So Caroline Kraft from 'Mean Girls' is gorgeous IRL

No Mean Girls fan will ever forget the first time they heard Cady Heron proudly declare "The limit does not exist!" in the math competition scene.

But no one remembers the moment more clearly than the fictional Caroline Kraft, whose team lost to Cady in that tie-breaking round.

Flash forward to 12 years after Mean Girls came out, and we are somehow only just discovering what Caroline Kraft, a.k.a. Clare Preuss, looks like in real life.

Here's a refresher on her 2004 swagger.

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Here's what Preuss looked like in 2004, the same year Mean Girls was released.

Clare Preuss during World Premiere of "The Prince and Me" at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California. Credit: Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic/getty images

Get ready for the slow reveal...

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Here's what Preuss looks like today.

Her disposition in real life is much more pleasant than that of Caroline Kraft's.

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Based on some Facebook posts, Preuss is still an actress as well as a director. She's based in Toronto, where she does a lot of theatre.

The news comes just in time for Mean Girls day, which is this coming Monday, Oct. 3rd.

[H/T: Daily Mail]