This is Your Life, Kirk Cameron!

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Imagine yourself in this predicament: it's 1987, and you're 17 years old, starring on a hit network TV show, and a devout Atheist who can have ANYTHING (including GIRLS) you want--and you STILL aren't happy.

Well, This is Your Life, Kirk Cameron!

Your life began on October 12, 1969 in Panorama, California, the eldest child born to Rob Cameron, a rising 26-year-old math teacher / gym coach, and Barbara Bausmith, a 19-year-old recent high-school grad.

A year earlier, in c. 1968, your parents met and fell in love, and before the year was up, your mother was pregnant. Rather than have you raised a bastard, your parents marry 5 1/2 months into the pregnancy, on June 22.

3 1/2 months later, October 12, 1969, you, Kirk Cameron, are born.

5 1/2 years later, c. Summer 1974, your parents give parenthood another try, and on April 6, 1975, your parents gave you a little sister in Candace.

Growing up, your favorite show, as you admitted in your memoir, was "Happy Days."

In 1979, months after your 9th birthday, your mother's friend, Fran Rich (whose 10-year-old son Adam shares a birthday with you a year early to the day and was then in his 2nd season as the youngest son on "Eight is Enough") encouraged your parents to allow your family into show business.

Before the year was up, you made your acting debut in a Count Chocula commercial, just before your 10th birthday in October 1979.

Within 2 years, your sister Candace, just shy of age 6, followed you into the acting business. That same year, you appeared in bit parts on shows such as "Lou Grant" and a short-lived series adaptation of Disney's "Herbie the Love Bug."

In 1982, aged 12, according to People Magazine, you earned partial facial damage as a result of a skiing accident.

The following year, aged 13, you made your TV series debut opposite C. Thomas Howell on a drama series called "Two Marriages," which only lasted a single season.

In Fall 1984, not long before your 15th birthday, you auditioned for the role of the eldest teenage son on a situation comedy pilot called "Growing Pains."

YOU walk away with the part after saying to the producers, "Is this a comedy show or what?"

Around the same time, you shave a year off your true age to make yourself younger for the part of the teen son.

The pilot sold, and although ratings for "Growing Pains" struggled in its rookie season, by your 17th birthday, YOU are a bonafide teen heartthrob.

Not long after your 17th birthday, your parents tell you & Candace, then age 11, that they're getting divorced.

Around Summer 1987, not long after filming completed on "Like Father, Like Son" (where you starred opposite the late British actor Dudley Moore), you attend a Church in California and within a month change from a life-long Athiest to a devout follower of Jesus Christ.

6 months later, your parents reconcile and eventually remarry, and in Summer 1988, aged 18, you graduate from high school--months after your character's graduation.

A year after your high-school graduation, you meet and fall in love with 24-year-old aspiring actress/model Nancy Mueller, who, under the stage name Chelsea Noble, appears as a potential love interest of your character--an event that transfers offscreen as well.

Less than 2 years later, on July 20, 2001, you & Nancy marry in Nancy's hometown of Buffalo, New York. The previous April, however, you call the President of the network, calling your employers "pornographers."

The employers wound up quitting, and new writer-producers were hired for Season 7 of "Growing Pains."

At the end of the season, in spite of the fact that the show is #27 out of 102 shows on prime-time network TV, the network cancels the show due to its growing tired of your religious shenanigans.

A few years later, your sister Candace's show "Full House" is canceled after 8 years due to its being too pricey to produce.

Later that year, age 25, you appear on a self-titled WB sitcom created for you by Scott Baio. However, due to poor ratings, the series folded halfway through its 2nd season.

Soon after making the "Left Behind" trilogy of films, except for "Fireproof" in 2008, you retire from acting and begin a new career as a preacher.

In 2007, aged 37, you write a memoir published the following April titled "Still Growing," and today, at age 41, you & Nancy are the parents of 6 kids between ages 8 and 15 and reside in Southern California--and you are still preaching the Gospel, whether through TV or real Churches across the U.S.