1986.

with my birthday rapidly approaching and my affinity for looking up useless facts on the internet i recently completed a google search of "famous people born in 1986." i really have no idea why except for the fact that i was curious who has been on this earth the same amount of time i have and somehow they've managed to become household names and i haven't.

some of them i already knew (the olson twins, amanda bynes, lindsay lohan, robert pattinson) but some were surprising. mostly because i thought they were older than me but it's fine, i'm not annoyed at all that we're the same age and they're more accomplished than me. don't even get me started on people younger than me that somehow figured it out before i did.

anyway, here were the surprises of the bunch:

lady gaga.

 maybe it was the crazy costumes and heavy make up but i definitely would have guessed that gaga was older than me. turns out she's a couple months younger. 

brittany snow.

i think it's just because i feel like she's been around forever. 

lena dunham. 

she's so outspoken i figured she was solidly in her 30's. also she kinda

has a mom haircut so maybe that played into it? 

florence welch.

she doesn't look old but she does look like she's seen some life. 

maybe i'm just jealous of her powerhouse vocals. 

mischa barton.

another classic case of "she's been around forever."

and she was on a show that i probably wouldn't have been allowed to watch if we had had that channel so she just seemed older and wiser in the ways of the world. 

so there you have it. all of those ladies are the same age as me and have accomplished so much more that i thought they were years older than me. i hope that florence and i would have been friends if we had been in the same class. 

xo