Do You Look Like Someone Famous?
by Heather Weidner
I always wanted to have a famous “twin” or a doppelganger. In the fourth grade, my mom convinced me to have my hair cut short. Much to my chagrin, if I had a red dress, I could have passed for Annie. When the movie came out, I cannot tell you how many times someone asked me if I knew that I looked like the famous orphan.
The popular teacher is described as funny and mysterious. She has wild red hair that she wears in a messy bun, and her outfits always match her lesson plan. She has a pet lizard named Liz, a cat named Fred, and her school bus shape shifts for all kinds of wild rides.
I ordered my outfit (complete with dress, school bus, and a stuffed Liz) online, and I’m ready for this year’s Halloween costume contest at the day gig. So, I think I finally found my famous twin.
Do you look like anyone famous?
Through
the years, Heather Weidner has been a cop’s kid, technical writer, editor,
college professor, software tester, and IT manager. She writes the Pearly Girls
Mysteries, the Delanie Fitzgerald Mysteries, The Jules Keene Glamping
Mysteries, and The Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mysteries. She blogs regularly
with the Writers Who Kill.
Her
short stories appear in the Virginia is
for Mysteries series, 50 Shades of
Cabernet, Deadly Southern Charm,
Murder by the Glass, First Comes Love, Then Comes Murder, and Crime in the Old Dominion, and
she has non-fiction pieces in Promophobia and The Secret Ingredient: A Mystery Writers’ Cookbook.
Originally
from Virginia Beach, Heather has been a mystery fan since Scooby-Doo and Nancy
Drew. She lives in Central Virginia with her husband and two crazy dogs.
I used to get mistaken for Shelley Long of Cheers fame.
ReplyDeleteOh, how fun!
DeleteI can see that, Annette!
DeleteUnfortunately or fortunately, I don't resemble anyone famous. However, I do have some stories about having such a common name.
ReplyDeleteAny fun mix ups?
DeleteThat’s hysterical and I love that you leaned in with a Halloween costume. In younger, blonder, thinner days, I was often mistaken for Princess Diana. I never saw the resemblance, but others did. Including a few paparazzi. Let me tell you, those folks are scary!
ReplyDeleteHow cool is that! Paparazzi!
DeleteMy granddaughters LOVE Magic School Bus. Bonus: Mrs. Frizzle was voiced by Lily Tomlin! I used to get Valerie Bertinelli lookalike comments a lot...
ReplyDeleteI had never watched the Magic School Bus. But I'm a fan now.
DeleteI'm so common a face and body type that I'm often taken as someone's doppelgänger. Speaking of Annie, when I met my husband, he had a then 5 and 7 year old. The 7 year old red-head had just had her hair cut short and with her slight spread of freckles and the shade of her hair, she looked exactly like Annie. Until her hair grew out, she was either mortified or politely handling the comparison. BTW, she's never had short hair again.
ReplyDeleteI don't look like anyone famous, but there must be someone else who looks like me on Hatteras Island. Everyone says I look like so and so, who I don't know. I even had a woman start a long conversation with me outside a local grocery. She stopped after the first long sentence and said, "Oh, you're not so and so!" It's a bit unnerving!
ReplyDeleteCute post, Heather. Having a doppelgänger can be a curse. I was once standing at a traffic light close to where I worked and a man said and I gave a half hello trying not to be rude, but not wanting to be friendly to a stranger. He said, “You were a lot friendlier last night.” I assured him that I had not seen him last night as I had been at night class. I couldn’t convince him of that. Well, whoever my doppelgänger was, I certainly hope she was behaving herself.
ReplyDeleteOh, my. You have to put that in a book or a story!
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ReplyDeleteI used to get told that I look like Secretary of State Madeline Albright. Sorry, but I can’t say I was thrilled with a comparison.
Someone at the library thought I looked like Roger Ebert. Huh? He hastened to say it was because of the glasses. Again, huh?
ReplyDeleteHe'd actually thought it was a compliment, and because he was a nice guy, I thanked him.
DeleteOh, my. It had to have been the glasses.
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