For anyone who was a teenager in the late '90s, Ryan Phillippe was the hottest guy around.
With bad boy roles in both "Cruel Intentions" and "I Know What You Did Last Summer," he may not have been the guy to bring home to mom ... but he was definitely the one you wanted to meet up with after sneaking out of the house.
Throw in a high profile romance with Reese Witherspoon, and these two were like teen movie royalty.
While a lot has changed in their personal lives since the two costarred in the Upper East Side update of "Dangerous Liaisons," one thing hasn't: Ryan's hotness.
The actor celebrates his 40th birthday today, and recently, Phillippe's looked better than ever.
Back in June, he showed off his incredibly shredded physique on the beach, along with his growing collection of tattoos (right). Yeah, it's possible he looks even better now.
And then yesterday, he made us all swoon with a sweet birthday message to his daughter with Reese, Ava.
"15 yrs ago today, was my last on, "The Way of the Gun". A helicopter waited off set to transport me from the "Mexican brothel" in Utah to Cedars Sinai in Beverly Hills," he tweeted. "With my stomach in knots, exhausted & dirty, covered in syrupy fake blood & shards of candy glass ... found the pad and I was taken to an area to sterilize myself. I made it to my then wife's bedside w/ two hours to spare before my baby girl first entered the world. 15 years ago I learned what love truly is."
Everybody now: Awwwwwwwww!
Ryan was only one of many sexy stars we obsessed over back in the day though. Check out the gallery above to see if people like Freddie Prinze Jr., Andrew Keegan, Skeet Ulrich, Ethan Embry and more have all aged as well as Mr. Phillippe here.
