Doppelgänger Smoppelgänger

February 23, 2010
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As many Facebookers so eloquently put it-not every brunette looks like Kate Beckinsale. Natch.

A couple of weeks back Facebook decided to make it Doppelgänger week. Grr. I didn’t participate.

Reason? I always get frustrated with these sorts of things because my girlfriends and sisters get compared to really gorgeous celebrities.

Like these:

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And, me? Well, here’s who I’ve been told I look like:

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So, lemme get this straight … an 8-year old precocious tomboy with the old-lady name of Ramona, a celebrity who often looks as if she just finished sucking on a lemon, and the mousy daughter on Life Goes On.

Awesome.

But, celebrity analysis always wants to put me in a different category (err nationality) all together with these as my top matches.

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I give you Lucy Lui and Lisa Ling … um gorge, but I’m not Chinese-American. Although, admittedly I get mistaken for other nationalities often–Chinese being the most common, as well as, anywhere in the Pacific Island region. Post beach vacation I apparently look like a native from Guam.

My twin sister did a fellowship in China several years back and when she showed her flatmates a picture of our family the first response was her friend pointing at me saying, “She one of us.” Screw you Scottish ancestry. You ask, “Am I Chinese?”  “Why yes, yes, I am.” But apparently one with a penchant for tart citrus and 10-speed bicycles.

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4 Responses to “Doppelgänger Smoppelgänger”

  1. anonymous in B'more Says:
    February 23rd, 2010 at 6:20 am

    Dana, no worries. I can’t tell you how many people come up to me & ask, “Are you so and so’s brother?” “No,” I reply. “Are you sure?”, they ask, “You look just like him.” I am certain but countless people over the years swear I am someone they know, which leads me to believe I look like everybody else (even with a mustache the phenomenon couldn’t be halted). The only celebrity I have ever been compared to is some dude on the 90’s version of Star Trek. Woohoo :{ Live long and prosper (sounds very Eastern philosophy…you understand, of course :)

  2. bee at the beach Says:
    February 23rd, 2010 at 9:07 am

    Oh, this made me laugh this morning! I also declined to take part in the facebook doppelganger event for similar reasons…I’ve only ever been told that I look like Ferris Bueller’s twin sister or Delta Burke when she won Miss Florida. Neither one is necessarily aweful, but neither one is Ashley Judd either.

  3. Augusta Says:
    February 25th, 2010 at 8:30 am

    I feel your pain! My 5′ 10″ blonde “little” sister gets told she looks like Cameron Diaz all the time. The celebrity people tell me I most look like? Miley Cyrus. Fabulous.

  4. Angie Says:
    March 4th, 2010 at 8:10 am

    Hey! I think Ramona is cute! =) I didn’t participate either. I always get Meryl Streep and Mary Louise Masterson. What?

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