Sneak Peek! Child Stars: Then & Now

Find out where Kirk Cameron, Blossom's Mayim Bialik, the Charles in Charge girls and more child stars are in this excerpt from PEOPLE's new book, in stores June 23!

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KESHIA KNIGHT PULLIAM

Now: A Spelman College grad, Pulliam, 29, has a recurring role on the TBS sitcom Tyler Perry's House of Payne. In an effort to shed her "little girl" image, she posed for a swimsuit spread in Black Men magazine in '04 and vamped in a video for rapper Chingy. "As you approach 30," she says, "it's this feeling of, 'I'm, like, for real an adult."