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For some of us, looking at our moms is like looking into a future-mirror. (HI, FUTURE SELF!) We know exactly what our mouths, hair and hips will look like in 30 years and exactly where we'll gain water weight and varicose veins.But sometimes you see a mom and daughter who seem completely unrelated. As in -- how did that kid come from that mom? They don't appear to share even 2 percent of the same genetic makeup -- like Saffy and her mom Edina on "Absolutely Fabulous," for example.
Take a look at these mom-daughter pairs and tell us about your own mom in the comments!
Mismatched Celebrity Moms and Daughters*
Alexis & Martha Stewart: On her TV show Whatever, Martha, wild child Alexis pokes fun of old episodes of her mother's show. Wonder how uptight homemaker extraordinaire Martha is really taking that.
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Sharon & Kelly Osbourne: A no-BS businesswoman, Sharon has always come off as way more polished than her punky-but-shy daughter.
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Demi & Tallulah, Rumer and Scout Moore: Though her three girls have caught the acting bug, they're all much more of the tomboy variety than their couture loving mom.
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Courtney Love & Frances Bean Cobain: Frances has talked in interviews about being into a different music scene than both her parents', and says she's more girlie than her grunged-out mom. Plus, as far as we know, no teen drug issues.
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Jaid & Drew Barrymore: Drew's mom supposedly couldn't hack it in Hollywood, letting Drew use drugs and alcohol from a young age. We find it hard to believe that Drew, with her uber sunny personality, would let the same happen to her own daughter.
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Cher & Chastity Bono: Cher is over-the-top with her fashion, her larger than life personality and her huge stage persona. In contrast, her lesbian daughter with famous ex Sonny Bono is a low-key writer and LGBT activist.
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Jayne Mansfield & Mariska Hargitay: The Playboy pinup was a blonde bombshell who starred in fluffy melodramas before her untimely death. Her daughter is also an actress, but has found career longevity playing SVU cop Olivia Benson. And she did it wearing pants.
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Blythe Danner & Gwyneth Paltow: They're both actresses, classy and blonde. But Gwen married a rock star, making us think she's a little more boho than her straightlaced mom.
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Connie & Leighton Meester: US Weekly recently broke news that the always put together Meester was born to her mother in jail. Because she was smuggling pot into the U.S. Normal, yes?
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Janet Leigh & Jamie Lee Curtis: Janet started out poor while Jamie was born into the fame her mother earned. "She was green as you can be. I'm about as black as you can be. I'm jaded and time tested and all the things that my mother wasn't," Jamie Lee has said.
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Tuesday 05 May
By Kayce
My mom is completely outgoing and confident. She's always the center of attention and loves having people around her. I'm completely opposite! I'm generally the wallflower/people-watcher. Talking and confidence are not my forte.
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Tuesday 05 May
By Nancy
My mom and I never looked like we were related, we didn't even think alike. She was an overweight brunette, I am a thin blonde. She had huge boobs, mine were very small. She loved me but never understood me. She told me that if I hadn't been born to her, she wouldn't have believed I was her daughter. She was an over-achiever, I could care less. I could go on and on. She's been gone for 15 years, but I still miss her terribly.
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Tuesday 05 May
By Victoria
I loving the writing you dedicated to your mom very beautiful:-)
Tuesday 05 May
By Jacqueline
Most of these mother/daughter pairs go together well. Most look very similar and are in the same career area. I mean really: Very few exceptions.
Now my mother and I were so very different. Looks, outlook, personality, temperment and everything! I know she was my birth mother but still, it seemed unreal at times. I didn't feel close to her, she was very crazy and hated me. When I became a teen, she really turned on the distance and hate.
She wasn't meant to be a mother either, should never have seen the inside of a delivery room. A very self-centered, vindictive woman and I don't miss her. I never saw her anyway, after I happily left home. The last fifteen years, I saw her zero.
She died suddenly a couple years ago, still in her sixties but looking far older. She died angry too, verbally attacking someone just minutes before she died.
I hope I don't turn into her, that is my biggest fear. I love my child and would never think of treating him so poorly. I would give my life for him.
I have tried to live my life opposite the way she lived hers too. I don't think it is exactly true about daughers being just like their mothers, or we would have female clones everywhere. I mean there are times when genes stray very far from the course, for sure.
After she died, I had several dreams where there was a lady in my dream with me. We were standing beside a beautiful home that seemed to be near a large body of water. The home was elevated a bit like on a hill. She was very sweet and pretty, wearing a bathing suit. She and I were having a great time just hanging out together. She would always tell me before I woke up that she was my real mother and the other situation was a big mistake. I had this dream many times and we were always in the same place. Not sure what this all meant but tend to think it is the truth bleeding through and the mother I had in this life was a mistake, although she gave birth to me. That is where it began and ended. I have mixed feelings about my mother but we were not two peas in a pod by a long stretch.
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Tuesday 05 May
By TC
I wish I could see my mom this Mothers Day! She passed away in 1996. Be sure to tell your mom how much you love her and enjoy every moment you have together.
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Tuesday 05 May
By Trinity
My mother and I are very different physically but we are so much alike mentally.
My mom is five foot four, flat chested, and a size 6-8, with blonde hair (dyed that way but still blonde)
and then there is me about four inches taller, big chested well plain big everywhere about a size 18-20, with dark almost black hair....
My mother looks more like shes my sister than my mother and many people have said that too.
But our temperments are the only way you could really tell we were mother and daughter, shes very level headed but can be a real mean ass when she wants to be or if shes pushed to be, we both tend to care to much sometimes that it gets us hurt in the long run, we are both very perverted, i'm a tad bit worse than she is but she can sneak a few nasty thoughts in there that knock me out of the water lol...
My mom wasn't there much for me growing up but I ended up following in her footsteps and having a daughter before I graduated high school, and that is when she really stepped in and became my mother and my friend. I can gladly say now that my mom is my best friend, and my hero.
And now that I have three girls of my own I can only hope to be that to them, for their whole life, and not just the when they are becomming a mother themselves.
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Wednesday 06 May
By Mary Jones
I miss my mother. I wouldn't say she was a good mother, she was pretty abusive most of the time. But I would have to say it was her upbringing. I don't remember her ever saying "I love you" to any of us when we were children. In our later years I started saying it to her after visits and giving her a big hug and kiss and also when ending phone calls. Eventually she started responding back and I think it made her feel good. There is always hope. I wish things could have changed a long time ago. She died suddenly in 2002 at the young age of 67. There was so much left that we needed to share..............I love you Mom
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Wednesday 06 May
By Tori
I'm always surprised when people don't know about mother/daughter parings in h
Hollywood. Perhaps I'm biased about knowing Mariska Hargitay's mom, Jayne Mansfield because she's a distant relative, and I can't resist telling SVU fans that Mariska is my something-like fifth cousin. But a lot of people don't even know Debbie Reynolds is Carrie Fisher's mother.
Along the lines of me and my mother, we are extremely similar, so I don't have that difference factor. Though people say that my sister looks so much like my mother as well, but I really do not see the resemblance between them. I think my sister looks much more like my dad. And she is completely on her own as far as personality. Her intrests and goals are completely different from anyone else in our relation.
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Wednesday 06 May
By Sharon
It was not until I grew up and got my own apartment that I started understanding who my mother was and the extent of what I had learned from her and how much I was like her. As a young child I was stuck to her like glue. I remember having my kitchen set right next to our kitchen and she would always give me scraps to cook on my play stove and I would watch her and my sister shell peas (peas came in the pod in those days). As a pre-teen and teen I did not like her and was always rude and disrespectful to her. But when I became an adult and got my own apartment I began to understand her and who she was and why. She was a brilliant mathmititian and economist. She never used paper and pencil--she figured everything in her head and she knew how to spend an penny and pinch a penny. At a different time and in a different world she would easily have been a CPA/Economist. Although I did not get her mathmatics ability, I got everything else. She is now 82 and has been afflicted with dementia (Alzheimers) for probably the last 12 years. Ten years ago she was very hard to get along with because I believe she realized something was wrong with her but did not know what it was, people were always whispering about her an she knew it, she was always being told that she was repeating herself, she was very paranoid. Today she is almost totally consumed, BUT she does not know it so she is just as happy as a lark in her daily routine. The one good thing is that she has no physical ailments, she is in very good health. Of course we had to get her a live in nurse aid who takes her out everyday, cooks for her, does her household chores, helps her bathe and dress, does the laundry and handles her incontinence. I am just sorry that the times would not allow her to have a professional career, but she began working for the state when I was about 12/13and was able to amass a very decent estate to the point where she was able to give her seven children those 5, 8 and 10 thousand dollar down payments on our homes and do the thing she liked the most-travel. She travelled to Europe and through the US and the Caribbean several times. So, she might not know who I am the next time I see her, but I will know who she is--she is the last elder still alive. And I had a multitude of aunts, uncles and older cousins on both her side and my fathers side. These days I think about her passing away and I pray tht it does not happen for many years as long as she is in good health and seems like she wants to continue on. I feel that the day she dies a huge part of me will die. I love my mother.
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Saturday 09 May
By CC
If you are lucky enough to still have you Mom in your life, appreciate it and thank God you have one. Mine has been gone or 10 years and I am here to tell you that it is difficult without her.
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Sunday 10 May
By Mary
My mother has been gone since 1973. I miss her still. We would talk a lot on the phone. She was my best friend. I resembled her somewhat in facial features, but took after my father in built. They were 33, and 42, respectfully when I was born. I now have a daughter, and a son. They both favor me in looks. My daughter and I have been mistaken for sisters. We are best friends. My son, and I are close, too. My daughter takes after her father in personality. My son takes after both my husband, and I in personality. I live with my daughter, and her family since my husband passed away last May. I received flowers, and cards from her, and also from her boys. My son called today, and wished me a Happy Mother's Day. He is in the hospital. His boys called, and wished me a Happy Mother's Day, too. I wish all the mothers a happy day today.
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