Can You Tell Cindy Crawford and Kaia Gerber Apart? The Internet Can’t

This afternoon, supermodel Cindy Crawford shared a yearbook photo of herself from the ’80s next to one of her daughter Kaia Gerber now. In a world where yearbook photos fall into the same category as passports and licenses—as in a stark, high-contrast universe in which everyone appears to have jaundice and a gormless expression that’s fit for a mug shot—Crawford and Gerber’s portraits both have that rare, otherworldly supermodel quality. Crawford’s black-and-white photo shows her sporting a perfectly coiffed bouffant, while Gerber sports a pin-straight blowout and trendy gold chain. Despite the difference in time and place, the resemblance is so uncanny it had the Internet fooled. Katie Grand posted an image of Gerber and captioned it “Young Cindy.” (Crawford herself had to chime in and correct Ms. Grand.) Even Instagram account Diet Prada, the arbiter of “who copied who” in fashion called out Grand’s rib-tickling error, which she later corrected, posting a screenshot of the hilarious Instagram exchange.

Furthermore, the picture tells a bigger story about Cindy Crawford than meets the eye. Take a closer look at the post, and you’ll discover just how accomplished Ms. Crawford was in high school. There’s a half-visible list of clubs and extracurricular activities next to her image that’s impressive to say the least. In an earlier Instagram video, Crawford points out that she was on the student council executive board, on the math team, and made National Honor Society, too. Crawford was also valedictorian of her high school and later received an academic scholarship to attend Northwestern University where she studied chemical engineering. Though she later dropped out to pursue modeling, the supermodel certainly hasn’t lost any of her college smarts: She went on NPR almost 30 years later and managed to answer science trivia on the spot. Sounds like A-plus genetic makeup to us.

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