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This 1992 snap of Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain in the bathroom while touring Japan with his band Nirvana has gone viral for being “the first selfie” — but it turns out there were many celebrity selfies before this one! Check it out…
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Paul McCartney
On an appearance on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, Sir Paul McCartney claims to have invented the selfie with this mirror pic! If you think selfies are narcissistic on their own, how narcissistic do you have to be to think you created it?
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Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin was the first person to capture the selfie from outer space with this space shot, taken during Gemini 12 mission in 1966.
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Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis
When Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis snapped this shot for 1991’s Thelma & Louise, they probably didn’t realize they were making history. But when they decided to recreate it earlier this summer, they dubbed themselves, “Inventors of the selfie.”
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John Lennon
Turns out Paul McCartney wasn’t the only Beatle known to snap a selfie! In 1967, John Lennon posed for this self-shot in his attic.
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Jackie and John F. Kennedy
Barack Obama may have won the presidency by relating to the young voters—but he definitely wasn’t the first trendy president! President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jackie Kennedy and her sister-in-law Ethel (wife of Robert F. Kennedy) made history with this mirror pic 60 years ago.
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George Harrison
When it comes to the Beatles, George Harrison may have been the true inventor of the selfie—having captured this shot at the Taj Mahal in 1966, when he was just 23 years old.
