remember I went through a whole phase,
00:26I think on Sabrina, where we did a lot of curls.
00:28So this is obviously the curl era.
00:30Yeah, so you take the curling iron,
00:32and it's like, I forget what it's called,
00:33but it's like a little hot oven.
00:35It's open, and you stick it in there,
00:37and it gets hot, and it comes out.
00:38So it's not electric heat,
00:39it's like more of a steamy heat, I think.
00:41So it makes these really, really tight barrel curls.
00:44And my hair is really fine, so it holds it.
00:46Like, it does not let go.
00:48This is at one of the MTV Rockin' Jock baseball games,
00:52me and Ryan Reynolds.
00:53We had done the movie Sabrina, the Teenage Witch,
00:56the original movie, which we filmed in Vancouver,
00:57which is where Ryan's from.
00:59And so he played the guy that I was trying to get,
01:02I think, but I actually go to Harvey.
01:05I realize he's not, he's a bad boy, he's not for me.
01:08But Ryan and I created a really wonderful friendship,
01:10and there's another picture from this game
01:12where we're talking to each other very intently,
01:14and I wish I could remember what we were talking about,
01:16but for some reason we were like really
01:18deep in conversation.
01:20But yeah, I guess we took a few pictures,
01:22and I remember I jammed my thumb in this game.
01:24Ken Griffey Jr. hit like a line drive,
01:28and I had my thumb in the mitt and jammed my finger,
01:31and I had a black finger for like,
01:33I don't know, months from this game.
01:34So one of the most painful nights of my life right there.
01:38Not because of Ryan.
01:40Oh my gosh, this is probably my first red carpet.
01:43I'm with Tia and Tamara Mowry, and Jenna Bonoi here,
01:47who I just saw like a week ago for the first time in years.
01:50And Andrea, and I mean, we were, Jodi,
01:52we were going to like a kid's choice award?
01:56Not Nickelodeon kid's choice award,
01:58maybe like there's like a youth in film award
02:01or something like that.
02:02And I think it was like my first time really in a limo,
02:04pulling up to a red carpet and walking out.
02:06These girls all knew how to do it.
02:07Like Jenna knew how to work the red carpet.
02:09She's standing there, hand on the hip,
02:10smiling for every camera, and I'm like,
02:13what do I do?
02:14Who do I look at?
02:15There's so many cameras.
02:16And I was just like a little embarrassed,
02:17but I followed her lead, and she was a great sort of,
02:20I mean, she didn't know she was teaching me,
02:21but she taught me kind of how to handle that situation.
02:24So that was fun.
02:25And I still love all these girls.
02:29This was at some kind of publicity event thing,
02:33and I was pregnant with my first son,
02:34and we were on like, it's almost like a photo booth
02:37before they had photo booths.
02:38So that's why it's green in the back,
02:39because they could switch the background.
02:41And I'm wearing my,
02:43I refused to wear maternity clothes back then.
02:45So this is honestly just a brand called Hardtail
02:48from like the early 2000s,
02:50which had elastic waistband stuff
02:52before leggings, Lululemon was around.
02:54So everything was very stretchy.
02:56So I was just wearing like this stretchy skirt
02:57and stretchy top, and my husband's kissing my belly.
03:01So weird.
03:02It's like a lifetime ago.
03:03Oh, this is me and JC from NSYNC.
03:07And we were friends back when I was at Orlando Nickelodeon.
03:12He was on the Mickey Mouse Club,
03:13and we were friends back then.
03:15And then of course, during the Sabrina years
03:18and NSYNC's big rise to fame,
03:20we were kind of always put in the same situations.
03:22I was hosting the American Music Awards,
03:24they're winning awards.
03:25We're at the, you know, TRL or all these things,
03:28the same, I was, you know, kind of in the same circles
03:30as like Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears
03:31and Christina Aguilera and everyone.
03:33Keri Russell was around a lot in this time too.
03:35And so a lot of the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse kids
03:39that I knew from childhood or teen years
03:42were now all, we're all in Hollywood
03:43and we're running into each other at these parties.
03:45So I think I was talking to them.
03:47It looks like, I think I was on my knees on the floor
03:49because I kind of always get down on the floor,
03:50which makes people very uncomfortable.
03:52But I'm sure I was like just talking to him.
03:54He was sitting there.
03:55I just wanted to like get on the floor in front of him
03:56and then someone snapped a picture.
03:59Luckily.
04:00Okay, so this is 90's Con recently,
04:03maybe last year, with a lot of the cast.
04:06Beth and Caroline and Nate, who played Harvey,
04:09and Elisa Donovan and Jenna Vanoi, who played Libby.
04:12And we've all been showing up at these 90's Cons.
04:14They have them in Hartford, Connecticut
04:16and they have them in Florida.
04:17And it's been such fun to have people
04:20kind of come back and be nostalgic
04:21and be around all these people too.
04:22Like Jodie Sweetin and the cast of Full House will be there
04:26or Tia and Tamara Mowry or Mario Lopez
04:30and the cast of Saved by the Bell
04:31or Joey Lawrence and the Lawrence Brothers.
04:33So I get to kind of not only meet the fans at these
04:36and have people reminisce about 90's nostalgia,
04:38I get to kind of regroup with my cast
04:42and get reacquainted and then also reacquainted
04:44with all people I worked with
04:46or ran into at all these parties and stuff.
04:47The Backstreet Boys will be there sometimes.
04:51So we have some fun at these 90's Cons.
04:53We have really good time.
04:56Oh my goodness.
04:58Oh wow.
04:59I don't think I've ever seen this picture.
05:01So this is in Australia.
05:04Were we actually at the beach?
05:05We were in Sydney, Australia.
05:07I'm in my eagle dress.
05:09I wear this eagle dress.
05:10I bought this in Australia on this trip.
05:12I was shooting a movie in Melbourne
05:14and they came through and so I went up to Sydney
05:18to see them and I got to go on tour with them
05:20for like a day and be on the tour bus
05:21and I've never seen anything like it.
05:23We pulled into a square in Australia
05:25and every angle, when we pulled into the intersection,
05:28every angle of every avenue was jam packed with people.
05:31I don't even know how we pulled the bus in
05:33and people hanging out of the apartments above
05:35and off the balconies and stuff.
05:36It was like Beatlemania for the Backstreet Boys
05:39and it was, I think I stood on stage
05:42while they performed in front of me
05:43which was really weird to stand there and be like,
05:46I don't know what to do.
05:47I don't want to start dancing
05:48and I don't really know their music very well either.
05:51But that eagle dress I purchased in Australia
05:55and I still wear it every 4th of July.
05:57I have worn that pregnant.
05:58I have worn that when I'm at my thinnest.
06:01I have worn that when I am not
06:03at my happiest, comfortable body self.
06:07But that eagle dress lives
06:08and that eagle lands every 4th of July.
06:10And then me and Brittany.
06:12This is the premiere of Drive Me Crazy
06:14which was my movie, her song.
06:16And we did a ton of promotion and stuff together
06:18but this was at the premiere in New York.
06:21We'd already had the premiere, I think, in LA.
06:22We were doing the premiere in New York.
06:24This was actually a rough day in my life.
06:26If you want to, you can read about it in my book,
06:29Moments that Explains It All
06:30because it's way too complicated to get into now.
06:32But this is a day that just kind of like,
06:33this was me, you can tell I'm a little teary eyed
06:36at this picture.
06:37I'd been crying.
06:38This was the day that I kind of fell apart.
06:39But you can read about it in my book.
06:42It's all fine now.
06:42Just was a rough day.
06:44And then me and Soleil.
06:45So this is why you hire a stylist these days.
06:48And this is why celebrities now always hire stylists.
06:50Because I decided to put this cardigan sweater
06:52over some mom jeans and some weird purse thing
06:56and a choker necklace on.
06:59We didn't have a lot of stylists back then.
07:00So this is an obvious example of what can happen
07:06downfalls of not hiring a stylist.
07:09But I did like the dark hair on me.
07:11And Soleil, of course, has always had
07:12the long, gorgeous brown locks.
07:14And we're still best friends to this day.
07:17Even though we dress like this.