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"Were you a smiley kid? My parents have albums of my early years filled with tons of pics of me laughing and grinning from ear to ear, especially when I was naked, or on the beach&amp;amp;#8212;sometimes my liberal folks let those two things happen simultaneously, which is when I just couldn&amp;amp;#8217;t stop smiling...but I&amp;amp;#8217;ll save that for another post. Back to your childhood photos: Do they show you smiling a lot, or were you a more serious bebe? There&amp;amp;#8217;s good news for your love life if you wore a perma-grin growing up, like me&amp;amp;#133;A recent study, discussed in this article, found that the more intense someone smiled early on in pics, and I mean intense&amp;amp;#8212;scientists measured facial muscles!&amp;amp;#8212;the more likely that person was to stay married later in life. It sounds kinda goofy, right? But the stats are convincing: &amp;amp;#8220;The top 10 percent of smilers had a 5.5 percent divorce rate, while 27 percent of the bottom 10 percent of smilers were divorced.&amp;amp;#8221; Were you a pouty kid? Don&amp;amp;#8217;t despair! Scientists did come across people who were not pictured grinning growing up who are in solid marriages and have great relationships now, and others who were big smilers early on, but are now divorced. I didn&amp;#x27;t have a pic of myself as a kid with me, so here is one of Glamour.com editor Lindsey Unterberger (here with her baby cousin circa 1980-something). She was clearly a smiley kid! I wonder if Mel Gibson, who&amp;amp;#8217;s in the midst of a divorce right now, was a smiley kid? Or, what about Madonna who recently put herself back on the market when she divorced Guy Ritchie? If this research is true, celebutot Violet Affleck is going to have one heck of a marriage! She never stops smiling. Were you a smiley child? Or, did you frown a lot growing up? Do you think smiling has anything to do with predicting how happy you will be in your marriage? Do you know anyone who was a super-smiley kid and is now happily married or vice versa? Why do you think grinning kids may have more successful relationships? Plus, don&amp;#x27;t miss these photos of Smitten readers: What did your parents look like when they were falling in love? Smitten readers&amp;#x27; siblings 12 amazing prom photos The cutest puppies ever! Looking for Joanna? She&amp;#x27;s on vacation but will be back next Monday. Jessica Strul is a freelance writer who lives in New York City. She has written for CosmoGirl (RIP!), Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Time Out New York and other publications. She&amp;amp;#8217;s been known to eat chocolate for breakfast."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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