Ages ago I was told I looked like Cheryl Tiegs. Actually my younger sister looked a lot more like her--very similar coloring.

Ha, I love this thread! I've been told I look like Virginia Woolf (a compliment? I tend to take it as one). In fact, during "dopleganger week" on facebook, even my mom couldn't believe this photo wasn't of me!

Jenava, I wouldn't have thought of Virginia Woolf as looking like you initially, but she sure resembles you in that particular photo.

The best compliment that I ever received:
Waiting in line at the pharmacy with my son who was then four. A bunch of magazines were laid at his eye level. One of them showed a young smiling model with similar complexion and hair style as mine. My son pointing to the picture said very loud: "Mommy look it's you!"
People in line heard it and turned around to look and smiled. It was so cute of my son.

I may add I look nothing like a model. But it goes to prove that beauty is in the eye of the beholder...

When I was heavier and had gray hair I used to get told I looked like Paula Deen from Food TV. That was one reason I went back to blond! LOL

When my hair was very long I used to get told Claudia Schiffer and more recently Nicole Kidman. I just think 'yeah, that's why I work in an office'

This has been a very fun thread.

I get stopped a lot of times and asked who I am because people THINK that I am a celebrity - I just don't get it - but its become a joke with my family and friends over the years - it usually happens when I'm at a restaurant and someone will come up to the table and ask me who I am! - or at an airport. They are just positive that I am a celebrity, but they can't just can't think who it is! So weird! (And even when I tell them that I am not, some of them don't believe me.)
I used to be told that I looked like Cameron Diaz - also when I had my hair short and spiky people would tell me that I looked like Annette Bening - of course, I was also told that I looked like Sting!

I have only ever been told I look like one celebrity: Drew Barrymore. And people have been telling me this for more than ten years.

Since Emma Watson cut her hair short, I've been told I look like her.

Back in the late 90s when I was just out of college, I used to get told I looked like Shannen Doherty - ALL the time. Random guys in bars, cashiers in stores - I heard it everywhere. I never could see it, although I did have the same hairstyle at the time that she has in this photo.

I've been told I look like Julia Roberts, Cindy Crawford, and, a while ago I used to get Brooke Shields. Also, Tina Fey recently, when I wear my glasses. Apart from all of these women being brunettes, they don't have much in common with each other, or with me for that matter :)!

Not me
But my husband has been told few times that he looks like Bruce Willis, they even have the same hair, or luck of hair, lol
http://www.moviewatchlist.com/.....allpaper-8

I do! I get told I look like Sarah McLachlan (#1) and Sara Evans (#2). Sara Evans more recently though since I've lost weight. Not that Sarah is fat, but she has a rounder face than Sara.
In fact, funny story, I once posted a photo of Sarah (#3) on a forum of alumni of my school, and even good friends thought it was really me. In all fairness, I even had the same hair cut at the time, so we looked even more similar. Of course I corrected it after awhile, but that was fun. (Can't find the sepia picture I used, but here's a snapshot of it.)

Mo, perhaps we are long-lost cousins. Someone once told me I look like Jerry Seinfeld as well! (Not only do I not look like Seinfeld, I don't look like Mo either.) I have also been told that I look like I could be John Travolta's sister. I don't get that either, but I do hope they are talking about John Travolta in Grease and not John Travolta in Pulp Fiction. The only other person anyone has told me I look like is Yitzhak Rabin's granddaughter. Unfortunately, I have never seen a photo of her--apparently the newspaper ran a photo of her shortly after her grandfather was assassinated, and this person saw it. No idea if we look alike.

The first time I met my husband he insisted the I looked like Bridget Fonda. (He still brings this up, in fact.) I think there's no resemblance and no one else has ever thought that there was either.

What a fun thread. Apparently I just look like me, which is fine.

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....

Marley, I can solve the mystery for you -- you look like a celebrity because you have such style, flair, and incredible presence!!

Marley, I agree with MaryK!

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.

I'm pretty sure he has a thing for women with dark hair and skin!

Sarah - I can definitely see the resemblance!
Kdoux and Una - your stories are adorable!

Maya, I was going to guess Lea Michele before I scrolled down. I think since you've cut bangs she does resemble you more.

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.

I've always thought TX Sarah looked like Sarah Evans. Here's another pic with straight hair:

http://www.starpulse.com/Music.....RN-020435/

Annette Bening! I don't see it at all, except that we both have short hair. Actually I think Taylor resembles her -

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.

I routinely get two celeb comparisons and pretty frequently:
1.) A "younger" (I hope so anyway!) version of Mary Tyler Moore--this one is sort of eerily spot on; and
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!

I haven't been mistaken for anyone famous, but this thread has made me think about where this all comes from.

I wonder if it's a combination of
1. a physical trait (height, build, hair colour, face shape etc) with
2. your bearing (how you hold your head, how you turn, how you walk, the gestures you make, your facial expressions) and/or
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
people think of celebrities they have seen.

So it could be just two or three things in conjunction that do this.

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)

Interesting thought process Polly!

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.

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: http://tinyurl.com/37utacw)

He perseverated on that issue the whole evening, which was not fun.

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.