As you can tell, Band-Aides and ice packs were in constant supply at the Fatone household. But while most of these bumps and lumps healed with no evidence whatsoever, there are a few visible scars that this Brooklyn, New York-born babe, who joins Chris Kirkpatrick, Justin Timberlake, Lance Bass and JC Chasez on their 1998 self-titled debut CD, which includes the single "God Must Have Spent A Little More Time On You," will have to sport for the rest of his life.

Take, for example, the ones on his face near his eyebrows. While these scars don't show up in many of Joey's hot shots, they can be seen up close by the naked eye. "When I was a baby, I was jumping up and down in my crib and I hit my head on a piece of metal," the 22-year-old explains to BOP as he points to a blemish right above his eyes. "And this one," he continues, singling out another scar on his forehead, "my mom, one time, was yelling at me and she went to [smack] me, but instead, I turned my head real fast. I was next to a wall, so I ended up hitting my head on a light switch and it cut my eyebrow."

While Joey, 10 or 11 years old at the time, probably deserved a wising up for his mom to scold him like that, the consequence of his pain sent his poor mother into a panic. "She thought she hit me," he says, remembering how she saw him lying on the floor bleeding, "but she didn't, that's the funny thing. She went to slap me and I turned my head and I just went down. I was like, 'Ow! I hit my head on the wall!' I got up and she was [in shock]."

Time and quite a few stitches may have helped heal Joey back to normal, but unfortunately, the ease with which this sweetie scars has forced him to keep a first-aide kit close at hand to this day. "Here's a little secret," Joey confides about yet another permanent marking near his eyebrow. "In the 'I Want You Back' video, I sometimes had to take out my eyebrow ring because the metal rejected and it got infected. You'll see me [in the video] with ski caps on."