Have you ever looked in the mirror and seen .................... your grandmother?

Sadly I am becoming more and more like my mother both physically and in my character. Not great!

My mother.

I only knew one grandmother and , thank God, I’m nothing like her. My OH saw a picture of her and described her as having fallen from the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down. She wasn’t a nice person either . I hope that I didn’t inherit anything from her.

When i look in the mirror i see my mother looking back at me. In later life she was on the heavy side, and i seem to be going the same way¬!

Yes, I see my mother when I look in the mirror, I'm beginning to act like her too, grumbling about everything!

Theoddbird

I have my father's facial bone structure I think. My eldest grandson is the splitting image of his great great grandfather. In pictures looks like same person.

I had a half sister. We had the same mother. I look like my father and she looked nothing like either our mother or her own father. It always bothered her.

Becoming interested in family history, I came across a distant cousin on Ancestry who had shared a photo of our maternal great, great grandmother as a young woman. It is one of those Victorian pictures where the sitter is wearing a fur coat and huge hat. There, looking straight to camera was the spitting image of my half-sister even to the distinctive way her front teeth crossed ever so slightly.

I had a photo of my sister where her head position was almost identical. I photoshopped her face into the Victorian shot and send her both asking her to spot the difference.

Amazing how ancestral traits can come though several generations as if there had been no genetic mixing in between.

I am my dad reincarnate, right down to the odd bits of wood and lengths of string in the garage that will come in useful "one of these days".

Just what happened to me. I'm wearing my hair up now and passed a mirror. And there she was, Kezia Walsh - my great grandma! I feel very honoured but wonder if 15 months of no makeup was really a good idea!

Not yet. I'm the only redhead, which thank goodness I'm still hanging onto. My grannies were already grey when I was a child. I have my dad's eyes though, but not his comb over

Yes! See my mother gazing back, albeit with completely different hair (no classic perm for me thanks ha!). More disconcerting is that I feel like my brother, who died recently, when I eat; I can see his mouth moving as he chewed and I feel like my mouth is doing the same slightly distinctive movement. I'd never be able to be on Masterchef as a judge, I don't chew elegantly, though I never chew with my mouth open! (Can't bear people who chomp away with their mouths opening all the time).

Sort of see my mum sometimes. My gran was a little old lady in a pinny with no teeth, so don't see her in my reflection. Yet

Yes I do. I am the same age now as my grandmother was when she died and I am her spitting image.

I see my mother- well what she would have looked like with long hair and “that black stuff around your eyes” as she once called it ( as in “Do you have to wear that black stuff....?”)
In the year before she died she turned into the spit of her mother ( longer hair, brushed not styled), so I expect I will turn into my grandma too. My daughter and I are always being told that we resemble each other ( which obvs thrills me, her, not so much...) and her son at 7 weeks looks v like her. And so the genes continue...

I see my sister, who died in 2012, when I look in the mirror. When she was alive I never noticed a resemblance.

One of my children , as a 12 year old,looked so like my mother did as a girl of the same age, that when she met my mother’s sister for the first and last time ( overseas) my mum’s sister went all pale and thought she had seen a ghost ! Weird things genetics.

I looked in the mirror about 15 years ago and saw my mothers body shape, nose, eyes and hair, but my dads lips and legs. My mum was a ginger and I'm a gingery blonde so yep, we are very similar but I am about a foot taller then her, bless her.

When I look in the mirror I see my Aunt (my Dad’s sister.) Actually she looked like a female version of my dad!

I look very much like my Grandma, my Father's Mum

I am the only dark haired one in a family of 5 siblings and look nothing like the others who look like mum. However, we have a photo of a great-great paternal aunt where you'd swear it was me in Victorian clothes. Paternal grandmother died before my parents met so no idea what she looked like. Maternal grandmother was auburn and fair skinned, which would have been very nice to inherit.

I look like my mum, sister looks like dad.

It's the lockdown wot dunnit. My hair grew very long and I kept it pinned up on top of my head - hello, Grandma!

I look like my dad but after recently hearing myself on a video I sounded just like my aunt, my Mums sister. It was her voice exactly.

I have my Mothers hands. As i get older I hear myself sounding more like her. She lived to be 100 and was a very good Mum. She died in 2008 and I still miss her

No, never. My father was adopted so I wouldn't look anything like the gran i knew growing up and I never met his birth mother.

Fortunately, the only time I saw my mother out her mother in a mirror was if they were standing behind me.

I'm thankful every day that I'm not like my vile mother's side of the family.

I usually have my hair cut at home so don't look in a mirror while it is being done. When my hairdresser was ill I went to one in my high street. Sat in front of the mirror with my hair pulled back I could see my dad!