25 Amazing Photos of Celebrities and Their Famous Parents Who Look Almost Identical at the Same Age

Many people these days, long to look like the celebs they admire most, but some are lucky enough to be blessed with the celeb’s beautiful genes! Most of the celebs on this list look exactly like their famous dad or mom looked at the same age! It’s freaky, to say the least.

It’s amazing to see how genes work between parents and their offsprings. And it doesn’t always work on the same sex. Sometimes father and daughter look the same (Look for Mick Jagger and his daughter), and sometimes a son has his mother’s eyes. Genealogy is truly fascinating. Let’s start the list and be wowed...

1. Dhani Harrison and George Harrison in Their 20s

2. Ava Elizabeth Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon at Age 18

3. Alexander Skarsgård and Stellan Skarsgård at Their 30s

4. Ziggy Marley and Bob Marley at Age 35

5. Damon Wayans Jr. and Damon Wayans at Age 30

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Here’s What 14 Fitness Stars of the ’80s Look Like Now

In the 1980s, fitness hit the mainstream. With the help of stars like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jane Fonda, and of course, Richard Simmons, everyone wanted to work their way to a better body during the ’80s. Now it’s been a few decades since those fitness stars inspired us to be our better selves. What are they up to today? Have they stayed in shape after all these years? Read on to find out!

1. Jane Fonda

Before VCRs came out in the 1980s, there was no easy way for people to watch something whenever they wanted at home. However, with VCRs came the home video revolution, and Jane Fonda used it to get her workout tapes into seemingly every home in America. The Jane Fonda Workout sold over one million copies. She would eventually release another 22 installments and is now known as much for her workouts as for her acting.

Today: By the time the 90s were in full swing, Jane Fonda had apparently had her fill of the fitness industry and decided to focus more on her acting again. She did eventually release another workout video in 2010, but by then the world had moved on to DVD, of course. She’s now 79 years old, but you can tell that keeping fit over the years has really helped her stay young and healthy.


2. Jake Seinfeld

If the name Jake Seinfeld doesn’t ring a bell, perhaps you would remember the “Body By Jake” brand name instead? Jake was one of the fitness stars in the 1980s who promised out of this world results with an approachable strategy that wasn’t too intimidating for beginners. Who knows how many people actually ever reached their goals because of Jake, but he did launch FitTV, so he was certainly successful in that regard!

Today: Jake Seinfeld has done a very good job of evolving from the days of VHS fitness tapes to on-demand digital content through the internet. He has his own fitness brand called Jake Global, which of course he is the CEO and chairman of. He has also created FitOrbit 2.0, a training platform that uses the technology of today to help people get motivated to get (or even stay) in shape.


3. Heather Locklear

Heather Locklear was a bona fide superstar in the 1980s and 90s. As an actress and model, she captivated the men and connected well with the women. Many women really admired her appearance and wanted to know how she stayed in shape, so she decided to make her own fitness videos. The videos were intended to have Locklear serve as the viewer’s personal trainer, and of course, she wore all kinds of colorful leotards in typical 80s fashion!

Today: Like other stars who have prioritized health and fitness, Heather Locklear continues to look great to this day. She is now in her 50s but still has a great physique. In interviews, she has readily spoken about her commitment to fitness and nutrition, as she spends several hours each week working out and staying fit. Doing so has definitely added to her career longevity and kept her in top health!


4. John Travolta

John Travolta’s acting skills have always been very good, as evidenced in his many film performances over the years. However, he received just as much attention for his physique during his early roles, especially in Saturday Night Fever and Staying Alive, when he had to have the physique and skills of a professional dancer. In Perfect, working out was a central part of the film, and he had several scenes in a fitness studio.

Today: Like many of us, John Travolta is not in the kind of shape today that he was in his 20s. However, as he is 63 years old, you have to admit that he’s still looking pretty good for his age! While John Travolta doesn’t openly discuss fitness very much, you can tell that he has taken care of his body and health over the years even as he has continued the hectic schedule of a popular actor.


5. Alyssa Milano

When Alyssa Milano first found fame, it was as the TV daughter of Tony Danza on the hit sitcom Who’s the Boss? However, there was much more in the works for the young star. Long before she starred in Charmed, the actress was asked to do her own workout, which was appropriately named “Teen Steam.” The marketers behind the video believed that Milano’s appeal to teenagers would help them access a new audience beyond the stay-at-home moms that usually liked workout videos.

Today: Although it may seem like “Teen Steam” was a rather obvious marketing ploy, Alyssa Milano really does make an effort to stay fit, as you can tell by how in shape she continues to be to this day. She has had a very successful career and is now very popular on social media as well, where she likes to share her tips in areas such as healthy eating and exercise.

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19th Century Star Doppelgängers: Unbelievable Photos of Celebrities’ Civil War Look-Alikes

Some people share similar characteristics with others of the same background, or from the same families, or are even twins. However, there are also some bizarre cases of people who lived in completely different eras who look very alike. On social media there are innumerable pictures posted of ordinary people who look just like celebrities.

Nicolas Cage and Matthew McConaughey aren’t the only famous time travelers. See 19th century doppelgängers of John Travolta, Alec Baldwin, George W. Bush, and more...

1. Nicolas Cage

Ebay / PacificCoastNews.com (left); Peter Kramer / Getty Images

In September 2011, Jack Mord, an eBay seller in Seattle, put a photograph up for sale under the headline “Nicolas Cage Is a Vampire.” Mord claimed the image shows “a man who looks exactly like Nick Cage. Personally, I believe it’s him and that he is some sort of walking undead/vampire, etc., who quickens/reinvents himself once every 75 years or so. One hundred and fifty years from now, he might be a politician, the leader of a cult, or a talk-show host.”

Though there were 78 offers—the asking price was $1 million—all were rejected, and as of Sept. 22, the photograph was removed from the site. It is unknown whether Mord found a buyer or whether, perhaps, Cage forked out a million dollars himself to hide his secret.


2. John Travolta

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A week after the Nicolas Cage photo was removed from eBay, another seller from St. Thomas, Ontario offered a 19th-century ambrotype photograph of a man who looked eerily like John Travolta, proving that he was a “time traveler.” The woman, who identified herself as “Fawn” (and is friends with Jack Mord, the seller of the Cage “vampire” photo), insists the image is real—even if the asking price, $50,000, was a joke.

“When you look at it and into the eyes of the sitter you will see what I mean!” the seller wrote in her listing. “I believe this is the photograph of a very young John Travolta taken around 1860...”

She then explained the gap between the photo date and Travolta’s alleged year of human birth, 1954, as follows: “For those of you who don’t know, John Travolta is a Scientologist and many Scientologists believe in a type of reincarnation. Of course, Time travel can’t be ruled out as well.”


3. Matthew McConaughey

Library of Congress (left); Alexander Tamargo / Getty Images

Matthew McConaughey’s credo—and the name of his foundation—is “Just Keep Livin’.” The phrase comes from a line his character delivered in Dazed and Confused, but could it also explain why McConaughey appears in a Civil War–era photograph?


4. Christian Bale

Library of Congress (left); John Shearer / Getty Images

In 2005, Christian Bale starred in Batman Begins, but based on this portrait of a Civil War soldier, Batman Forever seems more appropriate.


5. Michael Phelps

Library of Congress (left); Chris Gordon / Getty Images

Sure, Michael Phelps has won 16 medals in his Olympic career—but how many did he win for his service in the Union Army?

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Mariora Goschen: The Young Girl Featured on the Controversial “Blind Faith” Album Cover in 1969

1969 saw the formation of one of rocks most underrated and under-appreciated supergroups in the form of Blind Faith. Formed by Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood initially, bassist Ric Grech and drummer Ginger Baker would join a little later and the outcome of this musical melding of minds was their self titled album, Blind Faith, released in August 1969. On the cover of the record is a naked, 11-year-old girl named Mariora Goschen.

This is the cover art for the album Blind Faith by the English supergroup Blind Faith.

Blind Faith wasn’t only known for the instrumental prowess of the group’s players. The album’s cover was one of the most controversial in rock history. It featured a photo of a nude 11-year-old holding a phallic-shaped metallic model of a futuristic airplane. “Eric and I put the band together, because musically we thought we had something to offer,” said Winwood. “But things started to escalate a little out of our hands. I still think the album was a great album and it stands up by itself as a great album, by a great band.”

The cover was deemed too controversial for the American market, but was later reinstated on a subsequent reissue. “At the time I didn’t think anything of it at all,” admitted Winwood. “But now I can see how controversial it is, because I have children of my own.”

US cover

The cover art was created by photographer Bob Seidemann, a personal friend and former flatmate of Clapton’s who is primarily known for his photos of Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead. In the mid-1990s, in an advertising circular intended to help sell lithographic reprints of the famous album cover, he explained his thinking behind the image:

“I could not get my hands on the image until out of the mist a concept began to emerge. To symbolize the achievement of human creativity and its expression through technology a spaceship was the material object. To carry this new spore into the universe, innocence would be the ideal bearer, a young girl, a girl as young as Shakespeare's Juliet. The spaceship would be the fruit of the tree of knowledge and the girl, the fruit of the tree of life. 

“The spaceship could be made by Mick Milligan, a jeweler at the Royal College of Art. The girl was another matter. If she were too old it would be cheesecake, too young and it would be nothing. The beginning of the transition from girl to woman, that is what I was after. That temporal point, that singular flare of radiant innocence. Where is that girl?”

Seidemann wrote that he approached a girl reported to be 14 years old on the London Underground about modeling for the cover, and eventually met with her parents, but that she proved too old for the effect he wanted. Instead, the model he used was her younger sister Mariora Goschen, who was reported to be 11 years old. Mariora initially requested a horse as a fee but was instead paid £40.

Bob Seidemann's Blind Faith at Brooklyn Museum's "Who Shot Rock & Roll" exhibit in 2009. (Photo by Eric Weiss)

Bizarre rumors both contributed to and were fueled by the controversy, including that the girl was Baker’s daughter or was a groupie kept as a slave by the band. The image, titled “Blind Faith” by Seidemann, became the inspiration for the name of the band itself, which had been unnamed when the artwork was commissioned. According to Seidemann: “It was Eric who elected to not print the name of the band on the cover. The name was instead printed on the wrapper, when the wrapper came off, so did the type.” This had been done previously for the Rolling Stones’ 1964 debut album, the Beatles’ albums Rubber Soul in 1965 and Revolver in 1966, and Traffic’s self-titled 1968 debut album.

In 1994, more than a quarter of a century after her one-off photo shoot, a 36 years old Mariora Goschen said in an interview: “The nudity didn’t bother me. I hardly noticed I had breasts. Life was far too hectic. I was mad about animals and much taken up with family and friends. But now, when people tell me they can remember what they were doing when they first saw the cover, and the effect it had on them, I’m thrilled to bits.” She added, “By the way, I’m still waiting for Eric Clapton to ring me about the horse.”

A portrait photo of Mariora Goschen in 2014. (Tom Pilston/ The Times)

Here's the First Photograph of a Human Being, and How the Scene Has Changed From 180 Years Ago

A lot has changed in Paris since the first photograph showing a human being was taken on its streets 180 years ago – but if you took one today using the same technique, you probably wouldn’t be able to make out anybody at all.

A reversed version of the first photograph ever to include a human being - and how the street in Paris looks today.

Louis Daguerre’s view of the Boulevard du Temple in the French capital was captured in 1838, using a method – the daguerreotype – that took around seven minutes to develop a single image.

Such a long exposure meant that anything moving around was not picked up. The only figure to stay still long enough was a man, on the corner of the street, who had stopped to have his shoes shined.

Daguerre's image of Boulevard du Temple, Paris, 3rd arrondissement, in 1838. The man having his shoes shined can be seen in the bottom left.

Created using a chemically-treated silver plate, it only shows anyone at all because the man stopped long enough to make history. Taking a daguerreotype in the same place today, it is unlikely anyone would be standing around having their shoes shined.

Boulevard du Temple in Paris, as it looks today.

Daguerre’s technique was the first to produce a sharp image in a way that could be widely replicated, and his was the first photographic method to be adopted around the world. As with most daguerreotypes, that of Boulevard du Temple is a mirror image. It has been flipped at the top of the page to make a more direct comparison with today.

The street is the Boulevard du Temple, part of a fashionable area of shops, cafés and theaters. It was nicknamed the "Boulevard du Crime" because of the many crime melodramas playing in its theaters. It later lost many of these when Baron Haussmann, under the instructions of Napoleon III, remodeled and modernized Paris, removing the narrow, dark and dangerous streets of the medieval city and replacing them with parks and open spaces. This process began in 1853.

While the man having his boots shined and the person doing the shining are the most recognizable human figures, a very detailed examination of the photograph reveals other possible people.

(via The Independent)

Best Friends Forever: 17 Adorable Before and After Family Photos of Dogs and Their Humans Growing Up Together

Whether you get a puppy or adopt an older dog, they quickly become just like another member of the family. They grow up with the family and a unique bond forms over many years. To show just how quickly they grow up, here are 17 adorable before and after photos of dogs and their owners growing up together more than 10 years.

1. Fourteen Years Apart

2. It's Just Not The Same Anymore

3. Thirteen Years Of The Best Dog A Kid Could Ever Have

4. Brandy And I 14 Years Apart

5. 14 Years Apart

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Reunion: 30 Amazing Then and Now Street Portraits of Strangers Recreated 40 Years Later

Street photographer Chris Porsz spent hours walking around the city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire in the U.K in the late 1970s and ’80s, taking candid shots of punks and policemen, siblings and sweethearts, traders and teenagers.

More than three decades later, Chris has reconstructed a handful of his favourite photos from his collection. He spent the last seven years tracking down the people in his pictures and persuading them to pose once again.

His hard work paid off and he has published his photos in a book named Reunions, which came out in November 2016.

“This book has been nearly 40 years in the making and I believe the project is totally unique. I don’t think anyone else has tracked down so many strangers and recreated photos in this way before,” said Chris.

1. Dog And Tina (1985 And 2015)

Punks Tina Tarr and her partner Dog were pictured near the Cathedral in Peterborough when Tina was 18. The couple left the city in the 1990s and went travelling. They have twins, but are no longer together. Tina now lives in Dorset and makes willow products and hosts weaving workshops. Dog does hedge laying and gardening and lives in South West Wales. “I remember the photo being taken, it was a brilliant time. I had various styles of punk hair for quite a few years,” said Tina. Dog added: “They were good times, I still had hair then.”


2. Five Boys Running (1987 And 2016)

Andy, who has been married for 21 years and has a daughter, said: “I remember playing the arcade game Phoenix, which involved birds hatching out of eggs.” Andy went into the Army after leaving school and drove trucks in the Transport Corps. He left in 1987 and has been working for the Royal Mail in Werrington, near Peterborough, ever since. Richard is now an electrician in Peterborough and is married with two boys. He said: “There were only about 70 of us in our school year and we were all really close. They were happy times.” Tony James works as a stone cutter and has two children; Aaron works at Ikea and is married with three boys. Devinder moved to Yorkshire in 1986 and is married with two boys and works for the Housing Association. They've organised a school reunion and plan to keep in touch.


3. Metal Mickey (1980 And 2016)

Steve Osborn was known as Metal Mickey in the 1980s as he broke both his legs several times in a series of motor biking accidents and had plates and bolts put in them. He said: “I even carried on riding my bike with my leg in a cast!.” Steve, who now uses walking sticks to get around, lives in Spalding, Lincolnshire and is married. He had four children, but his son died in 2012. Steve plays the guitar with different bands and has raised more than £20,000 for the National Association of Bikers with a Disability.


4. Jewellery Assistant (1990 And 2015)

Vicki Gracey (nee Frost) worked as a sales assistant at a jewellery store in Queensgate Shopping Centre for two years. Vicki has since had jobs behind bars, in retail, hairdressing and restaurants and currently deals with tenancy sustainability. She still lives in the city and is married with two children. “I'm a people person and I've always had jobs which involve working with the public,” she said.


5. Pink Mohican (1985 And 2016)

Punk Badger Farcue can still remember winning the Pizza Eating Competition in Cathedral Square. The contest was organized by Stefan Malajny, who ran the Papa Luigi pizza restaurant. Stefan said: “I remember Badger managed to eat his pizza in about two minutes, which was very fast.” Badger was 20 at the time of the contest and worked as a laborer, building dry stone walls. He said: “My friends encouraged me to enter and we had to try and eat a 12-inch cheese and tomato pizza as quickly as possible. I won and got a round of applause and front page of the local paper.” Badger, who has five children, moved to Somerset in 1991 and now tarmacs roads.

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Global Warming Evidence: Shocking Then & Now Photos Reveal What 100 Years of Climate Change Has Done to Arctic Glaciers

In the early 1900s, Arctic glaciers were nature's most mysterious and undiscovered wonders. Over 100 years of research, exploration, and exploitation later, the glaciers have become a haunting testament to the effects of climate change.

Christian Åslund, a Swedish photographer who works with Greenpeace, compiled a collection of images taken in Svalbard during the early part of the 20th century and positioned them alongside his own group of images taken in the same location.

The shocking photos are being used to promote National Geographic's #MyClimateAction campaign. The campaign itself is aiming to raise awareness about climate change, and to encourage protest against oil drilling in the melting Arctic.

A lot can happen in 100 years. A lot. Just look at the current state of the Arctic glaciers now compared with what they looked like roughly 100 years ago.

(Photos: Christian Åslund/Norwegian Polar Institute, via Mpora)

Japanese Interned Mother Holding Her Baby Sleeping Daughter and an Emotional Story Behind The Picture in 1942

Born 1911, Japanese-American activist Fumiko Hayashida became one of the first Japanese Americans to be interned in March 1942.

In a photo that became a symbol of a painful chapter in U.S. history, Fumiko Hayashida, who was 31 years old at the time, holds her sleeping 13-month-old daughter, Natalie, while waiting to board a ferry from Bainbridge Island to the mainland with other Japanese American internees.

Hayashida was interned for a year at Manzanar before being moved to the Minidoka internment camp in Idaho to be closer to relatives and friends.

(Left) Fumiko Hayashida, 31, carries her daughter Natalie Kayo, 13 months, prepares to board the ferry at Bainbridge Island, Wa. on March 30, 1942. (Right) Fumiko Hayashida, 95, and her daughter Natalie Ong, 66, photographed July 20, 2006.

THEN: Fumiko Hayashida, 31, carries her daughter Natalie Kayo, 13 months, as she prepares to board the ferry at Bainbridge Island, Wa. on March 30, 1942.

Hayashida was among a large group of Japanese Americans who were taken by armed soldiers to the Manzanar Internment Camp in California after Executive Order 9066 was issued on February 19, 1942. She arrived at Manzanar by train on April 1, 1942.

(Photo Credit: Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry).

A symbol picture of a painful chapter in U.S. history, Fumiko Hayashida, among first Japanese American internees, holds her sleeping daughter in March 1942 as they waited to be sent to an internment camp.

NOW: Fumiko Hayashida, 95, and her daughter Natalie Ong, 66, photographed July 20, 2006 on the family farm from which they had been evacuated on Bainbridge Island, Wa.

(Photograph by Paul Kitagaki, Jr.)

Fumiko Hayashida, 95, and her daughter Natalie Ong, 66, photographed July 20, 2006

In 2006, Hayashida testified in favor of a proposed memorial for Japanese American internees on Bainbridge Island before a U.S. congressional committee. The Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial was opened in 2011.

In 2014, Fumiko Hayashida dies at 103.

Vashon Island Bike Tree: The True Story Behind “a Boy Left His Bike Chained to a Tree When He Went Away to War in 1914”

The kids’ bicycle embedded into a tree is a bit of a tourist attraction on Vashon Island, Washington, just outside of Seattle. It’s also become a source of folklore and fake internet stories. The most famous of the fakes is that a young boy went off to fight in WWI and left his bike up against the tree and never came back, so the tree grew around the bike. That’s not true!

It’s actually from the 1950s. According to Snopes, the bicycle is believed to have been abandoned on that tree in the mid-1950s. The tree is believed to have grown around it. A local sheriff named Don Puz claims it was his bicycle, but nobody knows for certain.

Tales abound explaining how a red bicycle came to be lodged in a Vashon tree a dozen feet up. Some say it ended up there by chance, while others contend in was intentional cleverness. One former Islander, Berkeley Breathed, even wrote a children’s book about the mystery.

But one longtime Island family had laid a solid claim to the bicycle in a tree just north of Sound Food. Two generations concur that the bicycle belonged to Don Puz, who in 1954 left his bicycle in the woods, forgot about it and never went back looking for it.

Don received the bicycle as a donation after the family home burnt down, he said.

The bicycle wasn’t his favorite — it had hard, solid rubber tires “and skinny little handlebars like a tricycle,” he said. “I was too big a kid to ride it.”

As his mother Helen Puz tells the story, Don and his friends were playing in the woods together, and Don was the only child who had ridden his bicycle there. When the boys left, Don left his bike behind, walking home with the other boys.

“Apparently, he wasn’t too excited about that bike,” she said.

After the bike was discovered, making headlines, both mother and son paid it a visit.

“We went down there in the woods, and there was this bike in the tree, and I said, ‘That’s my bike,'” Don recalled. “I recognized it immediately. When I saw that bike, I recognized it, because I don’t think I’ve ever seen another one like it.”

Although Don Puz identified the bicycle in the picture as his and verified that he had abandoned it in the area shown many years earlier, he said nothing about having left it chained to a tree. And given the location of the bike within the tree and the manner in which trees actually grow, it’s quite unlikely the bicycle ended up in its current position through the tree’s naturally enveloping it and growing around it, as many viewers assume — almost certainly one or more persons had a hand in moving the bike after Don abandoned it back in 1954.

As well, the bicycle exhibits a somewhat varied appearance in photographs taken at different times because over the years parts of it (e.g., handlebars, tires) have been stolen and later replaced with similar parts.

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These People Recreated Amazing Photos of Their Grandparents From the Past

We all love our grandparents, but we rarely think of their lives when they were young. Some of them have been through much and have seen war, so much conflict, and so many changes. In a way to honor them and show their love and appreciation for them, people are time traveling by recreating their grandparents old photographs, and they're nailing it.

Bored Panda has collected some of the best grandchildren attempts to mimic their grandmas and grandpas, and you'll be amazed by the amount of effort they've put into it. But it was definitely worth it. From visiting the same sights to wearing identical outfits, these people bonded with their ancestors on another level.

1. Grandmother and granddaughter

2. Recreating a great-grandmother’s 1918 portrait

3. A couple tried to recreate a picture of the girl’s grandparents

4. 3 generations of firefighters: from left – grandfather Colin Gunn in 1966, father Nick Gunn in 1988 and son Owen Gunn in 2015

5. Genes are a powerful thing

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