A Smith by any other name…
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
I was at Trader Joe’s yesterday waiting in line when a worker named Dave came up to me and announced—loudly—that he had no idea Angelina Jolie shopped at TJ’s. I was mortified. This isn’t the first time I’ve heard the comparison. I once had an OBGYN tell me that my lips looked just like Angelina’s—and yes, it did beg the question, “which lips?,” as I had already assumed the position.
Truth be told, I don’t really look like Angelina Jolie. In fact, the only thing we have in common are our lips. We both have really fat, bee-stung pouts. So, what’s up you ask? Well, an article that appeared on asap may hold the answer:
Researchers at Miami University say some names are commonly associated with certain facial features, and that remembering others’ names has something to do with how close they match our preconceptions about how people with that label appear.
I guess the name “Kathy” doesn’t exactly evoke images of a hot, bi-curious, luscious-lipped movie star in the same way “Angelina” does.
You can read the entire piece here.
So, who do you look like?
Ed note: Kathie writes about her Ob-Gyn telling her she looks like Angelina here.
Wah, wah, it’s so mortifying how I look just like the hottest woman in the world. Insert line about the world’s smallest violin here….
A friend’s dad once told me (I was in high school) that I looked like “a skinny Bette Midler.” He was a big show-tunes kind of guy, so I think he meant it as a compliment, or at least not not a compliment.
Hmm.
I’ve been told I look Kennedy-esque (well, once, in Maine, by a pretty old lady). But still.
Jamie Kennedy?
In middle school I was often told I looked like Christina Ricci, this caused one of my friends’ older brother to constantly refer to me as Casper.
I get told I look like Alexis Bledel all the time these days.
Actually, over the years I’ve had many celebrity comparisons given to me; those two were/are the most common though.