Vanity or Insanity?

So right now, there is a little thingy that everyone (ok, not everybody) is doing for their Facebook profile. You are supposed to update your profile picture to reflect the celebrity that people think resembles you. Or that you resemble them.

Yeah. Tricky.

See, people have told me on the rare occasion I do look like a good looking celebrity, but it is often after they have had something to drink.

And honestly, it has been very rare.

So, it's something I dare not participate in. This is one of those things where you have to be very careful. You don't want to post a picture of someone really hot and have everybody be like, "Who the f&^5 is she kidding?!" But at the same time, you don't want to put a picture of Shrek up or anything.

And have people nodding their heads saying and rubbing their chins going, "Oh yeah, I can TOTALLY see that . . . "

This goes hand in hand with the question that keeps me up at nights - and that is "Who would play me in a Lifetime movie?"

Now, I have tossed and turned over this question because of the following:

1) My life is not interesting enough to have a Lifetime movie made in my honor. So that is a bummer.

2) But if it WAS, I would like to know that the person had solid acting skills. And was relatively good looking.

3) Now, another issue is, I want a true A-list celebrity to play me. Like Eva Longoria. I don't care if she is several dress sizes smaller than me. And way hotter.

Because it's MY Lifetime movie.

So here is the rundown of celebrities I have been told I could possible bear a resemblance to. Now, they are not all the same shape and size or even the same color. You will smirk, you will judge, you will be like - that makes no SENSE!

1) Rosanna Arquette. I think it has something to do with my overbite. Yes she is blonde. I know that.

2) Marisa Tomei. This one makes me happy, but I have heard this one usually before someone is asking me for a big favor, so I really am not thinking it's very true.

3) Natalie Imbruglia. This is the one I have gotten once or twice when someone was drunk. If they have heard of Natalie Imbruglia. And if they have consumed enough alcohol to kill a short person. I have been known to hug them and thank them profusely. And I will give them instant mad props if they can name any of her other songs other than "Torn."

4) Kermit the Frog. My old High School friend, Gwendolyn, used to think I slightly resembled Kermit in my mannerisms. I like to think it's because she found me as endearing as him, but I am not sure. However, I will admit to being fairly "muppetesque" so she did it with good reason. She will still call me her favorite frog when she posts on my Facebook wall. I love her too much to think too deeply about this comparison.

And frankly, as long as she is not calling me Miss Piggy, I guess I am cool with it.


5) Girl From CVS. And this one is not a celebrity, as such. But the nice gentleman from our McDonald's drive-thru thinks I look like the chick from the CVS on the other side of town. I told one of my neighbors who was like "Um, no. NOT at ALL." I don't know if this is because she is way better looking than me, or I am way better looking than her, but I will have to go buy make-up I don't need so I can check this whole thing out.

Similar to when you apply for college and your guidance counselor tells you what your "reach" schools are, I could say that the first three are my "reach"es and the last two are probably my "realistic."

So there you have it. I will not post a picture of my "reaches" on Facebook as my profile picture, because I would not presume to do that to these beautiful women who would be like, "Oh no she didn't!" (Double, No, NO TRIPLE Snap, Jerry Springer style).

This is an old promo picture of me from when I was a musician and thought guys would dig me more if I carried a guitar around. I don't know what I was looking at, but think I succeeded in looking fairly vacuous (but with an edge, right?).

So, my question to you is - WHO WOULD PLAY YOU IN YOUR LIFETIME MOVIE? Don't be shy. I don't care if you tell me you want it to be Rebecca Romjin and you're only 5'freakin2".

Spill it.

XOXO,
Kiran