Enlarge Image. Along with super-sized Starbucks cups and bug-eyed sunglasses, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are famous for their red carpet facial expressions: deadly serious, with sucked-in cheeks and nary a hint of a smile.
It's not that the billionaire twins, who are celebrating their 32nd birthday on June 13, hate going to glamorous fashion parties or posing for photographers -- quite the opposite, actually!
They just have a very unique way of showing their enthusiasm. Here they are having an absolute blast at the Met Gala -- you just can't tell! Don't let those sad sack dresses fool you -- we've never seen two stars happier to be on a red carpet! Like, don't invite them to be in your bridal party unless you want to taint your photos with a whole lot of scowling and haute-couture floral print ponchos. However, once in a while, they slip up and genuinely showcase something resembling true human feelings, like elation or — oh!
We know that seems difficult to believe, especially if you look back on their entire acting career. Hold on tight, though, because we have the proof. Click through our gallery to see the Olsen twins deigning to show some real emotion — and in public!
She looks not only happy, but even threw a little bit of suprise in there. Whoa, really changing it up, Ash! Well, ok, that's mean. The Olsen twins were asked by Elle to recommend some Christmas gift ideas in Perhaps unsurprisingly, they exclusively suggested items from their boutique Los Angeles shop, The Row.
The real shock came with the sticker prices on some of the items, or more accurately, the lack of prices, since everything was listed as "price upon request," whatever that means. It means very expensive. Exactly how much do the Olsen twins expect someone to pay for a rare Van Cleef lighter or a deck of vintage playing cards?
Are the items in their shop actually worth their mysterious, but surely exorbitant prices, or are the Olsen twins just trying to give Gwyneth Paltrow and her Annual GOOP Gift Guide — with its similarly market-priced personal submarine — a run for its money? Portraying Michelle Tanner on Full House was undeniably the starting point for all of the Olsen twins' fame, but when the cast signed on to be in the sequel series, Fuller House , the Olsen twins were the only ones to decline.
While it's understandable that they want to take their lives in a different direction, it doesn't seem too much to ask for the Olsens to at least make a cameo as a nod to the fans and co-stars that cemented their lives of leisure and luxury. The reclusive duo did sort of share its reasons for skipping the reunion. According to show producer Bob Boyett, "Ashley said, 'I have not been in front of a camera since I was 17, and I don't feel comfortable acting,'" and "Mary-Kate said, It would have to be me because Ash doesn't want to do it.
But the timing is so bad for us. Amazingly, Full House and Fuller House creator Jeff Franklin doesn't consider the snub a burned bridge, although he did tell Us Weekly that after three years of rebuffed invitations to join the show, he's done asking. The door is open. Actress Elizabeth Olsen took a bit longer than her older sisters to breakout as an actress — 21 years to be exact.
But taking time before diving into the acting world isn't the only difference between Elizabeth and the twins. Where Mary-Kate and Ashley are reclusive and cagey, Elizabeth is outgoing, vivacious, and comes off like an extremely well-adjusted regular person who just happens to act really, really well. Baby sister's resume also creates a significant difference between her and her sisters.
Elizabeth never dabbled in cheesy tween fare. Elizabeth is also no stranger to the red carpet and interviews, and she displays a remarkable savvy about how to navigate A-List fame while maintaining her personal life. It's something that I watched people doing well growing up. Clearly, she wasn't referencing Mary-Kate and Ashley, who famously, and hilariously failed at hiding from the paparazzi so often that artist Laura Collins created a whole exhibit around their antics. We know we're going to sound like nagging parents here, but seriously, Mary-Kate and Ashley, would it kill you to be a little more like your sister?
There are few details about the notoriously press-shy Mary-Kate's wedding, but like many things in the eccentric twins' life, one tidbit leaked from the nuptials left everyone scratching their heads. Page Six reported that a source said there were "bowls and bowls filled with cigarettes, and everyone smoked the whole night," which is bizarre, especially since it took place in Manhattan, where for years smokers have been shunned into shameful, huddled groups as far away from the general public as possible.
Then again, Mary-Kate married Olivier Sarkozy, a french billionaire, so maybe the cigs and the laissez-faire attitude sort of do make sense. But what about the other details? Page Six also reported that guests, of which there were only 50, "were required to turn in their cellphones" before a cocktail reception and indoor dinner at "a private residence on 49th Street, between Second and Third avenues.
After becoming enamoured with the few details surrounding Mary-Kate's wedding, Olsen enthusiasts Viviana Olen and Matt Harkin decided to open a pop-up museum dedicated to the strange public persona of the twins.
According to a story in The Huffington Post , the venue mostly features paintings of paparazzi photos of Mary-Kate and Ashley hiding their faces, but it also has other wacky features like "a phone that only takes calls from Candace Cameron Bure offering parts on Fuller House " and a recreation of Mary-Kate's wedding tablescape of cigarettes. There's definitely a tongue-in-cheek aspect to the attraction, which is why the curators have also published a companion magazine , which is basically just photos of the paintings with funny captions: "Here we see an Olsen coming to one of two realizations: that she will have to close a car door herself for some reason or that her outfit only works sitting down.
In a profile in The New York Times about the launch of the Row — the Olsen twins' super high-end clothing store, Ashley admitted she "has never purchased anything online," while Mary-Kate bought something once "at an online auction.
The Times story includes the following descriptions about their boutique: "They convinced Masa Takayama, the renowned sushi chef, to sell them his ceramics," and "Indeed, the store feels more like a tastefully appointed manse than a traditional retail shop, its individual rooms decorated with marquee art a Basquiat here, a Borge Jorgensen sculpture there and significant furniture.
Cool, so we're guessing no clearance rack, right? Many fans have judged the women and accused them of having "daddy issues. What's even more puzzling about their changing look is that the twins don't really look all like twins anymore. Mary-Kate's face especially has been looking strikingly different, so much so that fans think she's either had plastic surgery, a drug addiction, or both. One fan even joked that MK is slowly turning into country star Willie Nelson.
We can sort of see the resemblance? The cast of Full House is notoriously close, from attending each other's weddings to regularly getting together for reunions. However, the Olsen twins are rarely in the picture and stay a good distance away from their TV family. The last time they were all reunited was in The fashion moguls didn't bother appearing in the show's revival, Fuller House , and Mary-Kate didn't even invite her former castmates to her wedding.
What gives? Back in , their fashion brand The Row sold these bizarre crocodile purses with prescription pills glued to them. Although the bag was mocked in the press, they still managed to sell a few. Both of Mary-Kate and Ashley's fashion brands tout high-end couture with nothing too flashy or eccentric, but the pill bag was definitely the weirdest thing they ever designed.
It was yet-another "hmm? It's weird to see the twins showing emotion of any kind, which is why it was strange to see Ashley getting upset at someone or something while walking the red carpet at the CFDA Awards.
Maybe she was upset that the whole process was taking too long? It's uncertain, however, we love the way Mary-Kate sadly trails behind her. Sometime around , the twins stopped smiling and started pursing their lips together instead. However, these days they've graduated to full-on glassy-eyed stares that, frankly, are a little creepy.
In fact, their smiles are so rare, whenever they do it, it becomes headline news. The twins themselves have never revealed why they don't smile.
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