Freaky Friday Braces Memory

Here's Annabel Andrews from the 1976 Disney movie "Freaky Friday," about to get her braces off.  (She's played by a young Jodie Foster, and the braces were actually just a movie prop... but still.)

A few updates:

Her braces get quite a bit of attention in the movie.

Some '70s era school dude asks about them.

Her little brother thinks she looks beautiful in them.

And he wants some braces for himself as well!

Brian Posehn, uber-nerd

Actor and comedian Brian Posehn, in his bio Forever Nerdy, described being a nerdy kid in the '70s and '80s.  He had gotten glasses early, and later, as you can see by his picture, braces. As he wrote: "I had gotten gawkier looking with braces and a retainer. And some days even headgear."  

Posehn described himself as an uber-nerd, and that "when I was around ten years old, I was the lethal combo of super tall and super skinny with dorky, black-framed glasses, pimples and braces."

Unfortunate School Pic

The perils of having a mouthful of metal on school picture day.

Braces on '80s Cereal Promotion

Following up on my last post about '80s braces, here's another artifact from that decade featuring braces:  an '80's era promotion on a cereal box.

Another '80s orthodontic patient holding an '80s handheld video game.