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Can I ask, which famous person do you get told you look like?

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FishingIsNotASport · 07/08/2018 13:18

Some friends were over at the weekend. Their kids love Mrs Doubtfire and had watched it again recently. They told me how much I look like the mum character in the film, Sally Field . My son-in-law then piped up and said "Yeah I thought that too when I first met you". I can't see it myself but it could have been worse (thank the lord they didn't think I look like Robin Williams in drag!).

Can I ask who you get told you look like and whether you're happy with the comparison?

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Beautifulblue · 07/08/2018 21:07

Fearne Cotton, just a shorter, fatter version. (No ones said that I just think it when they say it, lol.) Grin it sort of makes sense to me because I think my mum looks like fearne cotton sometimes!

pandarific · 07/08/2018 21:15

Dido.

nonnatushouse · 07/08/2018 21:18

Roisin Conarty

nonnatushouse · 07/08/2018 21:19

Roisin Conaty correct spelling

catinboots9 · 07/08/2018 21:20

Fairuza Balk

FaultySpice · 07/08/2018 21:21

I've had Audrey Hepburn a few times. Even showed DS a pic of her when he was little and asked who it was - he said mama! Also Winona Ryder when I had cropped hair.

IllHaveALargeGlassOfRed · 07/08/2018 21:25

Oh oh oh! I was likened to Audrey Hepburn a couple of years ago!

I was really really quite chuffed at that one.

Tunnocks34 · 07/08/2018 21:31

Mila Kunis. All the time too, I’d say at least monthly, someone will mention it.

I honestly can’t see it myself, other than the long dark hair, I can’t see anything we have in common. Of course I take it as a massive compliment as I think she’s beautiful, but I do think people are overly kind!

VeganCanBeFabulous · 07/08/2018 21:32

I get told I look like Stacey Slater from eastenders. I can see it but I am quite a bit older and fatter. When my husband had hair he looked like Rupert Penry Jones.

Tunnocks34 · 07/08/2018 21:33

My Oh got told once he looked like Patrick Dempsey, and then literally three weeks later, he got told he looked like the baddy hair sniffer from Charlie’s Angels 😂😂

He’s got a hand one, heart shape face, lots of dark hair and quite a large, bent nose so somewhere in the middle of the two I think.

Tunnocks34 · 07/08/2018 21:33

Hand one = handsome

inlectorecumbit · 07/08/2018 21:34

Kylie...

tosleepallday · 07/08/2018 21:42

A couple of years ago I got told I looked like Kourtney Kardashian by three separate people within about a week of each other.....
I haven't had anyone say it since though

Belindabelle · 07/08/2018 21:43

Ingrid Bergman. He may have been trying to get me into bed. I was 19 at the time. Some years later I found out that my Aunt was mistaken for her once so it could be true.
Recently I have been likened to Isabella Rossellini so maybe there is a resemlence.

oldfatandtired1 · 07/08/2018 21:44

A young Diana Rigg. That will do me,

Evenstar · 07/08/2018 21:46

When I was young people thought I was like Joanna Lumley at the same age, my mother thought I looked like Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones (now Sarah Chatto, Princess Margaret’s daughter) and a few years ago a friend thought I looked a bit like Melinda Messenger! I’m nearly 54 now so it will be interesting to see if I get any other comparisons. People often think they have met me before, so maybe I do have a look of someone.

Oddcat · 07/08/2018 21:49

Susanna York .

rhubarbfool · 07/08/2018 21:51

When I was younger, Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn - I think it had more to do with my frame and the way I dressed, tbh. (And also - as someone else said - I think all dark haired, skinny girls with largish noses get likened to AH.) More recently, Eva Green, and then I watched the James Bond movie and could sort of see it.

Obviously a poor man’s / slightly crap version of all of them. Like being the plain sister - there’s some sort of resemblance but the actual beauty’s missing.

And now I’m ancient and look like Wurzel Gummidge.

Feckitall · 07/08/2018 21:52

I have had Suzi Quattro a few times...I am 17 years younger...wear glasses...3 inches taller.. more dumpy not a ounce of musical ability...only similarity is thick wavy hair

Watchingtheworldgoby · 07/08/2018 22:00

Cate Blanchett. I have somewhat pointy features and perhaps similar cheekbones. I think that is why. Otherwise I’m two stones overweight and 5 ft 2 and absolutely nothing like her!

leanne9312 · 07/08/2018 22:02

Rihanna but that was a few years ago and I'm also white, did use a lot of tan though(not now)

mydogishot · 07/08/2018 22:04

An ex in an absolute double for tom hardy.

I do hope the bad sex and ape hands don't apply to the real one!

jazzyfizzles · 07/08/2018 22:05

Kelly Osborne, I used to get it shouted out of cars to me and my old manager ordered me a 'kelly' badge rather than my real name

SwishyHairMummy · 07/08/2018 22:05

Julia Roberts and Meghan Markle, not sure why as I look like neither tbh Grin

Can I ask, which famous person do you get told you look like?
jarhead123 · 07/08/2018 22:06

Priscilla Presley (before the plastic surgery!)

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