# Is this really the Olsen Twins? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 29, 2011, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-the-olsen-twins/580229 "2011-04-29T23:35:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-the-olsen-twins/580229/21 "2011-04-30T01:44:37Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > I have to give them credit for their good money management skills. That is all too rare for child stars. However, those young women are not attractive in the least and never have been. I saw them as little troll dolls even when they were babies on Full House. I got into an argument with a person once back then over why they were on TV at all being so strange looking. He said they were beautiful and I strongly disagreed. They aren’t even real identical twins. All is not right in the House of Olsen. I hope they use the money to seek refuge and a happy existence from here. Thank you. I always thought they were ugly babies, and getting older hasn’t helped. I never understood why people thought they were cute and I would just get the standard, “there are no ugly babies!” retort from people. I was always like, “Well there are two right there…” ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-the-olsen-twins/580229/22 "2011-04-30T01:45:17Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > [YMMV.](http://bestcelebritypics.com/olsen-twins/Olsen-Twins-34.JPG.php) Wow. Those are good pictures. The twins need to look back at those and remember how to trim their eyebrows. ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-the-olsen-twins/580229/23 "2011-04-30T07:36:29Z")
Miss Lohan looks pretty delicious in that photo. Must have been a while ago. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-the-olsen-twins/580229/24 "2011-04-30T07:51:38Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > Aside from being a total creeper, Richardson is famous for his photography style that involves bright, BRIGHT lights and zero Photoshop. Ah. A man with no talent, somehow reaching the heights of success. I hate that. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-the-olsen-twins/580229/25 "2011-04-30T07:51:58Z")
Their money comes not from them but rather from their parents, (father in particular) was smart enough to use his girls as money making machines. The girls claim to have always liked working instead of being kids. They are going to be worth a billion dollars together so you’d only get about half a billion for one 🙂 They were ugly as kids and around 18 -20 they were nice looking, then they adopted this, “I take my clothes from the donation bin at the Salvation Army” look. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-the-olsen-twins/580229/26 "2011-04-30T09:58:51Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > I have no proof, but that looks suspiciously like a Terry Richardson photo. Aside from being a total creeper, Richardson is famous for his photography style that involves bright, BRIGHT lights and zero Photoshop. I think the pictures are usually meant to be a bit. . . not necessarily ugly, but not traditionally attractive either. But those are obviously made to look bad. That’s the problem with the OP’s picture. It looks like a normal picture. If this is his work, then he’s even failing at doing what he’s supposed to be doing. And, yes, they do look old. I’d agree with 50, but only with plastic surgery. Personally, to me they just look like drug addicts or anorexic (I know one was, but she’s supposedly better). And it’s not like I’m one of those people who gets the “too skinny” threads. Skinny and not all wrinkled up and leathery is fine. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-the-olsen-twins/580229/27 "2011-04-30T11:36:59Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > I have to give them credit for their good money management skills. That is all too rare for child stars. However, those young women are not attractive in the least and never have been. I saw them as little troll dolls even when they were babies on Full House. My youngest stepdaughter used to watch Full House all the time, and would get mad at me when I would ask how they got that monkey\* to talk. 😃 \*Although a more accurate term may have been “orangutan.” > [@Spoke](#): > > Judging by that cover, I’m more astonished at how quickly Tina Brown has turned Newsweek into People Magazine. Yeah unfortunately I wound up canceling my subscription this year after 30+ years. The magazine had already been dying the last couple years (about half as thick as it used to be, mostly pictures, not a whole lot of news, way too much fluff). Tina Brown just drove the stake through it’s heart. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-the-olsen-twins/580229/28 "2011-04-30T13:28:45Z")
They look a little tired and under the weather, and both could do with a few extra pounds (I’m not anti-skinny either, but some people’s frames don’t look good ultra-skinny - you know, the lollipop-head syndrome). But they look good otherwise. The one on the right, in particular, looks like a fashion model. Agreed about them not being cute babies. One of my nieces is an absolute stunner now, and is about the same age as the Olsens, but she was the ugliest baby I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-the-olsen-twins/580229/29 "2011-04-30T13:57:26Z")
They have that “I’m sick but I’m pretty” look, which is certainly sick but not very pretty. A square meal and a walk in the sunshine would do both of them a lot of good. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-the-olsen-twins/580229/30 "2011-04-30T14:15:47Z")
I think it’s the overdone lighting, plus they **appear** to have little to no makeup on aside from eye makeup. (I’m sure there’s at least a fair amount of foundation and concealer, which evens out the complexions, then the color got washed out by the lighting.) Even a little more visible blush added would make them look much more “healthy” in those photos. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-the-olsen-twins/580229/31 "2011-04-30T15:04:30Z")
> [@Spoke](#): > > I thought there might be a transition period during which they pretended to be a news magazine. Newsweek had a cover story on them all the way back in the mid to late 90s. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-the-olsen-twins/580229/32 "2011-04-30T17:06:24Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > Newsweek had a cover story on them all the way back in the mid to late 90s. Yeah, they had a bad stretch of being People Magazine back then, too. Under Jon Meacham, Newsweek had recently taken a stab at being a serious news magazine. Didn’t sell, I guess. So now Tina Brown has been brought in to tart it up, and here’s the result. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-the-olsen-twins/580229/33 "2011-04-30T19:03:59Z")
I’m with Shagnasty, too. Thought they were funny-looking (if not downright off-putting) on Full House. And as adolescents, their funny-looking turned into a really awkward, head-scratchingly girly scarecrow type of creepy. Now as adults, they’re older, but nothing’s changed… They will not age well at all. At least they’ll have their billions. I’ve never understood their (annoyingly so) fan following. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-the-olsen-twins/580229/34 "2011-04-30T19:06:14Z")
(I think they’re aliens o\_O) ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-the-olsen-twins/580229/35 "2011-04-30T19:54:11Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I haven’t heard of any child stars worth this much after growing up. Even Gary Coleman who made movies and had the tv show had very little money (he claimed his parents mismanaged it). > > The Olsen girls must really be skilled business people to parlay their tv millions into a billion. I haven’t read the Newsweek article, but my understanding is that the majority of their fortune comes from a line of branded clothing and other merchandise that is sold at Walmart. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-the-olsen-twins/580229/36 "2011-04-30T19:54:14Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > You **googled** at [Ask.com](http://Ask.com)? 😃 I googled “How old are the Olsen twins” and the best response I got was at [ask.com](http://ask.com) ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-the-olsen-twins/580229/37 "2011-04-30T20:44:30Z")
You people are crazy, they look like above average 20 some year old girls. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2011, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-the-olsen-twins/580229/38 "2011-05-01T08:12:18Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > You people are crazy, they look like above average 20 some year old girls. You apparently have seen a lot of ugly 20 year olds. That picture is aweful. Now, in real life, I’ve pretty much always thought they were pretty, at least after they got past the toddler years. I always thought they were cute kids, and that they grew up to be stunning adults. The exception is when they started looking anorexic, but they’ve mostly fixed that. Except in that photo. That’s probably another reason it doesn’t work for me. They’ve actually looked like that before, so you don’t immediately think it is stylized. I’m sure that, under similar conditions, most women their age would look equally as bad. But the problem is that we don’t normally experience those conditions, and don’t think of people as looking the way they do in them. Your picture of what someone looks like is how you most often see them. ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2011, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-the-olsen-twins/580229/39 "2011-05-01T09:30:27Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > You people are crazy, they look like above average 20 some year old girls. I’m with you. They look like very pretty girls going for the bohemian look. I suspect the haters just aren’t into that look. I think it’s hot. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2011, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-the-olsen-twins/580229/40 "2011-05-01T13:22:02Z")
> [@WarmNPrickly](#): > > I’m with you. They look like very pretty girls going for the bohemian look. I suspect the haters just aren’t into that look. I think it’s hot. I agree with this. It’s just two girls with their own fashion sense. The fact that they have parleyed that sense of style into billions says a lot. I don’t think they look even half of fifty. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-the-olsen-twins/580229.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-the-olsen-twins/580229.md?page=3)