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Every family has a story that gets passed down beyond the dinner table. From long careers to exciting artistic projects and major athletic achievements, certain relatives cement their legacy for generations to come.
And that's exactly what TikTok user Livy_mp3 tapped into when she asked on the platform, "Tell me your most insane family flex, and I don't mean, 'My aunt was on TV once,' I’m talking totally mind-blowing and absurd."
The prompt struck a chord, racking up 23 million views and 223K comments, with people eager to share their proudest stories.
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#1
My mom has two Olympic gold medals😛(Kristine Andersen)
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#2
My grandparents escaped North Korea
#3
My Great Great Grandmother was the one who got to call the president to tell him the war was over! (WW2)
#4
My great great uncle is the original voice of Donald Duck
Huddo's sister 3 months ago
My uncles name is Donald, so my brother and I always called him Donald Duck, especially because he could do the voice. Now he just gets called Don, which is pretty boring :)
#5
My grandmother was one of the first nine women that went to Harvard with Ruth Bater Ginsberg (they were friends too)
#6
My dad survived 9/11
Anna Drever 3 months ago
My sister and brother in law were supposed to go up that day but instead went the day before. They have their tickets framed. As you would.
Mel in Georgia 3 months ago
I have a picture of my son who visited my brother who worked in NYC atop the Twin Towers - it's dated 8/30/11. Horrible to think of those just visiting to have this happen to them. So many stories of chance involved.
#7
Bob Ross was a close family friend and one of his paintings was for my grandpa
Burgermeister Meisterburger 3 months ago (edited)
My Granddaddy was Rudy Faircloth. He was the assistant of Bayard Wootten. (pioneer in women’s photography and the first woman in the national guard.) He wrote a book about Ernie Pyle called Typewriter Soldier and was a photographer for the ap for 25 years. He covered a lot before during and after segregation. Posters of his work are available online. He was close personal friends with Margaret Mitchell. He was also hit by a cab in Atlanta and ended up with a wooden leg. He lived to be 92 and I miss him every day. RIP Granddaddy!
Kit Black 3 months ago
Your Granddaddy is one of the coolest people mentioned on this page!
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My uncle was Loki’s stunt double
#9
I am related to Bach. Like the composer. My whole family is ridiculously musically talented
Michelle C 3 months ago (edited)
OP means that he or she is related to Johann Sebastian Bach and was giving an example of who is in that family. Another example: I am a fourth-great-grandchild of Edgar Allan Poe’s adoptive father and distant cousin, John Allan. In such a case, I might say I am related to the Galt-Allan family of Scotland- (think) like Edgar Allan Poe or John Galt.
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#10
My cousin is a 4 time Olympian and won a bronze medal in 2024
#11
My cousin is Neil Armstrong (shoutout i got the blue eyes from that side of the family)
#12
My dead uncle directed Sesame Street
#13
My grandpa was good friends with Obama and we got Christmas cards for 7-8 years
#14
My great great grandmother is grandmama in the original Adam’s family
Adrianna Wyld 3 months ago
I doubt this also. Blossom Rock played grandmama. In real life Blossom Rock had no children.
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Entirely because of drunk driving my grandfather is the reason you cannot drive lawnmowers on the road in some city in Oklahoma I forgot the name of
Panda Kicki 3 months ago
My dad had a frek accident in the army with a gun that split his lip. He was bored and did the whole paper work reporting it, making all new instruction book containing a sentence about how to avoid this one in a million accident 😂
Michelle C 3 months ago
Is this man George Jones by chance? I have to admit that was very clever of him, even though it was completely unsafe!
#16
My great uncle invented the digital camera
#17
Before Green Day was famous they opened for my dad’s old band (Agent Orange)
#18
My aunt dated Brad Pitt in college, and dumped him
amy lee 3 months ago
He seems like a total *french shower* cheats on Jen with Angelina and she files charges against him for laying hands on their adopted child. But people are too busy hyperventilating over his looks to actually notice.
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Nina 3 months ago
Never saw the appeal either, only in 'the devil's own' he was a bit attractive to me.
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My dad worked on Coraline
#20
Our cat went missing for two years and we thought a dead bunny in the road was her so we buried it and she randomly came home 2 years later and we were on the news
#21
Fergie is my auntie and we still make fun of her for the anthem
Lynne 3 months ago
Don't make fun of someone who tried something you didn't. Yep, it was superbad but she gave it a chance.
Stacie B 3 months ago
It was a disrespectful way she did the anthem that was the problem. And she was a professional singer so she knew better.
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Grandpa had a beer w Freddie Mercury before he was famous. He said he would go watch him preform at this local bar all the time. Then a few years later saw him preforming on TV
Anne Roberts 3 months ago (edited)
For all the super intelligent people discussing a wrongly spelled word - don't you have anything better to do? How wonderful for you that you have NEVER misspelled a word, or made a grammatical error. How wonderful for you to be so perfect! On the subject of "nothing better to do", you obviously have too much time on your hands. People don't typically like know-it-alls.
UKGrandad 3 months ago (edited)
They don't like sanctimonious browbeating, either, but here we are. Besides, we're not discussing a wrongly-spelt word; we're discussing a harmless joke based on a wrongly-spelt word. EDIT: oh, look, downvoted. Oops, did I touch a nerve?
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UKGrandad 3 months ago
Of course there is. It's one of those words that used to be hyphenated - pre-form - but is now a single word. The individual parts of flat-pack furniture or model kits are preformed.
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#24
My mum is on one of the old book covers of the Vampire Diaries
#25
My dad kidnapped his 7 kids and drove us from BC down through the US to Texas. We were missing for close to 6 months. June to December. Big police raid when they finally found us. We were flown back home first class and reunited with our mom just before Christmas.
#26
My mums childhood best friend is married to Hugh Grant
Chris the Bobcat 3 months ago
Hugh Grant... the Englishman who went up a boulevard and came in an alley.
#27
My aunt made the panda express logo?? 😭
UKGrandad 3 months ago
Is this one telling us or asking us? Either way, what's with the sobbing emoji?
Jay Cee 3 months ago
Perhaps they're from Australia or New Zealand? You know with that upturned inflection at end of a sentence. As in "My name is John? I come from Sydney? That's in Australia?" like he isn't quite sure.
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There is NO record of my grandma’s grandpa. no gravestone, no proof of life, and we’ve searched hard. family legend says he was an outlaw in the wild west before he bought land in MO with cash, chose a last name, and settled down
Harry Gondalf 3 months ago
same for my great-grandpa. He and the family emigrated from "Io-way" in the 1880's to homestead in Oregon, but no records in Iowa. School records, tax, voter rolls, gravestones, ... nothing
#29
My mom met Johnny Depp twice in New York at a bar, and the second time he recognized her from the first time
#30
My Aunt Angel went to school w Eminem. He had a crush on her and would call her angel baby, later on when he got popular in music she went to one of his meet in greets and asked for him to sign to Angel baby
#31
My dad has like a license for everything so we can literally do anything like fly helicopters, sail boats, and legally own a tank
Tropical Tarot 3 months ago (edited)
My wife actually did own a Sherman tank. She got divorced and moved into a place where she couldn't keep the tank so her father took all of her military memorabilia. Turns out he sold it last year and didn't tell her but he put a new roof on the house so fair enough.
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Jay Cee 3 months ago
Ham radio licence? Licence to practice medicine? Licence to practice law? Licence to buy an AR-15? Don't know about the US but you don't need a licence to own a tank in the UK. You'll need the appropriate licence to drive it on a public highway and you might need a shotgun licence if the main gun hasn't been deactivated (smooth bore barrel you see).
UKGrandad 3 months ago
Drive one? With all that over-compensating going on it's likely he can barely achieve one.
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Tom Brincefield 3 months ago
If it bothers you so much, nobody is forcing you to read this site.
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#33
My grandpa was a comic book artist for marvel and DC but died too young to be recognized
#34
My uncle animates for American Dad and he threw a peanut at Toby Maguire on the set of Spiderman once
Just a boring person 3 months ago (edited)
Imagine a crossover between Spiderman and American Dad! Like an actual one where an episode is based on them!
#35
My grandma lived in the same trailer park as Eminem’s grandma
Spencers slave no more 3 months ago
Lived, past tense, and, yes, she and her family, including Eminem, lived in various trailer parks as he grew up.
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Nobody ever believes me but I got a great uncle who works or worked at area 51
#37
My uncle won MasterChef
#38
My grandma was at the concert that Ozzy bit the head off the bat 😎
michael reid 3 months ago
It was already dead and apparently, had been for some time
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#40
My aunt got asked to be Queen Latifah's personal chef and said no 😔
#41
Michael Jackson is my mom's cousin
Bi.Felicia 3 months ago
So wouldn't your mom also be cousin's with Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon, Rebbie, Randy, LeToya and Janet?
#42
Not a flex but! my uncle is banned from Poland. if he goes to Poland he will get instantly arrested. Bare in mind, bro is Polish.
arthbach 3 months ago
I knew someone whose brothers were in a similar situation. The story goes the brothers had been born abroad to Scottish parents. They had joint citizenship. When they turned 18 they were eligible for conscription, despite not having lived in the country of their birth for 6 years. If they went back there, they would be detained, and arrested for not having met their conscription requirements. They would either have to serve in the military, or be sent to prision.
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My great grandfather was the richest man in Vietnam and post master general before the war
#44
My cousins dad owns Crumbl Cookies
Laura Gillette 3 months ago
Not necessarily. I don't have any first cousins because my mom was an only child and my dad's brother never had kids. So all my cousins are either second cousins or first-cousins-once-removed (my parents' first cousins, and their kids). So, if I said "my cousin's dad" it would mean my second cousin's dad, who is married to my mom's first cousin.
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Happy Onion 3 months ago
Either way, they don't know how to bake cookies. Had them twice and both were underbaked lumps of tasteless dough.
UKGrandad 3 months ago (edited)
Depends on the state: you know what some of those Southern families are like 😉 EDIT: Some people just can't take a joke.
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My grandma was the first American woman to be arrested in Edinburgh
arthbach 3 months ago
I find this one really difficult to believe. There is someone alive today who claims their grandmother was the first American woman to be arrested in Edinburgh. Even if the person is 80 years old, and their grandma was 60 years older than them. That takes us about 120 years (assuming a woman is someone over the age of 20-ish). They are saying that from 1776 to to 1906 not a single American woman was arrested in Edinburgh?
Tom Brincefield 3 months ago
How often do you think American women were traveling to Edinburgh in the 1800s and committing crimes there?
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My aunt has worked for Paris Hilton and is always invited to Dnoop Dog's bday parties
Mel in Georgia 3 months ago
I bet Snoop's parties are awesome - and hope that Martha Stewart would be included!
#47
My dad got accused of stealing a 300+lbs tortoise
Batwench 3 months ago
I’m impressed. Lifting equipment must have been used.
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I'm related to John Quincy Adams and Ozzy Osbourne has been in my house
#49
My aunt slept with Orlando Bloom 🤗
#50
My mum’s cousin was one of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims
Sara Frazer 3 months ago
Ew, why is this a "flex"?? This recent glorifying/romanticizing of serial kíllers needs to STOP. SO GROSS.
#51
My aunt got asked out by Ice Cube and dumped him
#52
My mom is Kim K’s cousin! and my aunty preformed with Michael Jackson
UKGrandad 3 months ago
No, preformed. They were made side-by-side in moulds.
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My uncle is THE Joe Anderson
#54
My nana saw Billy Joel in the bar and she saw him make up piano man
tameson 3 months ago
Well, he was a piano man at a bar for six month and the song is based on that experience. But that still doesn't make that sentence make sense.
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My cousin is the guy who made THE and they were roommates vine
Bi.Felicia 3 months ago
No way, their cousin is the guy who made THE! Seriously, I don't understand this one, maybe the cousin created Vine?
#56
My cousin's the Hawk Tuah girl
#57
My mom met Selena Gomez in a mental rehabilitation center and when I went to visit my mom I saw her there
Scarlett O'Hara's Ghost 3 months ago
And you're a trash human being for 1. Thinking this is newsworthy and/or a flex and 2. For posting it on the internet for the world. Someone health information is personal and you have no right telling anyone about it. I'm not letting BP off the hook here either. You had an article earlier shaming people for posting horrible things about a young girls skin condition and shaming them all about it and here you are doing it
Tom Brincefield 3 months ago
Folks, Selena Gomez has been very open about her mental health issues (she revealed her bipolar diagnosis in 2020) and going to rehab to help deal with them. She has done this to help remove the stigma of seeking needed help. Here you folks are, helping to reinforce that stigmatization.
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Zero Costa 3 months ago
hmm my dad was a project manager on the Eureka tower in Melbourne Australia, which was the tallest tower in the southern hemisphere at the time. does that count 🤔
Marnie 3 months ago (edited)
The only claim to any fame in my family is that my son over 13 years ago was the highest scoring person of his class in World of Warcraft. He had people contacting him daily to ask him to join their guilds. But most of them spent way too much time on it and he didn't want to dedicate that much time and he liked his teammates. He was very serious about it (like he is about everything he does -- he wants to do it right). But he's not an obsessive. He checked a few years ago and he STILL had the highest score. To me, it's like he's a gold medalist where nobody has ever beaten his score. Nobody I ever tell about this - which arguably is not that many people - is ever even the LEAST bit impressed by this :-(
Tamiko 3 months ago
As a fellow WoW player, I'm d**n impressed. Also it's great to see a parent that's proud of a in game achievement for once.
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Justine Tyler 3 months ago (edited)
My dad was a chauffeur in the UK and drove Jackie Kennedy Onassis while she was there. He even made a bet with her that he could lose the paparazzi. He won.
Sue User 3 months ago
My dad fought in theee wars for USA. WW2, Korea and Vietnam. He fought in The Battle of the Bulge. He is burried in Arlington National Cemetary.
Joey Wood 3 months ago
If the records I've found are correct, I'm descended from James I of Scotland.
Michelle C 3 months ago
Your family ennobled mine to a degree, then. George III or IV of England granted letters patent to, among other prominent Scots of the time, John Allan, Esquire. Yup, that John Allan is the same one who adopted Edgar Allan Poe and is also distant cousin to said adopted son through Edgar Allan Poe’s biological father, David Poe, Junior. The three men shared Galt heritage, although I am not sure if David Poe and Edgar Allan Poe had Galt through David Poe’s father or mother. I do know is that John Allan’s mother was a Galt and both the Galt and Allan families had other noble heritage tracing back to the 1300s. The earliest recorded ancestor of whom I am aware is a John Galt knighted in Denmark circa 1370. I do not know how I am related to this John Galt, however. What a small world!
Load More Replies... Michelle C 3 months ago
Yup. I consider real flexes as breaking the cycle like my maternal third-great-grandfather Charles Allen and paternal great-grandmother Mary Trudnak did. (Some branches of my family have long histories of dysfunction. For example, I am a distant cousin to Kirk Douglas through my paternal grandfather. 🥶)
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 3 months ago (edited)
Mine is more of a local story, not really news worthy, but means a lot to my family. My dad has the same name as an ex-footy player and wore the same number when he played football. Many years later, the family went to an event for that footbal team and were featured on the news. They were very happy o meet the player with my dad's name. They also met another player, who had previously bought a painting from my brother. Both things happened because my other brother was connected with a respite home (he was disabled) and they volunteered us for the photo op. Oh and my mum also dated another ex-footballer, before he played footy.
Zero Costa 3 months ago
hmm my dad was a project manager on the Eureka tower in Melbourne Australia, which was the tallest tower in the southern hemisphere at the time. does that count 🤔
Marnie 3 months ago (edited)
The only claim to any fame in my family is that my son over 13 years ago was the highest scoring person of his class in World of Warcraft. He had people contacting him daily to ask him to join their guilds. But most of them spent way too much time on it and he didn't want to dedicate that much time and he liked his teammates. He was very serious about it (like he is about everything he does -- he wants to do it right). But he's not an obsessive. He checked a few years ago and he STILL had the highest score. To me, it's like he's a gold medalist where nobody has ever beaten his score. Nobody I ever tell about this - which arguably is not that many people - is ever even the LEAST bit impressed by this :-(
Tamiko 3 months ago
As a fellow WoW player, I'm d**n impressed. Also it's great to see a parent that's proud of a in game achievement for once.
Load More Replies... Justine Tyler 3 months ago (edited)
My dad was a chauffeur in the UK and drove Jackie Kennedy Onassis while she was there. He even made a bet with her that he could lose the paparazzi. He won.
Sue User 3 months ago
My dad fought in theee wars for USA. WW2, Korea and Vietnam. He fought in The Battle of the Bulge. He is burried in Arlington National Cemetary.
Joey Wood 3 months ago
If the records I've found are correct, I'm descended from James I of Scotland.
Michelle C 3 months ago
Your family ennobled mine to a degree, then. George III or IV of England granted letters patent to, among other prominent Scots of the time, John Allan, Esquire. Yup, that John Allan is the same one who adopted Edgar Allan Poe and is also distant cousin to said adopted son through Edgar Allan Poe’s biological father, David Poe, Junior. The three men shared Galt heritage, although I am not sure if David Poe and Edgar Allan Poe had Galt through David Poe’s father or mother. I do know is that John Allan’s mother was a Galt and both the Galt and Allan families had other noble heritage tracing back to the 1300s. The earliest recorded ancestor of whom I am aware is a John Galt knighted in Denmark circa 1370. I do not know how I am related to this John Galt, however. What a small world!
Load More Replies... Michelle C 3 months ago
Yup. I consider real flexes as breaking the cycle like my maternal third-great-grandfather Charles Allen and paternal great-grandmother Mary Trudnak did. (Some branches of my family have long histories of dysfunction. For example, I am a distant cousin to Kirk Douglas through my paternal grandfather. 🥶)
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 3 months ago (edited)
Mine is more of a local story, not really news worthy, but means a lot to my family. My dad has the same name as an ex-footy player and wore the same number when he played football. Many years later, the family went to an event for that footbal team and were featured on the news. They were very happy o meet the player with my dad's name. They also met another player, who had previously bought a painting from my brother. Both things happened because my other brother was connected with a respite home (he was disabled) and they volunteered us for the photo op. Oh and my mum also dated another ex-footballer, before he played footy.
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