Friday, November 14, 2008

My Identity Crisis

Somewhere on my crazy roadtrip through the blogsphere I saw a reference to this website where you upload a picture and it uses face recognition software to scan it and match it to celebrities that look like you. Since the house was spotless, the dinner was made, the bills were paid, and the laundry was done, I decided to spend some free time on this site.

Big mistake.

Here's the first picture I entered and the celebrities who could apparently play me in my Lifetime movie.

Now, in case you are like me and clueless about who Tata Young is, she is a Thai American singer, model and actress. Well, I like that model part. That must be what the recognition software saw that made her a 74% match for me. I am sure my German and Scottish ancestors are wondering about the Thai part, but I do love Thai food, so maybe that is part of it.

Let's look further. Courtney Thorne-Smith - not bad. Sally Field - OK. Carl Sagan.

Carl Sagan? 61% of Carl Sagan's face is like mine? Holy cow. I need to quit being so stingy and buy some better face products. And less testosterone. I must have that out the wazoo because look at the next guy - David Beckham. 53% Now I know millions of people think he is hot but they are women. I'm pretty sure my husband does not want his wife to look like Carl or David.

Heidi Klum? Yeah, right. They just threw that in there so I wouldn't kill anybody racing to the plastic surgeon's office after they dropped Carl and David on me.

So, I decided I must have chosen a bad photograph. I dug around, found another one, and took a little trip back.

Big mistake.


Now I most match Billy Zane. And while I am sure he is a fine actor and appealing to lots of women, again, this doesn't work for me. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

Gina Lollobrigida - now that's more like it. Must have been that sexy toss of the head I was doing.

Kai Hansen. Kai Hansen? Who in the world. Off to Wikipedia where I learn that 60% of my face is exactly like a "power metal guitarist" who founded the world famous band, Helloween. Excellent. All my little girl dreams are coming true.

Look further. In this photo I not only look like Billy and Kai, I look like Juan Carlos Ferrero, Goran Visnjic (love him - don't want to look like him) and Sam Neill.

Oh yeah, and Beyonce. Pretty sure she is suing that site even as we speak.

So, to sum up. I have 16 celebrity lookalikes and 7 of them are men.

If you need me, I'll be at a Botox party and then I'm off to the Estee Lauder counter.

42 comments:

Braja said...

I did the same thing and it was bizarre. But I can't figure out how you got that wildly impressive circular photo mosaic thing happening. I'm totally jealous. What gives??!!

Heather said...

Oh please, please, pretty please tell me the link to this site!

I will do it and I *guarantee* you I'll get worse (better?) matches!

This is coming from the chick who was mistaken for Bette Midler TWICE on separate occasions in the 80s. Yeah. I was 17 at the time, too.

Seriously, I promise you I'll get way more random matches. I mean, at least all your matches are good looking people!

Heather said...

Oh never mind, I just super-duper squinted at the bottom of your pictures and read the site name.

Off to scrounge up some pics of moi to do this! HEE!

Baby Tunnel Exodus said...

I needed that laugh desperately today! And it's only 7:30! BUT, I'm not laughing At you, no no, With you. Excellent. Bwaaaahahahaha! I just love you for this one. And cheer up, they only matched you to those guys because they had nice big GIRLY smiles & high cheekbones.

Blessings, Whitney

Maggie said...

Ha ha!! I tried this once, too. And a couple of men showed up on mine as well. =S

Two of my matches were Cameron Diaz and Julia Roberts, much improvement from the guys that came up! LOL

Merrily Down the Stream said...

I am all over this even though house was spotless, the dinner is NOT made, the bills are NOT paid, and the laundry is NOT done. I like to do surfing in lieu of actual work. Hmmmmmm...

Baby Tunnel Exodus said...

PS, Seriously??? You had the house clean, dishes done with Free time left over?

:o) Whitney

Braja said...

Oh I just got it! And as predicted, they said Glenn Close. Man, I've had that since she did that freakzoid movie in the 80s. Thing is it's true. I really do look like her, even I admit. Could be worse. It also said I look like Tim Roth...WTF???!?!? Oh, and Princess Grace. Of course darling. Royalty. Duh...

Weaselmomma said...

Maybe there is a local Mary Kay lady you can talk to?
All those celebs should be proud to look like you.

Aunt LoLo said...

The last time I did that thing, I came up as a Condoleeza Rice look alike.

Umm...yeah. Must be my fabulous teeth.

Congratulations? Maybe you can convince David and Posh you're a long lost relative and they'll let you live in their doll house back in jolly ol' England!

Erin, Nick and Merrick said...

OMG!!!!!!
I am dying laughing!!! That is the funniest thing I have read in a long time!!!! Laughing WITH you!!

The Happy Mom said...

*Raising hand*

that was me, I posted that on my blog and I'm glad someone else found it as entertaining as me. :)

I was not as brave as you though to show my celeb lookalikes. It's more fun to use pictures of other people, trust me! It said my mother-in-law was a lookalike of Jason Alexander (George from Seinfeld)LOL!! :)

TammyJ said...

Ron did mine ... In my pics when I was over 250lbs I looked most like Drew Barrymore. I don't know what that says about her but I didn't mind the reference...In the pic he took of me this morning I look like all guys .. what is that about..I will meet ya at the estee lauder counter at noon.. lol

TammyJ

Threeboys1mommy said...

Oh Debs I'd definitely pick Sally Fields for the movie, she's the best actor on there (man or woman)

They also have a feature where you upload a photo of you, your husband and your child and the meter tells you who your child looks like the most... although mine always pointed towards the milk man.

Ron said...

ok .. now I hate ya .. my least favorite country music singer is Travis Tritt .. and every pic of me I use has him as one of the lookalikes

Grrrrrrr

Pseudonymous High School Teacher said...

That looks like fun, but I'm going to be late for work if I get started, so looks like a weekend thingy. Congrats on the Gina match.

Becky said...

I looked like Albert Einstein. I'm pretty sure it was the hair that did me in.

Heather said...

Psssst... I did it - it's up on my blog right now.

So, please step away from the Botox, madame! Look at my results and feel MUCH better, hee!

:D

Rachel@just another day in paradise said...

lol started reading, thought "that might be cool," then decided I did not want to know that John Travolta and Will Smith would be my best matches. . .ok, not Will Smith with my ghostly white complexion. how about Casper? nah, I'll stick to not kowing!

Lorrie Veasey said...

OMGAWD YOU MEAN YOU ARE NOT A RED HEAD IN REAL LIFE????????????????

Next you're gonna tell me you don't sit around in your 1940s lingerie to blog.

Stacy said...

Hey, it could be worse. I did it and ALL of mine were guys. I mean come on I know I'm not really a girly girl but I don't think I look like a guy...LOL.

jubilee said...

I, too, tried this site and it came up all men. Mostly men of German descent. Nothing wrong with that generally speaking, but the jaw lines! ugh! The the eyes! ugh! The broad foreheads! ugh!

I gave up in disgust and refused to make a post out of it. Should have posted about it anyway and had a good laugh over it.

Frugal Finds said...

Very funny!! I think I will try this too!!

Anglophile Football Fanatic said...

I think I might've cried over Carl Sagan. I am terrified of who these things would come up with for me, so I've avoided them. You're brave.

Jannie said...

OMG, totally hilarious. I am so trying out that link tonight.

THANK YOU, I'll have my kid try it too, she'll get a big kick out of it I bet.

Leslie said...

See what I mean Debbie...clever...you ooze clever. I can't quit chuckling!!!

Adlibby said...

Ouch! LOL.

Supermom said...

I just did this out of curiosity since you posted about it. Give me a sec and I'll put it on my blog.

Michelle :)

Natalie said...

I had like 4 asian actress matches. I'm portuguese...with big bug eyes...


My daughter had Brad Pitt as one of her matches where in real life she gets the Angelina Jolie comparisons.

Go figure, lol!

D... said...

I did this awhile back. Sadly, I look like a lot of men too. I can't remember which ones because I was too traumatized and vowed never to talk about it. And yet here I am....

Spaceofgrace said...

That is sooooooo funny. Thanks for stopping by my blog. I wanted to visit earlier but I've been sick. Boohoo. I love your blog and will be back :-)

Bubba's Sis said...

If you look like David Beckham or Goran Visnjic, I want to meet you! Hubba hubba!

meg said...

I did one of those a couple years back & got Margaret Thatcher & some soocer player I'd never heard of; I'm afraid to see what the march of time has done to my matches :-S

Mo said...

Oh my goodness, this is just way too funny. I wonder if Beyonce knows that her face is so closely linked to Kai Hansen's....

Now you've just made me way too curious. I may go try this one out myself :)

jennyonthespot said...

If it makes you feel any better... when I did that one (granted I only got 1 guy, not 7...) It was Geronimo.

GERONIMO!

*weeping*

Kristina P. said...

I've seen your little profile all over, which is adorable, but your comment on Melanie J's blog prompted me to finally click over, and you're adorable!

I will be back.

thediaperdiaries said...

I did this too and got some 50 year old Hispanic woman. I am a 30 ish year old woman who is very Caucasian. And I also got a few men so don't feel so bad. Clearly a flawed system.

Laura said...

You ARE a dead ringer for Heidi Klum. AND David Beckham. Wierdm huh?

Debra W said...

Oh you are a brave woman. I will have to wait until I am no longer PMSing to try this so that I don't end up drowning in a puddle of tears!(or downing excessive amounts of chocolate!)

Hugs,
Debbie

Debra W said...

I forgot to tell you that you have a very lovely smile!

Hugs again,
Deb

Scary Mommy said...

This is cracking me up!!! I did it once and it came up with Bon Jovi. I spent way too long dwelling on it.

binks said...

Hahahahaha! I tried the one where it matches your kid to the parents and tells you which parent the child looks like. I put my son, myself and my husband and other various men. EVERY time it said my son looks more like his "father". I was cracking up - such bullshit!