The unwitting star of Nirvana's breakthrough Nevermind album - one that would catapult them to super-stardom - wasn't old enough to be aware of his role in the birth of grunge music.
Spencer Elden, now 20, is still introduced as the 'Nirvana baby' two decades after the release of the album and has learned to cope with the extra attention his brush with fame generates.
The fine art student now studies at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, where his father Rick let his infant son appear as a model for an up-and-coming band's new album in 1991.
He told CNN: 'When I am introduced, they introduce me as the Nirvana baby.
'My dad was an artist rigging special effects for Hollywood. They went to the local pool, threw me in the water and that was it. 'It was a friend-helping-a-friend kind of thing.'
It is now 20 years since Nevermind was released by the then little-known Seattle band, featuring hit songs including Smells Like Teen Spirit, forced alternative rock into the mainstream.
The front cover, which features Spencer as a baby swimming naked in a pool as he appears to chase a dollar bill being reeled in on a fish hook.
The front cover, which features Spencer as a baby swimming naked in a pool as he appears to chase a dollar bill being reeled in on a fish hook.
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