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To ask what famous person you have been told you look like

430 replies

oreshina · 12/09/2020 23:42

Over the years been told:
Natalie Portman - happy about this
Hilary Swank - not so happy
Natalie Wood - had to Google her
Someone once asked for my autograph when I was 17...they thought I was Billie Piper 🤔

OP posts:
tympanic · 13/09/2020 00:13

Marion Cotillard

hazandduck · 13/09/2020 00:15

Thought of more -

Helen Flanagan (from my mum!)
Julie Christie (also mum)
Kate Winslet

I really do have one of those faces!

Lucy1981k · 13/09/2020 00:17

I had Billie Piper until around age 23-24. I then had Kourtney Kardashian Until around age 30 (this was a common one). Now my teenager and teenage friends are convinced I look like Kim Kardashian, although I am pale and not at all tanned, I also only really wear a little mascara so I’ll take that!

Lovely1a2b3c · 13/09/2020 00:17

A decade ago, in my early 20s, Keira Knightley.

GlitchStitch · 13/09/2020 00:18

I've also had Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Nicole Kidman in her younger curly days and Jean Butler (original Riverdance woman). It's definitely the hair!

Ozster · 13/09/2020 00:18

Cheryl Cole by many people. Jessica Alba/ Penelope Cruz by a few .
I've had an enormous head since!

Pipandmum · 13/09/2020 00:18

Nastassja Kinski, especially when Cat People came out and I had short hair.

elQuintoConyo · 13/09/2020 00:19

Hattie Jacques.

I'll take that, she was awesome!

Fatarseflanagan09 · 13/09/2020 00:22

Vivienne Leigh
Elizabeth Taylor
Can't see it myself though.

Vivi0 · 13/09/2020 00:24

Victoria Beckham!

Scarby9 · 13/09/2020 00:24

As a teenager - actress Susan Hampshire who was then featuring in the Forsyte Saga. My family didn"t watch it, and with no internet it took about a year for me to find out what she looked like.
Recently, someone who saw a picture of me in my late teens said I looked like a young Hermione Granger. I can see it in that picture, but sadly not in life.

DarkHelmet · 13/09/2020 00:24

Joan Jett mainly. Cher once or twice.

Tiredmumno1 · 13/09/2020 00:24

martine mccutcheon by a few people years ago, I thought they had gone crazy 😁

1forAll74 · 13/09/2020 00:29

When much younger, people said I looked like Pauline Collins, in her Shirley Valentine days, and also, because I used to drink wine in the afternoon with my neighbour,. and make egg and chips for my Husbands dinner, instead of steak and chips, as forgot to get some rump steak at the village butchers.!

BewilderedDoughnut · 13/09/2020 00:30

Margot Robbie - I get this at least a few times a month from strangers.

I don’t see it! 😂

Beanosaurus · 13/09/2020 00:30

Patricia Arquette in True Romance 😂 and Kirsten Dunst. I see neither!

Slinkymalinky1 · 13/09/2020 00:32

Julia Roberts (when I was young with a perm) loved this one.
Sandra Bullock (apparently only when I don't wear makeup though) I'm ok with this Grin
Kiera knightly, when I was thin. Gutted I'm no longer thin as this was my favourite
Tara Palmer tomkinson nothing against the girl, RIP, but I didn't like this one.
Gloria Estefan when I first met my dmil
Elle Macfercen, when I was young and slim and again quite recently. Could have actually kissed the woman that said it recently, but then she said'I think it's the wide mouth HmmGrin
I'm sure I only have a very passing resemblance to all of the above, but it was nice.
I now generally just get told I have nice eyebrows, which is more complementary to the micro blade lady than me 🤷‍♀️🤣🤣

Tuliptulip · 13/09/2020 00:33

Growing up I was told I looked like Ali MacGraw from Love Story - a lot.

Slinkymalinky1 · 13/09/2020 00:33

Oh and Effie our of Skins, which was another fave. This came from my son. Think he asked for money few minutes later HmmGrin

Scoopstroop · 13/09/2020 00:34

Winona Rider.
There was a resemblance, we both had eating disorders so that might have helped.
Unfortunately i look less and less like her the older I get.

TeensArghhh · 13/09/2020 00:34

During my teenage years I was told, repeatedly, that I looked like Suzie Quattro.

From age 30 (or so) I was likened to Jill Dando. I can’t see it myself 🤷🏻‍♀️

Slinkymalinky1 · 13/09/2020 00:35

@Fatarseflanagan09

Vivienne Leigh Elizabeth Taylor Can't see it myself though.
These are amazing! I'd be strutting Grin
thenightsky · 13/09/2020 00:35

Sarah Parish.

Slinkymalinky1 · 13/09/2020 00:35

@Ozster

Cheryl Cole by many people. Jessica Alba/ Penelope Cruz by a few . I've had an enormous head since!
If someone told me I looked like Chery Cole, I'd have a big head too! Smile
GiGi18 · 13/09/2020 00:38

Helena Christensen
Zooey Deschanel
but mainly Helen Flanagan