I posted yesterday about Reese Witherspoon and her daughter, Ava, in Paris yesterday ahead of Ava’s debut at the ball. Here they are, alongside Reese’s husband Jim Toth and their son, sightseeing in the city again in almost exactly the same outfit.
We talk often about how similar they look. How Ava’s face is exactly a combination of her parents’ faces. And with the way her hair is styled, and her height, she and Reese are almost the same.
I too have always looked a lot like my mother. Here’s an example – swipe to the next photo to see a side-by-side:
I had my hair cut pixie styles the year before these photos happened. My hair, then, at that stage, was growing out. I couldn’t help that it looked like the way my ma was wearing her hair. In fact, I tried to make it as different as I could. I had two strips coloured in the front – orange – for a while. Shortly after these pictures were taken I started wearing my hair in a middle part and that began the rest of the my middle part life. At some points in your life, you do not want to resemble your mother, not physically and not in personality. That said, my mother is not a celebrity (at least outside of her own world). And celebrity teens are certainly different from civilian teens in certain respects. Certain respects. Not all respects. Most teens have a “ugh, mom” or “ugh, dad” muscle that they’re always ready to flex, famous or not.
You know where I see that muscle in Ava Phillippe? The red lipstick. We can wear white shoes and black jeans and black coats and black hats, but my lips will be red today, and that’s how you’ll know it’s me and not my mom.
