if I were blonde
At lunch on Friday, I sat next to a young woman from Milwaukee at a software conference we were attending. After we had been talking and eating for quite a while, she suddenly turned to me and said, “Has anyone ever told you that you look exactly like Reese Witherspoon?”
I told her that yes, in fact, several people have mentioned that I resemble her. The woman went on to say that if I dyed my hair blonde, I’d be a dead ringer for Reese. That might be stretching it a bit… but I guess now I know what I’d look like as a blonde.
There’s an interesting website called MyHeritage where you can upload a photo and see which celebrities you resemble. The face recognition technology compares your face to more than 4000 celebrity faces in their database. This evening I uploaded a variety of photos from the past few years, and the results were surprisingly consistent.
Apparently even MyHeritage thinks I resemble Reese Witherspoon… as well as Christie Brinkley, Maria Sharapova, Patsy Cline, Oprah Winfrey, Bob Hope, and many others, depending on the picture.
It’s an excellent tool for procrastination…
Sara said,
Monday, June 4, 2007 at 1:27 pm
I did this myself, and it told me what someone told me once, that I look like Drew Barrymore.
heidi said,
Monday, June 4, 2007 at 6:54 pm
Huh…Sara’s comment is funny because I think YOU look like Drew Barrymore (at least in the movie “The Wedding Singer”) Seriously, every time I watch that movie, I think of you. But I don’t know what she looks like in other movies…I know stage make up can do a lot to change a person’s face.
r8chel said,
Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 11:05 pm
I had never seen The Wedding Singer, but since you mentioned it, I checked it out of the library the other night and watched it. I don’t mind if people think I look like Drew Barrymore.
Jess said,
Tuesday, June 19, 2007 at 2:32 am
I love that website.