I’ve worked at Hooters since the noughties – my then and now pictures show the transformation, the ‘glow-up is real’
A LONGTIME Hooters employee invited her followers to join in a nostalgic look at her early days with the company.
Her throwback photos from the early 2000s are stunning, but people agree current pictures prove her “glow-up is real.”
During the restaurant’s heyday in the noughties, Nikki (@nikkibethfit) worked as an “OG Hooters girl.”
She took lots and lots of photos – and she held onto them.
Now, she can reminisce on TikTok, where she posted a slideshow of sixty pictures that wowed her viewers.
Over the course of six seconds, Nikki crammed in dozens of snapshots from her career at the famous restaurant.
Highlights included plenty of photos of her in uniform, including theme days.
A throwback photo showed Nikki on “eighties day” in legwarmers, neon, and a fanny pack.
She recreated the same pose, years later, in a western getup complete with a cowboy hat.
Other photos had a distinctly vintage air, like the grainy group pictures on an early cell phone camera.
There were a few charming similarities in the photos of Nikki now and then.
Several photos from both eras showed her goofing off with coworkers or posing at special events.
Just as older photos show Nikki outside of Hooters with her coworkers, newer snaps show her posing with colleagues who have become friends.
Over time, Nikki traded her warm blonde hair (a very 2000s style) for a softer, natural shade.
She also modernized her makeup, ditching the super-skinny eyebrows of the early aughts and applying feathery lashes.
Other than that, not much has changed – Nikki still looks great in the uniform she’s worn for years.
Nikki was clearly proud of the life she’s built for herself, and the person she’s become, since first donning the orange shorts.
“The glow-up is real,” she wrote in the caption.
Her viewers, delighted by the retro photos, agreed.
“I love all the 2000s Hooters pics of you,” one fan wrote.
Another woman even said that Nikki inspired her to make a career change.
“I wanna be a Hooters girl so bad,” the admirer wrote.