The Rock Recreates The Infamous “Fannypack Photo” 21 Years Later

Alex PawlowskiMay 24, 2017, 2:00 pm

Everyone has at least one.

Everyone's got a photo from their youth that they'd never be able to live down if anyone found it today.

For The Rock, it's this photo:

The turtleneck, the gold chain, the 90s jeans, the fanny pack (my god, the fanny pack) and if that weren't enough, the thumb TUCKED INTO the fanny pack.

Of course, it's The Rock, so while this photo resurfacing years later would absolutely end a normal person, he was able to roll with the punches and laugh it off.

So much so that he volunteered to re-create the photo for a Saturday Night Live shoot, and posted the before and after on Instagram, along with a story about how far he's come in 21 years.

When I took this iconic absurdity of a picture in 1996 I was one year removed from sleeping on a used mattress I took from a garbage dumpster in the back of an hourly sex motel. Couldn't afford to buy a bed so we do what we gotta do to get by. You can imagine all the fun colorful bodily fluids I tried my best to clean off. 21 years later I'm taking the same photo backstage hosting #SaturdayNightLive for the fifth time. If you're going thru your own tough times "used mattress" stage, do your best to have faith things'll get better and always be willing to outwork your competition because you never know where life is gonna take you. And ALWAYS remember to place a soft tissue under your left elbow as to protect the fabric of the cheap ass swag turtleneck that had you out here looking like a bad ass buff lesbian. Oh and tuck the thumb in the fanny pack. Always tuck the thumb. —-

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