Celebrities who didn't age gracefully

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Believe it or not, Mickey Rourke was once considered hot. The devilish smile now is marked with a silver tooth, the sexy hair is now stringy and limp. But if you think "Surely Mickey Rourke cannot be the only celebrity who has not aged well" - you would be right! Judge for yourself.....

Ah, yes, believe it or not, Mickey Rourke was once considered hot. The devilish smile now is marked with a silver tooth, the sexy hair is now stringy and limp. But if you think "Surely Mickey Rourke cannot be the only celebrity who has not aged well" - you would be right! Judge for yourself.....

Nick Nolte was always a little rough-and-tumble, but now this bad boy seems much more rough than tumble.

Mary Tyler Moore won our hearts as a perky, determined career gal. Unfortunately, she appears determines to stay permanently perky.

He's been described as "heart-stoppingly handsome in his 20s, bloated and nearly immobile in his last films." The list of stars who didn't age as well as we'd hoped has to include Marlon Brando. He is perhaps the best example of someone who could have been considered a fairly attractive, yet overweight man, if he just hadn't been so devastating in his youth.

So maybe Sylvester Stallone was never handsome, but at least his nose was straight and his mouth didn't twist in funny ways. These before and after photos say it all. Sorry, Sly.

People magazine once gushed that Elvis Presley had "come-and-get-it eyes, down-comforter cheeks and self-basting lips. On one famous Sunday night in 1956, premier TV variety host Ed Sullivan wouldn't let his cameras show this kid below the hips. What was Ed thinking? Had he ever looked at Elvis above the neck?" The decline of the King of Rock and Roll due to drug use was a loss not only to American music, but to everyone who missed his beautiful face.

Val Kilmer played edgy, mysterious guys in the films "Top Gun," "The Doors," and "The Saint" (seen here, left) but recent photos of his paunchy frame prompted "The Insider" entertainment show to declare "Val Kilmer's sexy days are over."

In the 1981 film "Body Heat," The New York Times said Kathleen Turner "looks like the quintessenial forties siren." She was. That hair, that husky voice. In 2008, at age 54, she wrote a book about her life and her struggles with rheumatoid arthritis and alcoholism.

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Ah, yes, believe it or not, Mickey Rourke was once considered hot. The devilish smile now is marked with a silver tooth, the sexy hair is now stringy and limp. But if you think "Surely Mickey Rourke cannot be the only celebrity who has not aged well" - you would be right! Judge for yourself.....

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