These Celebrity Kids Are Carbon Copies of Their Parents

Families are just as often knit together via love, not genes, but sometimes the genetic resemblance is just too striking to ignore. Case in point? How about the dozens of celebrity kids who look exactly like their parents, so much so that the word "twin" instantly comes to mind. And while there's no shortage of lookalike family members who aren't famous, spending your life in the spotlight means fans are all but guaranteed to take note.

Actors, models, and musicians achieve celebrity status via a number of different avenues, but their kids are basically guaranteed to be haunted by their nepo baby status from day one. That said, there are plenty of upsides to looking exactly like, say, Reese Witherspoon or Brooke Shields. Ahead, 12 celebrity kids who are carbon copies of their very famous parents.

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Ava Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon

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Ava Phillippe has been called Reese Witherspoon's twin for seemingly her entire life, and the similarities only get more striking as time goes on. From matching mother-daughter sunglasses to a strapless gown twinning moment, this pair loves to highlight the fact that good genes—and good taste—really do run in the family.

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Dan Levy and Eugene Levy

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Eugene and Dan Levy don't just share looks; they also share creative projects, like that time they co-hosted the 2024 Emmy Awards.Their most famous collaboration, of course, is their Emmy Award-winning series, Schitt's Creek, which not only featured father and son but also included Dan's sister Sarah and Eugene's brother Frank.

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Liv Tyler and Steven Tyler

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Growing up in the shadow of Steven Tyler's fame as lead singer of Aerosmith, Liv Tyler was no stranger to the spotlight. And with such strong family genes, it's no surprise that Liv's own daughter, Lula Rose, also inherited their signature looks.

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Kaia Gerber and Cindy Crawford

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Kaia Gerber inherited mom Cindy Crawford's looks as well as her penchant for modeling. Ever since her runway debut at the age of 16, Gerber has taken the fashion world by storm—and bonded with her "iconic" mom over the ups and downs of their shared industry.

"Modeling has given my mom and me something new to bond over," Gerber wrote in an essay for Vogue. "I didn't really know what questions to ask her until I found myself immersed in this world that she knows so much about."

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Zoë Kravitz and Lisa Bonet

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Zoë Kravitz may have made headlines most recently for her directing debut, Don't Blink, and likewise for her engagement to Channing Tatum, but her mom is a veteran of the spotlight. Looking back, Kravitz is grateful for the values Lisa Bonet instilled in her.

"I just wish I had been able to appreciate what she was doing for me," Kravitz said in an interview with Esquire. "She was so focused on preserving my innocence. My creativity. Because she knew what the world is—that you don't get that back."

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Apple Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow

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Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin famously orchestrated a "conscious uncoupling" back in 2014, but now it's their daughter, Apple Martin, who's taking center stage. In an Oprah interview that aired just a few months after Apple was born, Paltrow revealed why she and Chris choose the name for their daughter:

"Basically it was because, when we were first pregnant, her daddy said one day, if it's a girl I think her name should be Apple, and it just sounded so sweet and it conjures such a lovely picture for me, you know apples are so sweet and they're wholesome and it's biblical and I just thought it sounded so lovely, and then she was born and it became an international outrage, which I found surprising because there are people named Rose or Lily or Ivy or June or lots of pretty nouns."

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Mamie Gummer and Meryl Streep

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Meryl Streep is a living legend when it comes to Hollywood, and her three daughters (and son) are well on their way to similar show business success. Among them? Mamie Gummer, the eldest of the girls, who just so happens to be the spitting image of her mother.

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Tracee Ellis Ross and Diana Ross

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Speaking of living legends: Diana Ross. The 80-year-old singer, who has been a mainstay on the airwaves since her stint as the lead singer of the 1960s group the Supremes, is mother to five kids, including Black-ish star Tracee Ellis Ross.

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Maya Hawke and Uma Thurman

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Though Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke are no longer together, their kid, Maya Hawke, bears a striking resemble to both mom and dad. What's more, the self-described nepo baby has carved her own path in Hollywood and yet still finds time to twin with her mom on the red carpet.

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Blue Ivy and Beyoncé

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There is perhaps nothing more iconic than being the daughter of Beyoncé Knowles and Jay-Z. And though Blue Ivy has grown up under an intense spotlight, her lookalike mom has done everything she can to preserve some semblance of normalcy.

"I am very protective," Knowles told ABC News in 2013. "I just want to make sure that she can have a healthy, safe, normal life...in the back of my mind, she's my priority. And life is completely different now. So I feel really, really just lucky that I can still do what I love, and now have a way bigger meaning. And that's to be her mother."

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Shiloh Jolie and Angelina Jolie

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Hollywood veteran Angelina Jolie has many children, but her twinning moment always comes when she steps out on the red carpet with her daughter, Shiloh Jolie (who only recently dropped her other surname, "Pitt").

"We're really such a unit," Jolie told the New York Times, referring to all six of her kids. "They're the best friends I've ever had. Nobody in my life has ever stood by me more."

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Brooke Shields and Rowan Francis Henchy

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Brooke Shields quite literally grew up in the spotlight after skyrocketing to fame for her role in Pretty Baby when she as just 12 years old. Taking a different tack with her own lookalike daughters, Rowan and Grier, the supermodel raised them in a low-key, tight-knit family environment with her husband, Chris Henchy.

"The minute my husband is on any type of work trip or gone or something, you know, they still sleep in the bed with me," Shields said on SiriusXM's The Jess Cagle Show. "We still watch rom-coms. They're my babies and they will never not be."