Unflattering comparisons

BlunderWoman

BlunderWoman

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Do you ever have someone compare you to some celebrity and tell you you're just like that person & you are NOTHING AT ALL LIKE THAT PERSON?

One of my sisters says I'm just like Karen Walker ( the dark haired woman on Will and Grace). The first time she said that I was really shocked. I'm nothing like Karen Walker. Too weird.

Do you get unfavorably compared to anyone?

 

SifuPhil said:
Many people compare me to the fictional Dr. Hannibal Lechtor, but that's TOTALLY unfair - we have two different eye colors! :(
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Uhmnn.. I think Hannibal is very sexy. I must be demented.

 

My type or personality has never been compared to a celeb (because I'm one of a kind :playful:), but I've been told I look like a few. When I was younger, it was Jamie Lee Curtis. When I was in my 30s, it was Helen Reddy. In my 40s, Liza Minelli. Most recently I hear "Ellen Degenerous, but with dark eyes". None of those women are beauties, imo, but I like my face a lot, so it doesn't matter. Interesting to me is how much I've obviously changed over the years.
 
I learned early on never to tell anyone they look like someone else. The person almost never sees the comparison as flattering, no matter how good looking I think the person I compared them to is. :confused:
 
BlunderWoman, is it your voice, your looks or personality that made your sister make the comparison? I don't think Hannibal Lector looks sexy but I think the actor Anthony Hopkins does. Lon, Leslie Neilsen has died so hopefully people aren't still asking you for his autograph. :) You do look a bit like he did though.

No one has ever compared me to any celebrity. People at church years ago, used to come up to me and call me Mickey. They said I looked like a gal named Mickey from Bakersfield. One day she was visiting our church and I saw her and I wasn't impressed.

I just remembered my daughter told me about a month ago that she and her husband were watching something British and thought the lady on there reminded them of me. I will have to ask her what it was and then edit here.


OK, I asked her just now and she said Sue Perkins. I looked at some of her videos for a few minutes. I don't wear my hair that short and when she was on a talk show she was sitting in (my opinion) an unladylike fashion, which I don't do. I don't speak with a British accent and I am too claustrophobic to go down in the sewers with a camera crew. We both wear glasses though.
 
I was once compared to Bill Parcels, wish I had his money, he can have the fame. But on the other hand my father closely resembled John Wayne, same height & weight, broke horses, wore Stetsons & boots. He created a stir in Germany & elsewhere in Europe while on a tour, people mobbed him wanting his autograph. Even I thought he looked like him.
 
I just realized you said unflattering, so I guess never mind, except for the one time some guy yelled out Whoopi. LOL!

Back in the day, it was always Clair Huxtable, but I thought that was more about demeanor, even by youngest brother always said I reminded him of the character back then, but a few years ago, a nurse, who was hooking me up for a surgical procedure, said, the same, that I reminded her of Clair Huxtable. :dunno: But, once or twice, now hat I've expanded in body size, I will get Oprah. I think it's because these are basically the most notable people of color some in this area are familiar with. But, generally, not many unfavorable comparisons. Wait, there was that one time someone mistook me for miss piggy. :D
 
Linda said:
BlunderWoman, is it your voice, your looks or personality that made your sister make the comparison?
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The personality I'm pretty sure. That particular sister has been jealous of me my entire life. Why?... I have no earthly idea. She has always had very insulting or unflattering things to say about me. until the last few years when I think she has finally realized I'm the only family she has that's really there for her. Our other sister doesn't like her and won't have anything to do with her. It's so odd she compared me to that woman because that woman is a pill popping booze hound & I have never been a pill popper and might drink 3 or 4 times a year at the most. Plus that woman is very outspoken with insults & I'm not..so I don't get it. She has always viewed me in ways I think are very unrealistic and not like me at all.
 
AprilT said:
I just realized you said unflattering, so I guess never mind, except for the one time some guy yelled out Whoopi. LOL!

Back in the day, it was always Clair Huxtable, but I thought that was more about demeanor, even by youngest brother always said I reminded him of the character back then, but a few years ago, a nurse, who was hooking me up for a surgical procedure, said, the same, that I reminded her of Clair Huxtable. :dunno: But, once or twice, now hat I've expanded in body size, I will get Oprah. I think it's because these are basically the most notable people of color some in this area are familiar with. But, generally, not many unfavorable comparisons. Wait, there was that one time someone mistook me for miss piggy. :D
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Maybe it's your voice. Clair Huxtable had a very pleasant voice
 
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AprilT, I always thought Clair Huxtable was pretty, very graceful and quite a lady.

Blunderwoman, obviously your sister has some kind of a problem with herself and is just trying to make you feel bad. It's hard to ignore people like that but that's probably what you should do.
 
Linda said:
AprilT, I always thought Clair Huxtable was pretty, very graceful and quite a lady.

Blunderwoman, obviously your sister has some kind of a problem with herself and is just trying to make you feel bad. It's hard to ignore people like that but that's probably what you should do.
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I agree, I thought it a compliment, I was in my 20's when I was getting those comparisons it was the early 80's. Honestly, I was more surprised to have had that nurse say it some 30 years more than 60 lbs later. :magnify: Must be the jowls, still the same adorable cheeks. :D We do have the similar voice pattern and cheek structure. I went to look at an old video, though, I can't say we look alike, there are some similarities in the way we talk to people even use of facial moment at times, especially when someone says something we think sounds stupid. LOL! I guess I get it now after looking at the video and thinking back on how ladylike I once was. Oh well, lady like isn't a description I wan't used to describe me ever again it didn't serve me well back in the day.
 
AprilT said:
I just realized you said unflattering, so I guess never mind, except for the one time some guy yelled out Whoopi. LOL!

Back in the day, it was always Clair Huxtable, but I thought that was more about demeanor, even by youngest brother always said I reminded him of the character back then, but a few years ago, a nurse, who was hooking me up for a surgical procedure, said, the same, that I reminded her of Clair Huxtable. :dunno: But, once or twice, now hat I've expanded in body size, I will get Oprah. I think it's because these are basically the most notable people of color some in this area are familiar with. But, generally, not many unfavorable comparisons. Wait, there was that one time someone mistook me for miss piggy. :D
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Felicia Richard ain't bad, April! I'd be happy with that. If I were a woman and a person of color that is.
 

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