Pre-Rehab

Happy birthday, Kim Richards.  She's 48 today, but you may remember her as a child star.  She was introduced to us in the 70s as Prudence in Nanny And The Professor, and later appeared in several Disney movies such as Escape To Witch Mountain. Yes, as an adult she's become the aunt of Paris Hilton, been in rehab more than once, and is one of The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills, but I'd rather ignore all that.

A friend of mine once thought she, as a teen, was really cute.  Some years later he started a correspondence.  Except (and I'm fuzzy on the logistics) it turned out friends of his were pretending to be Kim Richards in the letters he received.  He finally got wise when in one of the messages she admitted that she hadn't been working much lately, and was mostly making money on her back. (Though considering how things turned out, that wouldn't have been the worst thing that happened to her.)

But let's return to those innocent days when she had a bright future as the youngest cast member of a new show on ABC:





PS  It really bothers me that the tic tac toe lines aren't even.