My uncle is 6’1" and 250 lbs, and is a nurse. His twin sister is 5’2", 130 lbs, and sells steel.
The family that bought our house way back in 1977 had a pair of identical twin sons. They were identical in every way, including height, except for one thing: They were born 2 years apart.
I’ve known 2 sets of identical twin sisters, in which one was straight and the other was lesbian.
I knew 2 sisters who were as different in every way from each other as possible. Different heights, weights, hair color, face, everything. But they had the same birthday (3 years apart).
That’s creepy. I looked into this thread to describe a pair of twins who correspond precisely to your description. You ain’t form North Carolina, are you?
I went to school with 6 sets of twins in my grade. All of them looked enough alike except one set of sisters. Their facial features were close but one was in the “slow” classes and the other graduated 3rd. The one had short black hair and green eyes and the other long blonde hair and brown eyes. I think at some point they just decided they were not going to be alike anymore.
My brother’s mother-in-law is very petite and skinny as a rail. Her 5 siblings are massively huge people, vertically and horizontally. She looks almost…scared in family photos
My dragonboat coach, J, is a twin. His brother, I, also coaches dragon boat teams. They are identical twins, I think, or at the least they look nearly identical. Same height, same scrawny build, same curly hair. I wears glasses, which makes it much easier to tell them apart, and his voice is deeper and he seems to be a bit more serious in general than J. One of my team mates was telling me that they are basically inseparable, even though they are now (I think) in their mid 30s. Apparently they work together (or at least at the same company) and lived together until they got into longterm relationships with girlfriends. I watched them jog up to the docks last week, and they were moving in perfect sync… even their arm movements and the way they lifted their legs as they ran!
It’s interesting to watch them… I can’t imagine being that connected to a sibling!
The twins in our elementary school were nearly identical, but one was a girl and one a boy.
They already looked a lot alike, because they both were pale red heads with freckles and dimples.
But their idiot mother wanted them to appear even more like twins, so she gave them similar haircuts, shoes, jeans and tees. Fortunately, the boy never had to wear pink. I just wonder how old they were before they rebelled.
I used to know a couple of young ladies who were identical. Last time I saw them, one was getting a bit Rubinesque, the other was getting quite trim. The larger one had started a job as an architect, the skinny one had gotten a job as a…
There were identical twin girls in my Jr. High who were actually triplets because they had a fraternal brother. Their parents made a big effort to keep them as unique (sic) as possible though. The brother went to a different school than the girls and the two of them never had classes together. I only knew one of them because they were on different tracks. They also tended to dress differently enough they I could normally tell them apart.
There were brothers like that at my university. They lived in the same dorm room, were on the same intermural teams and took all of the same classes. An old girlfriend of mine started dating one of them a few years after she and I split. They had had some sort of rift right before she dated him over the girlfriend of the other one and were no longer speaking. I wonder how much they have diverged over the years.
My ex-wife’s sisters are fraternal twins. They don’t look that much alike. In fact both of them look more like my ex than each other if that makes any sense. One is a New Ager lesbian who jumps from relationship to relationship, loves hip hop and club music and is a high powered executive. The other is a Born Again Christian housewife who is in a 20+ year marriage with two kids. She listens to Amy Grant and Karen Carpenter. Both of them remind me of my ex in their own way but I’ll be damned if I can think of a thing that they have in common. How the first one believes in astrology in light of that evidence is beyond me.
In junior high, there was a pair of identical twin boys who were always chasing after a pair of identical twin girls. It was kind of amusing, because they were all assholes.
I know a pair of 94-year-old female twins. They live in the same house they were born in, neither has ever lived anywhere else. It’s a duplex; they live in one half, and nobody has ever lived in the other. Neither of them has ever married or had a job. I don’t know where their money comes from, but they’re not poor. And they still dress alike.
My Mom was a triplet, but one baby died in utero, so she and her surviving brother were twins. Mom was fair, freckled, redheaded, with green eyes. Her brother, my uncle, is dark, with olive skin, brown hair and brown eyes. His daughter, six days older than me, is a fair-skinned redhead with green eyes; I am olive-skinned with dark hair and eyes.
My younger sister is fair, blonde and blue-eyed. Her daughter is dark, like me. My daughter is fair, with blonde hair - though she has dark eyes.
We’ve got this weird criss-crossing sibling resemblence!
One of Middlebro’s oldest friends (they were in the same class, and in Spain that means 8 hours a day, for 14 years) can pass for his twin. We have a picture from a summer camp with Middlebro and two other “non-twins” of his… we know which one is which because it’s written on the back of the pic.
Same height, build, coloring; very very similar faces. So, having similar faces - the three from summer camp actually had the same model of glasses!
When Middlebro had his pic taken by a speed camera a few years back, we joked he could always claim it had been his friend Santi who was driving. He said it didn’t sound like that bad an idea, only “why would Santi be in my company car talking to my wife? He’s not married, so I can’t claim his wife looks like mine…”
My cousins are fraternal twins; only three and a half but the girl is dark haired/eyed/skinned like the women of the family and the boy is light haired/eyed/skinned like his father’s family. Same noses and eye shapes and mouths but the boy has mild Cerebral Palsy and the girl is fine. They just received a baby brother who is dark like the sister and has the same face shape as the brother did as an infant.
I have a set of identical twin aunts whose children got married! Since their mothers are identical, genetically they were half-brother and half-sister.
They have three normal children and lead a very normal life.
I was just reading an article the other day that said something like, the more opposite the parents’ genes are, the more likely the children will be a middle mix of the 2. For multi-racial couples, this means their children are likely to be a mix than look just like one or the other. It explained that we usually see multi-racial children as beautiful, because as a society we favor the middle range when it comes to features. Multi-racial children are less likely to get stuck with dad’s big nose or mom’s wide face. They will probably have a nice middle range of the 2.
This was interesting to me, because my husband and his brother are opposite in appearance. My husband has dark skin and brown eyes, and black hair and a medium build. He looks stereotypically Italian or Greek. His younger brother looks like the stereotypical Dutch boy, taller, bigger frame, blond hair blue eyes. Husband looks like his dad and brother looks like his mom. His parents are divorced now and not on good terms, and I joke that even their genes did not want anything to do with each other.
Now my husband and I have a boy who is a mix of us (I have blonde hair and blue eyes, and light skin like my husband’s mom.) Our son has lighter brown hair, brown eyes and medium skin and his facial features do seem to be a cross of ours. I am pregnant with our second boy so it will be interesting to see if that happens again.
Our pharmacist is a very outgoing, amiable guy. Good looking, too. One day, I was in to pick up some refills and he looked dour. The helper told me it was the usual guy’s brother. He looked exactly like him except for the never smiling puss.
In high school we had a family that had three kids. Older girl, Middle Brother, Younger sister. They had a last name like Smith or Brown ( very common.). I forget.
I never knew they were related because:
Older Girl: Black fro hair, very light skinned black. Halle Berry skin tone and prettiness. Very serious and academic. I sat next to her for one class and she would be the classic brainiac to my " WTF is this class all about" cluelessness.
Middle Brother: Medium dark skin with a fro and more ethnic looking features. Very athletic. ( He might have been a good student too, I don’t know. Diffenent class than me.)
Younger Sister: Lily white, wirey blond hair, blue eyes.
Mom is white. Dad is black.
When it clicked with me that they were all related ( at a school event, I saw them all sit together) I was gobsmacked for days at my stupidity of it all. And I remember, in my fresh haze of gobsmackness, how much crap their parents must have put up with because of the color of their skin and no wonder they sent their kids to a private school. Where the color of skin you have isn’t an issue. It was ARe you catholic enough
