Carley Shimkus began working at Fox Information proper after school, so it solely is smart that she seems just a little totally different in pictures taken previous to her time on the community. That stated, some issues actually have not modified, like her profitable smile. 

Although Shimkus turned a co-host on “Fox & Mates First” in 2021, she’d labored on the community for greater than a decade previous to that. And, whereas she began in behind-the-scenes positions, she started making appearances in entrance of the digital camera throughout her time as a producer on “Imus within the Morning.” Carley began engaged on the present in 2012, and as she revealed in a Fox Nation YouTube video, it was because of the present’s host that she began shifting in a brand new course. “Don Imus … had an enormous a part of my story, placing me on the air,” she recounted. It is no shock, then, that when the polarizing shock jock died in 2019 aged 79, she took to Fb to gush, “Thanks for every thing.”

With that timeline in thoughts, the below-left throwback pic is from Shimkus’ Instagram circa 2012 — and let’s simply say, along with her effortlessly tousled blond locks, sun-kissed pores and skin, and killer smile, the then-25-year-old may simply have handed as a doppelganger for Candice Swanepoel. In reality, it bears mentioning that she and the Victoria’s Secret angel are the identical peak. Becoming, as some might do not forget that Shimkus as soon as advised Fox Information Insider she’d tried her hand at modeling throughout her teenagers. Nevertheless, as she shared with Fox Nation, she’d at all times been a fan of the community, so it is secure to say her determination to go in one other course was for one of the best. 

Whereas Carley Shimkus’ Instagram solely goes way back to 2012, she’s additionally shared snaps of herself from earlier than then with Fox Information Channel. In honor of the “Fox Information Yearbook” sequence, she provided up a collection of her highschool pictures, from her yearbook image to group photographs with pals. Understandably, she seemed just a little totally different then, and Shimkus herself commented on that. “I simply cannot consider how younger I seemed,” she mused. Granted, she did not look completely totally different. Positive, she seemed youthful, and her hair was a darker shade of blond, however she nonetheless had her signature shiny smile. Plus, not one to be pictured with out make-up, Shimkus additionally sported the beginnings of her trademark cat-eye. Effectively, sans the most important lashes she’s identified to sport these days. 

So far as senior yearbook pictures go, there is not any query that Shimkus’ was fairly near the perfect. As such, it is most likely no shock that she advised Fox Information Channel she did not dislike it. Nevertheless, she additionally wasn’t leaping for pleasure over it. “I believed it was tremendous. If I needed to grade it again then I’d give it a ‘C,'” she stated. 

Along with sharing recollections of soccer video games and cafeteria shenanigans, Shimkus additionally mirrored on her go-to fashion throughout her highschool years. It might come as a shock to some, however she advised the outlet, “I went by way of a hippie section … so I wore a variety of flowy skirts and headscarves and beads, and I’m at the moment laughing considering again on it.” On condition that boho fashion was the pattern du jour within the early aughts, Shimkus’ outfits weren’t amongst her most inappropriate. Even so, we’re not banking on her re-wearing them on air anytime quickly.