Which parent do you resemble?

I always found it fascinating how sometimes people really take after one parent or the other, and sometimes they’re a perfect combination of both. Where I’m from we called it being “marked” by the parent you strongly resemble. And is it just me, or do daughters tend to take after their fathers, and sons after their mothers? Or maybe the similar features just pop out more when you see them on someone of the opposite gender.

Me and my mother look so much alike in the face that everyone comments on it. But I got my coloring from my father. My mother also swears up and down that me and my half-brother are eerily close to our fathers in personality. I say eerily because neither of us were raised by our bio-fathers, so it’s not like we modeled ourselves after them. Mom says she’ll be talking to both of us, and that just for a moment it’s like she’s talking to our fathers.

My brothers (3 of them) and I all closely resemble our father in the face. When you look a baby pictures of them and baby pictures of our father, it’s almost impossible to tell them apart. Mainly, though, it’s the eyes and the cheeks that give us away as related. Small eyes and chipmunk cheeks. Yeah.

I so strongly resemble my dad that I’ve had people I don’t even know come up to me and ask me if I’m my father’s son and my paternal (half) sister and both her daughters look like him as well, only with narrower feminine features.

I have my mom’s nose and base personality though.

Neither.

I have a Singaporean-Chinese mother and an blond-haired blue-eyed English father. I look somewhat Mediterranean. I don’t look at all Asian, except for my lack of body hair.

Facially, my dad, definitely – all three of us kids have his very distinctive bone structure.

I also inherited his sense of humor, but that may have been nurture rather than nature.

I have four siblings. Down the list:

oldest brother: definitely mother’s side. I have a picture of my great-grandfather when he was young. He looks like my eldest brother’s twin.

Second brother: no strong resemblance to either side

sister: more my mother’s side, but shares a lot of traits with third brother that nobody else has.

Third brother: more my dad’s side, but looks a lot like my sister.

Me: mostly my dad’s side, in looks and personality, but as always, some of my mother comes through.

Both my brother and I look very much like my father. Fortunately (I think), I look like a female version with his features, while my brother looks like his clone.

However, I have all my Mom’s mannerisms, quirks of speech, boby language, etc, which makes resemble her in more subtle ways. Most people think I “look like” my Mom, because I act like her, until they see me standing next to Dad.

Mom. Both my sister and I. I’m like a mini-Mom, but with red hair, and I’m taller.

Me and my siblings all look like our mother. Same eyes, same nose, same mouth. Several of our children take after her as well. People have come up to me on the street where they live and said, “You have to be Shirley’s son.”

I look like my mother, my sister looks like my dad. Go figure.

A few years ago I came across a picture of myself and got confused thinking I don’t remember ever being in a dinghy like that … it was my Mum of course ! There’s almost a 40 year age gap so I’d alw

:smack: Dang now how’d I do that ? Sorry. As I was saying

There’s almost a 40 year age gap so I’d always just smiled and nodded when people said how much I looked like her but in photos of Mum at my age *she is me * .

On that side of the family we females all seem to have the same nose - seen in profile, I say all there’s me, Mum and an aunt but they had a cousin with the same nose too.

My brother is a tad podgy and thanks to time spent playing rugby - as often as not in the middle of a scrum or melée - his nose isn’t what it once was but he tends towards my father. It’s the cheeky sparkle of faux innocence in their eyes when they’re winding you up.

Mannerisms wise the males mirror each other very obvioulsy but I think I share bits from both sides.

Both my sister and I look almost nothing like our father. I look a little like his father though. I think my father looks more like his mother’s side, while the genes he passed on to his kids more closely resemble his father’s side.

But we both look like our mother. The resemblance there is pretty obvious.

According to other people, I look like my father.

My brother is absolutely dead-on my father. When he was sixteen they pulled out some old photos of my dad and they even had the same haircut. It was truly, truly disturbing…

As for myself? I look more like my maternal uncle at this age, but I inherited my dad’s cheekbones. No one’s quite sure where I got my eyes, since no one else has bright green ones.

When I was younger I looked a lot like my dad’s side of the family. I didn’t think I looked anything like my mom…

until I saw us both in a home movie.

Wow! I looked so much like her it startled me!

I don’t remember myself at my daughter’s age ( she’s 1) but I see that she looks just like my baby pictures. It’s eerie!

I looked so much like my mother, that when we were the same height
(I would have been about 14), my grandmother couldn’t tell us apart.
We had the same haircut and similar glasses at the time.

The scary part is that we are not the same sex!

We look somewhat different now. For one thing, I have more grey
hair that she does. I guess I should be glad I still have hair at all.

I was adopted. Seeing as how I look very little like my mother, and have never met my father, I can only assume I look like him.

I have my mother’s eyes, and one other Uncle has curly hair. No one else in the family has curly hair.

Um…my personality is like my aunt’s. My temper is like another uncle’s.

I am truly a hodge-podge I guess!

I am a mirror image of my father. I’ve got a crooked tooth on the left, his is on the right. He’s got veins that stand out on his left leg, I’ve got them on the right. If we can’t tell if an old photo is of him or me as a child (It can be harder than you think telling old childhood photos apart, especially when they were taken on the the same farm with the same camera) we look for the tooth.

My sister and I (a girl, in case you didn’t know) both take after our dad in hair-eye color and general looks, while my brother takes after my mom…and his daughters looks more like him than their mom, but I think they look a bit like me, too.

My kids, boy and girl, have many of their dad’s features…body type, nose…but they both have my hair and eyes, and everyone tells us we look alike, even though my nose is turned up and theirs are classically straight. But I have confused many of my daughter’s and my pictures. In fact, the older she gets, the more she looks like me at that age. And my son is now way taller than his dad…about 7 inches taller, in fact.