https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/semi-ot-do-you-ever-get-told-that-you-look-like-a-celebrity Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:06:18 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/semi-ot-do-you-ever-get-told-that-you-look-like-a-celebrity/page/3#post-268322 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 19:56:37 +0000 Isabel 268322@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That is interesting about you !!! With me, it is usually Middle Eastern or Armenina no matter where I am. Except one time in the northern part of MI, at a truck stop, I ordered a some breakfast and the women said, " Let me guess, you're Bostonian." It definitely wasn't my "look" !!!!</p> <p>Maya, have a great holiday my fab friend !!!!!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/semi-ot-do-you-ever-get-told-that-you-look-like-a-celebrity/page/3#post-268320 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 19:51:17 +0000 Maya 268320@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I learned something new today My username for a number of applications is PeppermintGomez, incidentally :p</p> <p>I am apparently very easy to mistake for lots of different nationalities, and I find that what I get mistaken for depends very much on where I am. In France it was Spanish. At the Greek-owned pizza parlor by my best friend's college, it was Greek. In the Armenian neighborhood my friend lives in near Boston, it was Armenian. </p> <p>And so on.... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/semi-ot-do-you-ever-get-told-that-you-look-like-a-celebrity/page/3#post-268319 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 19:46:58 +0000 Isabel 268319@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Maya, that is interesting !!! You are right about the peninsula and we must remember that the Moors came through and spent some time there "mixing". As did some Greeks - in fact the Athenian philosopher, Gomesius, moved to Spain and people started naming their children after him and it is believed that is how the name Gomez came to be and now Gomez is most popular in Mexico !!!!</p> <p>BTW : How WONDERFUL is it to have these conversations here amidst the beads, boots, and baubles? That's why I love it here so much !!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/semi-ot-do-you-ever-get-told-that-you-look-like-a-celebrity/page/3#post-268314 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 19:40:11 +0000 Maya 268314@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Isabel, I am the opposite of you. I am Middle Eeastern and Indian, and when I was in France, everyone thought I was Spanish. Very interesting. There has been so much intermixing over centuries in the Iberian peninsula, so I can understand where that comes from. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/semi-ot-do-you-ever-get-told-that-you-look-like-a-celebrity/page/3#post-268312 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 19:31:07 +0000 Isabel 268312@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>MsMaven, OMG, you could pass for his twin sister ! Holy cow ! It is particularly jarring since you are both aging alike too ( you are aging MUCH better than him- just looking like him - or maybe he looks like you. )</p> <p>I always find it interesting when people of different nationalities look similar. I have come to believe, that I look very Middle Eastern ( I am Portuguese ). When I first moved to Boston, some Armenian and Iranian students thought that I was one of their "countrymen". I was so blessed and lucky to learn about their cultures because they simply approached me thinking I was "one" of them and we ended up being very good friends and teachers to each other of our little corners of the world. It really is a fabulous world out there with its wonderful people. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/semi-ot-do-you-ever-get-told-that-you-look-like-a-celebrity/page/3#post-268305 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 18:54:45 +0000 Maya 268305@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>haha, Una, I used to get Princess Jasmine too when I was in 4th grade and the movie first came out. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/semi-ot-do-you-ever-get-told-that-you-look-like-a-celebrity/page/3#post-268298 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 18:37:43 +0000 Velma 268298@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I've been told for years and years and years that I look like (wait for it . . . ) Velma from Scooby Doo. :-)</p> <p>Must be the glasses. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/semi-ot-do-you-ever-get-told-that-you-look-like-a-celebrity/page/3#post-268294 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 18:24:28 +0000 catgirl 268294@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Firefly, when Aladdin came out, a friend of mine was constantly told by her 4th grade students that she looked like Princess Jasmine! Not the image you want as a teacher, but it was just because she's Indian and had long wavy hair. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/semi-ot-do-you-ever-get-told-that-you-look-like-a-celebrity/page/3#post-268186 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 14:40:04 +0000 firefly 268186@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What a fun thread! Apart from one or two Indian celebrities, the only "celebrity" I've been told I resemble is Pocahontas! I'm not sure how I feel about being told I look like a cartoon character...</p> <p>This isn't the most flattering picture of me - I've lost weight and also cut my hair since then - but maybe other people see something I don't. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/semi-ot-do-you-ever-get-told-that-you-look-like-a-celebrity/page/3#post-268130 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 05:09:15 +0000 MsMaven 268130@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Now I remember--I was told I look like a bloke in the early days of the Beatles--Paul, to be exact. You decide. </p> <p>Maybe all that rock 'n roll isn't so good for face in the long run. Either that or it is amazing what a smile and some make-up can do for you.</p> <p>Got to say it--this was a lot of fun. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/semi-ot-do-you-ever-get-told-that-you-look-like-a-celebrity/page/3#post-267992 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 23:22:56 +0000 catgirl 267992@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Okay, I just remembered a minor celebrity who actually DOES look like me (because she's Indian), Kiran Ahluwalia, a singer. I think it's the nose... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/semi-ot-do-you-ever-get-told-that-you-look-like-a-celebrity/page/3#post-267849 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 19:04:00 +0000 Isabel 267849@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Dusty, I can actually see that !!!!</p> <p>I am proud to say that in elementary school, people thought that I looked like Marcia Brady ( I forget her real name). Being a little Portuguese immigrant, this made me feel like I had really "arrived" in America ! ; ) How funny. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/semi-ot-do-you-ever-get-told-that-you-look-like-a-celebrity/page/3#post-267842 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 18:59:07 +0000 Dusty 267842@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Back in college, I had a few friends who insisted that I looked just.like. Lucy Lawless. Honestly, I think it was just the fact that we both had long hair and thick bangs. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/semi-ot-do-you-ever-get-told-that-you-look-like-a-celebrity/page/3#post-267785 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:03:15 +0000 Irene 267785@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yes, I've been told I look like Liv Taylor by a friend. We actually have a similar face-shape but her eyes are way prettier. She's overall prettier, let's face it lol. A couple of months ago I got told I look like Kristen Stewart (Twilight Girl) by a friend of a friend. Weird, but since I find both of them are quite beautiful and astrangely beautiful, like somewhat special, I'm fine with it. I take it as a compliment eventhough I see no similarities :)</p> <p>Oh, yes, and there was this girl in my class, this was scary lol. My friend would get confused all the time. We wore similar glasses, had similar hair and dressed very similar (although she was slimmer than me at that time). Even I got kind of freaked out. One day she cut her hair and started looking like herself and so I could look like myself again and we were happy ever after lol I don't think I've ever seen her again -or maybe I just don't recognize her </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/semi-ot-do-you-ever-get-told-that-you-look-like-a-celebrity/page/3#post-267592 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 04:09:30 +0000 Sveta 267592@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>When I was a teenager I was frequently told that I resemble somebody's niece / cousin / daughter... It drove me nuts as it suggested that I have such a common appearance that I resemble everybody!<br /> Thanks God it ended when I entered my 20s and now I resemble myself only!:-)<br /> Taylor, you always remind me Jamie Lee Curtis! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/semi-ot-do-you-ever-get-told-that-you-look-like-a-celebrity/page/3#post-267578 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 03:50:39 +0000 Anonymous 267578@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I've been told Mia Farrow and Ellen Barkin ... two women who look nothing alike! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/semi-ot-do-you-ever-get-told-that-you-look-like-a-celebrity/page/3#post-267570 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 03:31:08 +0000 Katiepea 267570@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I can remember feeling incredibly offended when I was around 19 when my neighbour said I look like a young Meryl Streep! (I was sensitive about my nose and this all but confirmed my worst fears &lt;tee-hee - I giggle about it now!&gt;)</p> <p>I think I must have one of those 'character' actress kind of faces (she writes, rolling her eyes dramatically.... :-)) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/semi-ot-do-you-ever-get-told-that-you-look-like-a-celebrity/page/2#post-267568 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 03:29:24 +0000 April 267568@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Perhaps 20 years ago, when I was recently married, my (now ex-) husband and I went to a business dinner event. Another spouse at the dinner became aggressively convinced that I might actually be an actress I'd never heard of, from a slightly trashy show I'd never heard of. (Mitzi Kapture, from Silk Stalkings: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/37utacw" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/37utacw</a>)</p> <p>He perseverated on that issue the whole evening, which was not fun. </p> <p>This was in the pre-internet, pre-computer-in-every-household era, so I had to be clever to find a picture of this woman. When I did, I understood that there was minimal resemblance (dark hair, light eyes) and that he was just demented. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/semi-ot-do-you-ever-get-told-that-you-look-like-a-celebrity/page/2#post-267543 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 02:44:58 +0000 Kyle 267543@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Tricia, Bella and Sarah, you are celeb lookalikes. My husband always says Uma Thurman (he's blinded by love, I think). Back in the day it was Blair from the Facts of Life. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/semi-ot-do-you-ever-get-told-that-you-look-like-a-celebrity/page/2#post-267513 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 01:51:24 +0000 anne 267513@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Speaking of children's mistaking you for someone, one of kids thought Angie was me! (this was on the old format, when Angie was a drawing and had a bob)</p> <p>Interesting thought process Polly! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/semi-ot-do-you-ever-get-told-that-you-look-like-a-celebrity/page/2#post-267409 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:28:27 +0000 Polly (thunalata) 267409@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I haven't been mistaken for anyone famous, but this thread has made me think about where this all comes from.</p> <p> I wonder if it's a combination of<br /> 1. a physical trait (height, build, hair colour, face shape etc) with<br /> 2. your bearing (how you hold your head, how you turn, how you walk, the gestures you make, your facial expressions) and/or<br /> 3. what you wear (whether that's specifics or the fact that you make an effort and therefore exude stylishness -ALL YOU MISTAKENEES TAKE NOTE) that make<br /> people think of celebrities they have seen.</p> <p>So it could be just two or three things in conjunction that do this. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/semi-ot-do-you-ever-get-told-that-you-look-like-a-celebrity/page/2#post-267400 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:16:00 +0000 Auburn 267400@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I routinely get two celeb comparisons and pretty frequently:<br /> 1.) A "younger" (I hope so anyway!) version of Mary Tyler Moore--this one is sort of eerily spot on; and<br /> 2.) Minnie Driver--I don't see this one all that much except that we both have wide smiles...I'd kill for her jawline though! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/semi-ot-do-you-ever-get-told-that-you-look-like-a-celebrity/page/2#post-267399 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:09:10 +0000 Laura 267399@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Annette Bening! I don't see it at all, except that we both have short hair. Actually I think Taylor resembles her -</p> <p>When I had a blonde bob, about 15 years ago, people used to say Nicole Kidman - in that movie where she also had a bob and played the nutty tv personality. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/semi-ot-do-you-ever-get-told-that-you-look-like-a-celebrity/page/2#post-267381 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:34:06 +0000 Emily 267381@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I've always thought TX Sarah looked like Sarah Evans. Here's another pic with straight hair:</p> <p><a href="http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Evans,_Sara/gallery/PRN-020435/" rel="nofollow">http://www.starpulse.com/Music.....RN-020435/</a> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/semi-ot-do-you-ever-get-told-that-you-look-like-a-celebrity/page/2#post-267338 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:41:16 +0000 Mo 267338@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>My BF gets David Caruso. Especially when he's wearing his sunglasses Years ago, he's pretty sure he was mistaken for him at a restaurant in San Francisco and got seated ahead of people, a spread of free appetizers, etc. LOL. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/semi-ot-do-you-ever-get-told-that-you-look-like-a-celebrity/page/2#post-267336 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:36:25 +0000 chellebrate 267336@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Maya, I was going to guess Lea Michele before I scrolled down. I think since you've cut bangs she does resemble you more. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/semi-ot-do-you-ever-get-told-that-you-look-like-a-celebrity/page/2#post-267329 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:17:33 +0000 bella 267329@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sarah - I can definitely see the resemblance!<br /> Kdoux and Una - your stories are adorable! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/semi-ot-do-you-ever-get-told-that-you-look-like-a-celebrity/page/2#post-267307 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:46:32 +0000 catgirl 267307@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Marley, I agree with MaryK!</p> <p>Krishnidoux, my son once did the same thing in a store - he pointed at a picture of Salma Hayek and said, "There's you, Mama!". Er, not exactly. :)</p> <p> I'm pretty sure he has a thing for women with dark hair and skin! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/semi-ot-do-you-ever-get-told-that-you-look-like-a-celebrity/page/2#post-267304 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:41:35 +0000 MsMary 267304@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Marley, I can solve the mystery for you -- you look like a celebrity because you have such style, flair, and incredible presence!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/semi-ot-do-you-ever-get-told-that-you-look-like-a-celebrity/page/2#post-267282 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:14:30 +0000 biscuitsmom 267282@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I had a customer who told me I resemble Laura Bush! I dont see it at all...Ive also had customers 'confuse' me with co-workers who are at least 8 inches shorter and one has black hair, the other a light blonde and Im a redhead-lol people can be weird.... </p>