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Picture Day | NEZZA

NEZZA pulls up for Picture Day and takes it back to her celebrity crushes, her first kiss story, the music she was playing on the way to school, and the superlative she’s claiming for 2026.
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But yeah, Hilary Duff Metamorphosis album was on repeat,
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sang that into my hairbrush in my room,
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and 3LW. The first one that comes to mind is Ryan
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Scheckler. Fully was obsessed.
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I also thought I was like a skater girl back then,
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so I thought I was going to be like Miss Ryan Scheckler
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I think he's,
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I think he's married,
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and I wish him well.
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It's also Justin Timberlake,
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also Zane from One Direction.
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So, my first kiss happened in the seventh grade with this
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guy named Tyler. He was my boyfriend.
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And I was like,
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I just wanna do,
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I just wanna get it over with.
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And I remember he walked me to the bus,
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and he was like 6'1,
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and I was like 4'11 at the time.
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So I went for it,
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and I missed his mouth.
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Not only did I This,
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it was the most awkward position.
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It was like half of his lips,
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half of his cheek.
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And I remember just being mortified.
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And I just remember being like,
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OK, bye. And I rushed onto the bus.
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And I was like,
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no, no, no,
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like, no, like,
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no way, that was my first kiss.
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And so I texted him.
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I was like, sorry,
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that was awkward and da da da.
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And he was like,
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no problem, we'll try again tomorrow.
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And he was really sweet about it.
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I would listen to Radio Disney.
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We would play it every morning.
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Go to school was Radio Disney.
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Hilary Duff Metamorphosis album was on repeat,
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sang that into my hairbrush in my room.
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And 3LW Woo, 3LW.
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I think just being more carefree.
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I also miss like the community that I had back then and
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it was the dance community,
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especially growing up back home was,
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was my life. So,
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yeah. Yes, and I got caught.
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As a Capricorn Goody Two Shoes straight A student,
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it was the worst day of my life.
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I never did it again.
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Even the principal called me in.
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I remember like freaking out.
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I said, please don't tell my parents,
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and he didn't. But he's like,
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you are gonna have to do trash duty at lunch for a
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week. And I said,
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deal. I think I was also just scared of my Dominican
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mom. Christina Aguilera,
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I loved, she always had like the best hats.
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Like she always had these like great trucker hats and like her
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hair, she always did all this crazy good stuff with her
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hair. It was Most likely to be Famous.
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The guy, his name's JT.
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it was us that won Most Likely to Be Famous together.
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In 2019, I got to dance with Black on Kimmel.
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I walked into rehearsal.
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JT was there. I was like,
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What are you doing here?
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And he was like,
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What are you doing?
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Here and I was like,
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I'm dancing for Black on Kimmel.
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And he was like,
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I'm his engineer. And I was like,
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no freaking way. So it's really full circle.
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We took a picture by the Kimmel sign.
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We sent it to our parents side by side with our high
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school photo of us like most likely famous and us at Kimmel
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So, yeah.
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Most likely to inspire,
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but be a diva at the same time.
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Hey, this is Nezza,
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and this is my picture day.