Check out Joey Essex and Chloe Sims in this major #throwback snap!

One of our fave current members of TOWIE - Chloe Sims shared a picture of her and cousin Joey Essex to wish him a happy 25th birthday.

The picture was taken 16 years ago and Chloe is looking very fresh-faced, while Joey is majorly unrecognisable.

Since first appearing on The Only Way Is Essex in 2011, 32 year old Chloe has gone through quite the makeover - she even has bright-blonde hair now.

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The reality TV star captioned her picture with 9-year-old Joey: "Happy birthday @joeyessex90 both not looking so "reem" here haha but thought we did back then love you so much can't believe you're 25!

"Hope all your birthday wishes come true x 16 years ago."

Happy belated birthday Joey, and well done on the old school picture Chloe.

Recently Chloe was in Marbella with the rest of the TOWIE crew filming.

And while most of us have a few body hang-ups, but end up thinking “f**k it”, chucking on a bikini and making the most of our much-deserved summer holiday every year.

The TOWIE girls have confessed to heat just how much they spent getting ready for filming The Only Way Is Marbs – and it adds up to almost £10,000!

This breathtaking amount is broken down into clothes – Danielle Armstrong took a whopping 16 bikinis and 15 kaftans for her week in Marbs – beauty treatments, including Ferne McCann’s microdermabrasion facial, and personal training sessions.

Yet they STILL felt under pressure to look good at all times of the day and night, as Ferne confessed in a June issue of heat magazine.

“You’re sat on a sun lounger, crouched over, trying to get your sun cream. You look up and FLASH, and you’re like, ‘Are you joking? I look horrendous’,” she explained.

Chloe agreed, telling us that she shelled out over £2,000 before the TOWIE cast hit Spain to get beach-ready – but she still wasn’t happy with the way she looked.

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