Gee, you look like…

We’ve all heard it before. Wow, you look just like your mother/father at your age. Gee, you have your grandfather’s nose. Growing up I didn’t look like anyone in my family, unless Shirley Temple is a long lost cousin. When I got glasses at age 11, I started resembling my maternal aunt. I didn’t mind, since I was doing better than my brother was - he got Grandma’s cankles.

So for the past ten plus years, I’ve been used to the resemblance, getting asked if we were sisters, or in the case of that psychic, thinking a photo of her was one of me (so much for those abilities). Recently one of my friends introduced me to a program called Celebrity Face Recognition. Basically, you upload a photo of yourself into the program and it calculates how much you look like their database of celebrities.

I thought I was doing pretty well. My red-headed self resembled Kate Bosworth, not bad, I’ll accept that. My brunette self also resembled Kate Bosworth. So, going through my many hair colours, I tried the blonde me. According to their software, the blonde me resembles Nakama Yukie. That’s alright, I’ve never heard of her either. Apparently the blonde haired angel that is me most strongly looks like a Japanese actress.

Then again the same program says I also look like a young Carson Daley, Leonardo Di Caprio and a very young Elizabeth Taylor, so you can tell how serious I’m taking this.

But now I think I’ve reached the top of my recognition. Everyone knows about avatars. They are the little pictures that you can have one MSN or forums etc. Even on facebook, you have an avatar. Anyway, my current avatar is a picture of me:

This is what is currently showing to people who belong to NZPWI. That’s right people, that’s me. Some people comment on people’s avatars. Most seem to leave mine alone…except for one person.

My lovely friend Primal (who will no doubt read this in the next week) asked if my avatar was of Christine Young. Now me being so sweet and innocent (shut it), I didn’t have any idea who Christine Young was. I soon found out. (and shame on any of you who knows who she is!)

Here is her picture:

Nice body, nice face. Not too bad, until you go into her website. Since this is a family show, I can’t show any of those pictures. Needless to say I was a little shocked since I didn’t think that anyone who apparently resembles Carson Daley would ever be compared to a porn star. Yes, that’s right. I resemble a 19 year old French-Canadian porn star.

Please note that I’m not complaining about this comparison. In fact, since I’ve been in awe of Primal for years, it’s quite a complement that he even noticed. Although the fact that he knows what she looks like is a bit worrying. 

It’s also given me something to work on. Now that I have her face, I want to have her body…damn, guess it’s back to the gym for me.

Should also point out that the original posting that got his attention was about the supposed reunion of New Kids On The Block! Guess you never know some people…

~ by lulupop on Wednesday, January 30, 2008.