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Rebel Wilson -

The Australian actress was exposed in 2015 when a school friend told the papers that she was actually in her mid-thirties rather than 29, as she had been claiming.

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Rebel Wilson -

Following the incident the tabloids portrayed Rebel Wilson as a serial liar, a depiction that resulted in a high-profile defamation lawsuit.

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Hilary Duff -

The Disney star has admitted to using her sister Haylie’s ID to get into nightclubs when she was underage.

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Ironically, in later years Duff starred in ‘Younger,’ a TV series centered around the topic of lying about your age.

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Eminem -

In 1999, Marshall Mathers lied about his age during an interview with Howard Stern, saying that he was 24 instead of 27.

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People were so surprised that the rapper would care about something so trivial as age that it was thought perhaps he genuinely forgot how old he was.

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Jennifer Lopez -

Early in her career, Jenny from the Block used to say that she was born a year later than she actually was.

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Jennifer Lopez -

It was only when her then-boyfriend Sean "Diddy" Combs was arrested and she was taken in for questioning that J.Lo was forced to reveal she was born in 1969 rather than 1970.

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Mila Kunis -

The actress reportedly lied about her age to land one of her first roles in ‘That '70s Show.’

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Mila Kunis -

She auditioned when she was just 14, but told producers she was "going to be 18."

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Nicki Minaj -

For a long time the rapper told people that she was born in 1984, when actually she was born in 1982.

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It was only in 2011 when she was arrested and questioned by police that her true birth year was revealed.

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Laurence Fishburne -

The esteemed actor lied to the legendary Francis Ford Coppola to land the part of Clean in the 1979 war film ‘Apocalypse Now.’

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Laurence Fishburne -

He told the director he was 16, when actually he was only 14. His age apparently showed during a scene where he had to talk about his love of Playboy magazines.

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Geri Halliwell -

When the Spice Girls shot to fame in the mid-90s, Ginger Spice told the press that she was 21 when she was actually 25.

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Geri Halliwell -

She was later outed by fellow band member Victoria, aka Posh Spice, who let slip in an interview that Halliwell was older than that.

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Nicole Scherzinger -

In 2008, it was revealed that this member of The Pussycat Dolls was 30 years old, contrary to the band’s website, which listed her as being 28.

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Nicole Scherzinger - When questioned about the misinformation, Scherzinger laughed it off, quipping that it should state she was even younger.

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Anastacia -

The singer was exposed for one of the biggest known age-related lies in the industry.

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Anastacia -

When she was promoting her new album, she said that she was just 22 years old when in reality she was actually 30.

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Sandra Bullock -

The actress has lied about her age multiple times, claiming on different occasions that she was both older and younger than she actually was.

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Sandra Bullock -

In 1993, she told a journalist for Detour magazine: "After a while you have no idea how old you are because you’ve lied so many times."

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Gabrielle Carteris -

The then-29-year-old star of ‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ lied about her age when she auditioned for the part of 16-year-old Andrea Zuckerman.

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Gabrielle Carteris -

She reportedly consulted lawyers to check that it was legal to sign the filming contracts having lied about her age.

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Nelly -

In 2003, the rapper appeared in Teen People’s list of the Hottest Stars Under 25, even though he was 28.

See also: 30 psychological reasons why people lie

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