It’s Avril Lavigne’s Birthday, So Celebrate With Her Hottest Maxim Throwback Photos
We’ll always love this Canadian pop cutie.
![avril-lavigne-maxim-1](https://www.maxim.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/avril-lavigne-maxim-1.jpg?resize=788,444)
![avril-lavigne-maxim-1](https://www.maxim.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/avril-lavigne-maxim-1.jpg)
Come with us, if you will, to the year 2002.
Donald Trump was a real estate tycoon, not yet even a reality star, Hillary Clinton was a junior senator from New York with a bad husband, and Avril Lavigne was a punky young pop starlet who burst onto the scene with her debut hit single, “Complicated.”
Then, there was “Sk8er Boi.”
Ah, what a simpler time it was.
![avril-lavigne-maxim-6](https://www.maxim.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/avril-lavigne-maxim-6.jpg)
![avril-lavigne-maxim-5](https://www.maxim.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/avril-lavigne-maxim-5.jpg)
Case in point, now you can’t even Google search Avril Lavigne’s name without coming across malware… or conspiracies that she is secretly dead and has been replaced by a clone. Luckily, you’re safe from all that nonsense here.
![avril-lavigne-maxim-4](https://www.maxim.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/avril-lavigne-maxim-4.jpg)
![avril-lavigne-maxim-3](https://www.maxim.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/avril-lavigne-maxim-3.jpg)
Help us celebrate the Canadian cutie’s 35th birthday with this retrospective of photos from her sexiest Maxim shoots.
![avril-lavigne-maxim-7](https://www.maxim.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/avril-lavigne-maxim-7.jpg)
![avril-lavigne-maxim-8](https://www.maxim.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/avril-lavigne-maxim-8.jpg)
You’ll be glad you did, eh?