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Re: Do you get told you look like someone famous?

Yes, back in the day I was told I looked like Melanie Griffith. I thought our hair had the same look, she is taller than I am and she got some of the most handsome men to marry her. I enjoyed looking like her.

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Re: Do you get told you look like someone famous?

My mother had a friend who resembled first lady Barbara Bush.  I don't think people actually thought she was Barbara Bush but they just thought they knew her.  It got her the best seats in restaurants and many little perks along the way.  

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Re: Do you get told you look like someone famous?

I was quite young then, a few girlfriends and I went to Wildwood, NJ for Labor Day weekend.  We were walking on the boardwalk and I stopped to have a portrait done.  The guy said I looked like a young Lauren Bacall.  Heard that a few times since then...

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Re: Do you get told you look like someone famous?

When the movie Frozen came out, I was told that I looked like Elsa , nearly every where I went. Not as much lately since its been a couple years ago now that the movie was popular. 

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Re: Do you get told you look like someone famous?


@Azcowgirl wrote:

When the movie Frozen came out, I was told that I looked like Elsa , nearly every where I went. Not as much lately since its been a couple years ago now that the movie was popular. 


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Me, too!  I would have little kids point and say --- look -- there's Elsa! They would be so ecxcited!  I would be smiling and thinking to myself --- oh, boy -- I wish I looked that good!  LOL! 

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Re: Do you get told you look like someone famous?

I used to get told at various times in my life that I looked like Goldie Hawn or Olivia Newton John.  I said -- I'll take that!!!!  Woman Wink

 

Now -- nobody --- too old!  Smiley Sad

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Re: Do you get told you look like someone famous?

I can think of four entertainers I've been told I look like.  I won't name them because I only look a little like one of them, more like another but not really, and nothing at all like two of them.  People usually say I look like someone because I have similar hair.  That's the case for two of these actresses.  Another has similar eyes and forehead.  The fourth I look nothing like, though I'd like to look like her.  My mother's friend who compared me to her must have needed glasses.  Really.

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Re: Do you get told you look like someone famous?

I've had people comment that I look like a "movie star", but I think it's mostly because of what I was wearing. Still, quite a compliment to me. Makes me feel I'm doing something right.

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Re: Do you get told you look like someone famous?

I have been told that I look like Andie MacDowell and Jill Goodacre back when they both wore their hair curly.  I don't see it, but I'm happy that other people do!

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Re: Do you get told you look like someone famous?

A few years back there was a TV sitcom called "Tool Time".   The actress on that show who played the mom was Patricia Richardson.  I heard over and over again how much I looked like her and even had similar mannerisms.  A friend even insisted on calling me "Jill" like her character.  Since the show is no longer on, I don't hear it anymore.