LJ Idol: Week Twelve: The Sincerest Form of Flattery

[ckocher]

“Hey, you know who you look like?”

Those words always make me very uncomfortable because I really don’t know what’s coming next. I’ve heard:

“You look like that girl who played Laura Ingalls on Little House!” I heard that when I was seven and it made me absolutely giddy.

“You look just like … who was it? Oh yeah! Kathy Bates!” That came when I

Comments

[agirlnamedluna]

I know what you mean. I look a LOT like my father, almost nothing like my mother. And yeah, it's not flattering either, he looked good, certainly, but the implications behind it, yeah. I feel you on that.

[cheshire23]

I can understand this, though fortunately my mother and I get along OK. But I've been literally mistaken for my mother, which...not so flattering. :P

[basric]

A wonderful story. And there are those of us who understand completely. Sometimes sitting at my dressing table my hair pulled up on my head as I get ready to cream my makeup away I catch a glimpse of my mother in my face and have to slow my heart down and remind myself I am not that monster even if as I age I am beginning to see signs of one looking like herr in my face.

[myrna_bird]

I resemble my mother's side of the family. My sister tends more our dad's side. Now that I am a grammy myself, I look in the mirror and see My Grammy ( mother's side) and that is a great thing because I loved her a lot!

[lawchicky]

I get mistaken for my mom all the time and vice versa.