Being the child of celebrity parents seems similar to winning the lottery - having an instant connection to a glamorous lifestyle while enjoying the genetic benefits of talented and beautiful parents ought to be an instant leg up in life.

In reality, living with celebrity parents can be a difficult experience. While there are many caring and loving celebrity parents, there are also a number of them not this way. Often celebrity parents have very demanding schedules that mean they have to take extended periods of time away from their families.

It’s also very difficult to grow up in the limelight. Everyone goes through an awkward or uncomfortable phase in their life, and that period can leave lasting damage if every move they make is scrutinized and discussed by the public.

Additionally, there is the pressure to live up to the example that has already been set by your parents. If your mother was a multi-talented actress and musician, you may be expected to display the same kind of talent.

Unfortunately for many children of celebrities, talent and appearance aren’t always genetic. There are a number of children of celebrities who look almost nothing like their parents.

Here are 20 A-List Stars With Unrecognizable Children.

Kim Kardashian

Kim Kardashian has been married three times. First to music producer Damon Thomas in 2000, when she was just 19 years old. The couple divorced in 2003 with Kardashian accusing Thomas of physical and emotional abuse.

In 2011, she married NBA player Kris Humphries in a two-part TV special that showed the wedding and the events leading up to it. The couple was divorced just 72 days later. In 2014 Kardashian famously married rapper and producer Kanye West.

They have three children together: North West, 4, Saint West, 2, and Chicago West who was born in January of 2018.

Kardashian's oldest child, North, takes after her father more than her mother. Her eyes and nose look much more like West's than Kardashian's.

Bruce Willis

Bruce Willis met his future wife, Demi Moore, at the premiere of the movie Stakeout in August of 1987. Just a few months later, in November of 1987, the couple were married. They were married for 11 years before they separated in 1998 and officially divorced in 2000. Over the course of their marriage, the couple had three daughters, Rumer Willis, Tallulah Belle Willis, and Scout Willis.

All three of Willis and Moore's children are now adults, and all three have had some measure of success. Scout Willis is a graduate of Brown University, while Rumer and Tallulah both pursued careers in show business.

Despite becoming an actor like her old man, there aren’t many other similarities between Bruce and Rumer Willis. She seems to have taken after her mother.

Snoop Dogg

Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr., better known as Snoop Dogg, has had a rocky relationship with his former high school sweetheart Shante Taylor over the years. The couple was first married in June of 1997 but were later divorced in 2004. Four years later, in 2008, the couple renewed their vows and were married again.

They've had three children over the 20 plus years they've been together: Corde Broadus, 23, Cordell Broadus, 21, and Cori Broadus, 18.

Of Snoop’s three children, his oldest son, Corde, looks the least like him. Corde was a standout high school football star. He was a 4-star recruiting prospect and received multiple collegiate offers before committing to UCLA. He left the team in 2016 to pursue other passions.

Rowan Atkinson

Rowan Atkinson married BBC makeup artist Sunestra Sastry in 1990 after first meeting in the '80s. The couple was married for over 20 years before they split in 2014 and divorced in 2015. Over the course of their marriage, they had two children: Ben, 24, and Lily, 23.

Atkinson's son Ben is the spitting image of his father, but Lily is more than definitely not. She carries none of her father’s trademark features. Her nose, eyes, and eyebrows are all significantly smaller. In an apparent effort to distance herself from her father, Lily changed her last name to Sastry shortly after her parents' divorce.

To add a little bit of drama to the family, at the age of 62, Rowan Atkinson is about to become a father again. The woman he has been seeing since his divorce, 34-year-old actress Louise Ford, is pregnant.

Beyonce

Beyonce may be part of the biggest power couple of all time. She met her husband Jay-Z after the two collaborated on the song '03 Bonnie & Clyde in 2002. The two later married in secret, without much publicity.

Despite their desire to distance themselves from the media spotlight, the birth of their first child was a cultural sensation.

Knowles made the announcement that she was pregnant on the stage of the MTV Video Music Awards in 2011 and helped that year’s broadcast become the most-watched broadcast in MTV history. The announcement also holds the world record for “most tweets per second recorded for a single event” with over 8,000 tweets per second.

The child who caused the media firestorm, Blue Ivy Carter, was born in 2012 and looks almost nothing like her mother. Instead, she has nearly identical features to her father, Jay-Z.

Alec Baldwin

Alec Baldwin met his former wife, Kim Basinger, in 1990 on the set of The Marrying Man. The couple were married in 1993 and had a daughter, Ireland Baldwin, in 1995. The couple divorced in 2002 and endured a prolonged 7-year custody battle over their daughter.

In his book A Promise to Ourselves: A Journey Through Fatherhood and Divorce, Baldwin accused his ex-wife of intentionally keeping their daughter from him. In the book he says that Basinger refused to discuss parenting, blocked visitations, didn’t give him phone numbers, didn’t follow court orders, wouldn’t drop their daughter off, and tried to turn their child against him. The book also says the Baldwin spent $1.5 million in the battle.

Today, his daughter is 22 years old and works as a professional model and actress. She also looks nothing like her father.

Kelly Preston

Kelly Preston has been in several very famous relationships. She was married to Kevin Gage from 1985 to 1987, she had a relationship with George Clooney, and was famously engaged to Charlie Sheen before he accidentally shot her in the arm and the engagement was broken off.

The most famous of her relationships, however, is her marriage to actor John Travolta.

The two met while filming The Experts in 1987 and were married in France in 1991. The couple had three children, Ella Bleu Travolta, 18, Benjamin Travolta, 7, and Jett who tragically passed away in 2009 at the age of 16.

All three of Kelly Preston’s children drastically take after their father, but it is most prominent in Ella whose dark hair and rounder face is nothing like her mother’s.

Ron Perlman

The star of Hellboy and Sons of Anarchy may appear menacing on screen, but in real life, he’s much more of a family man. He married his wife, jewelry designer Opal Perlman, in 1981 and the two have been together ever since. They have two children together, 34-year-old Blake Perlman and 28-year-old Brandon Perlman.

Both of his children have gone into show business. Blake is an actress and musician while his son Brandon is an electronic music producer who uses the name, Delroy Edwards.

Ron Perlman has long been known for his unique look and is often able to use it to his advantage in performances. While his son Brandon looks almost exactly like his father, Perlman’s daughter Blake couldn’t look more different. Instead, Blake takes after her mother with her much less prominent features.

Jessica Alba

Jessica Alba met her husband Cash Warren while the two were working on the set of the original Fantastic Four movie in 2004. They were married in 2008 and the growth of their family has attracted a lot of attention. The first pictures of their first child, Honor Marie Warren, were published by OK! Magazine for a reported price of $1.5 million.

On New Year's Eve in 2017, Jessica Alba welcomed her third daughter named Hayes Alba Warren.

Because she’s only a few months old, Hayes doesn’t look much like her mother, but she’s not the only one in the family.

Her older sister Haven Garner Warren has very few similarities to her mother. While her eyes are somewhat comparable to Alba's, nearly every other feature, including her reddish blonde hair, is not.

Nicolas Cage

While he’s best known for his frantic performances on screen, Nicolas Cage’s love life has had its own sets of ups and downs over the years. He has been married three times, starting with Patricia Arquette in 1995.

The couple was together for 6 years before divorcing in 2001. His next marriage was to singer/songwriter Lisa Marie Presley (Elvis Presley’s daughter) in 2002. The marriage only lasted 3 months before they filed for divorce. His third marriage was to a former waitress named Alice Kim. The two had a son named Kal-El and separated in 2016.

Cage has one other son, 27-year-old Weston Coppola Cage. Weston is the son of Cage’s former girlfriend, Christina Fulton. Weston is the former lead singer of the black metal band Eyes of Noctum and looks almost nothing like his father.

Ben Affleck

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner met on the sets of Pearl Harbor and the infamous Daredevil. Garner and Affleck started dating in 2004. They were married in 2005 and were together for 10 years before the couple split in 2015, and legally divorced in 2017.

Affleck and Garner have three children together: Violet Anne, 13, Seraphina “Sera” Rose Elizabeth, 9, and Samuel “Sam” Garner, 6.

In 2012, Affleck publicly criticized paparazzi for taking interest in his children.

While he believes that media attention is part of being a celebrity, he has called for legislation that would require paparazzi to keep a certain distance from any child and blur children’s faces in any pictures that were published.

No faces were blurred when someone took a picture of Affleck with his daughter Violet in 2009. If they had, it would be more difficult to see how incredibly different they look.

Chris Elliott

Chris Elliott’s name may not be immediately recognizable, but his face certainly is. Whether it’s Saturday Night Live, Groundhog Day, Everybody Loves Raymond, or How I Met Your Mother, there’s bound to be something that you’ve seen Chris Elliott in.

Elliott has been married to Paula Niedert since 1986, who was a talent coordinator on Late Night with David Letterman. The couple has been married for over 30 years and have two daughters, Abby Elliott and Bridey Elliott. Both of his daughters have become successful actresses of their own.

In 2008, Abby became a cast member of Saturday Night Live making her the first SNL cast member to be the child of a past cast member. There aren’t many other similarities between the two, however.

Steven Tyler

The lead singer of Aerosmith and rock legend Steven Tyler has had a lot of relationships over the years, some of which have been very controversial. In 1975, at the age of 27, he persuaded the parents of a 16-year-old girl named Julia Holcomb to sign over guardianship to him so she could live with him.

In 1977, he had a relationship with a model named Bebe Buell. The relationship was brief but resulted in the birth of Steven Tyler’s oldest child Liv Tyler.

To keep her daughter away from Steven Tyler’s substance abuse, Bebe Buell claimed that Liv was actually the daughter of musician Todd Rundgren.

When Liv was 8 years old, she met another of Tyler's children and noticed a resemblance.

It was then that Liv’s real parentage was revealed. Despite some similarities as a child, Liv looks almost nothing like her father now.

Howard Stern

Howard Stern is an overall media legend. Despite suffering from an obsessive-compulsive disorder, he has been a prominent radio and television personality for years, while also being a successful producer, author, actor, and photographer.

He has married twice over the course of his life. While at Boston University, he met his first wife Alison Berns. The couple was married in 1978 when they were both 24 years old. They have three daughters: Emily, 35, Debra, 32, and Ashley, 24. Their marriage lasted 24 years before the couple had an amicable divorce in 2001. All three of Stern's children were upset by their parents' separation and spoke out in the media.

Howard Stern is known for his signature look which is difficult to duplicate. His oldest daughter Emily has some similarities, but his middle daughter Debra looks almost nothing like him.

Gisele Bündchen

Gisele Bündchen is one of the most famous supermodels in the world. Bündchen has been one of the highest paid models in the world for over a decade. In 2007, she was named one of the richest women in the entertainment industry, and in 2012, she was the highest-earning model on Forbes top-earning models list.

Bündchen was in several celebrity relationships (including one with Leonardo DiCaprio from 2000-2005) before meeting New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady in 2006. The couple met after a blind date and married in 2009. They have two children, Benjamin Brady, 9, and Vivian Lake Brady, 5.

There is undoubtedly a genetic advantage to having a hall of fame football player and a supermodel for parents.

But it seems that Benjamin Brady has taken after his father. Despite sharing a similar complexion, the two look almost nothing alike.

Kyra Sedgwick

Kyra Sedgwick may not be as famous as her instantly recognizable husband, but the actress and Golden Globe winner has certainly made an excellent career for herself. Best known for her acclaimed role on TNT’s The Closer, Sedgwick has consistently worked as an actress since 1988. She has appeared in well-known and critically acclaimed movies such as Born on the Fourth of July, Something To Talk About, and Singles.

Sedgwick married actor Kevin Bacon in 1988. The couple has two children together, Travis Sedgwick Bacon, 28, and Sosie Ruth Bacon, 26.

It was revealed in an episode of Find Your Roots that Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon are actually very distant relatives. According to research done by the show, they are 9th cousins, once removed. Despite this tenuous connection, their children look a lot more like their father than their mother.

Rob Lowe

Prior to meeting his wife and settling down, Rob Lowe was infamous for his partying lifestyle. The Emmy-nominated actor was the subject of one of the first commercially available celebrity tapes in 1988.

He rebounded from that part of his life and in 1991, he married Sheryl Berkoff. The couple first met at a speed dating event before meeting again on the set of the movie Bad Influence. Over the course of their 27-year marriage, they’ve had two children, Matthew Edward Lowe, 24, and John Owen Lowe, 22.

There are a number of similarities between Rob Lowe and his oldest son Matthew, but not with John.

They share a similar forehead and nose shape, but there are fewer similarities between Lowe and his younger son.

Julia Roberts

Julia Roberts is one of the most famous women in America and has been in a number of famous celebrity relationships. Over the years, she dated Jason Patric, Dylan McDermott, Matthew Perry, and Liam Neeson. She was also engaged to Kiefer Sutherland in 1991, but the relationship ended just three days before the wedding. She was briefly married to country singer Lyle Lovett, but the couple divorced in 1995.

In 2000, Roberts met cameraman Daniel Moder on the set of her movie The Mexican, who was married at the time. After Moder’s divorce in 2002, the couple got married. They have three children together: twins Hazel Patricia and Phinnaeus Walter Moder, 14, and Henry Daniel Moder, 11.

Robert’s fraternal twins look almost nothing alike. Hazel looks a lot like her mother, but Phinnaeus shares almost no features with his mother.

Sandra Bernhard

Best known for her performance as Nancy Barlett in Roseanne, Sandra Bernhard is a multi-talented actress, comedian, singer, and author. She first gained notoriety for her work as a stand-up comedian before starring in Martin Scorsese’s’ The King of Comedy in 1983. She was listed as number 97 on Comedy Central’s list of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians of all time. In 1998, Bernhard gave birth to her daughter Cicely Yasin Bernhard. 

Bernhard has not revealed who her daughter’s father is and the secret is closely held by only a few close confidantes.

Bernhard, who is an avid supporter of gay rights, now raises her daughter with her longtime partner, screenwriter Sara Switzer.

Whoever Cicely’s father is, he must be where she gets her looks from because she looks almost nothing like her mother.

Dr. Phil

Phil Calvin McGraw, better known as Dr. Phil, has enjoyed a very successful career. The psychologist turned television personality has been the host of the syndicated show Dr. Phil since 2002.

When he was just 20 years old, Phil married a woman named Debbie Higgins McCall. The two were married for just 3 years before the marriage was annulled in 1973. Shortly after that, McGraw met and married Robin Jo Jameson in 1976. The couple have been together for 42 years and have two children together, Jay McGraw, 38, and Jordan McGraw, 32.

Both of Dr. Phil’s children went into show business. Jay, who is now an executive producer for the TV show The Doctors, looks a lot like his father, but Jordan, who is a musician in the band Hundred Handed, bears very little resemblance.

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