Sarah Jessica Parker growing up

Sex & the City star Sarah Jessica Parker ended up living the dream of almost every girl’s growing up in the ’80s: she got famous, she got rich, and she married Ferris Bueller himself, Matthew Broderick.

Here’s the modern-day SJP on the cover of Marie Claire in 2010:

As you can see from this photo of Sarah Jessica from when she was about 9 years old, she is still very recognizable!

Even earlier, here’s SJP as a happy little toddler:

And here’s Sarah Jessica Parker with her Square Pegs co-star Amy Linker on the cover of Dynamite magazine in February, 1983, when SJP was 17.