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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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#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
#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
#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!
#8
My uncle was Loki’s stunt double
#9
I am related to Bach. Like the composer. My whole family is ridiculously musically talented
#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)
#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
#15
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 😂
#18
My aunt dated Brad Pitt in college, and dumped him
#19
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
#22
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.
#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
#27
My aunt made the panda express logo?? 😭
#28
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
#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
#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!
#36
Nobody ever believes me but I got a great uncle who works or worked at area 51
#40
My aunt got asked to be Queen Latifah's personal chef and said no 😔
#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.
#43
My great grandfather was the richest man in Vietnam and post master general before the war
#44
My cousins dad owns Crumbl Cookies
#45
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?
#46
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
#48
I'm related to John Quincy Adams and Ozzy Osbourne has been in my house
#50
My mum’s cousin was one of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims
#51
My aunt got asked out by Ice Cube and dumped him
#53
My uncle is THE Joe Anderson
#55
My cousin is the guy who made THE and they were roommates 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
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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. 🥶)
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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.
Beautifullybroken 3 months ago
My "godfather" is Mike Tyson, I have videos of being in his limo going for ice cream when I was about 5 and a picture of him with my dad and uncle and dad's best friend after one of his fights
Ellinor she/they/elle 3 months ago
One of my ancestors was on one of the expeditions of the "Pourquoi Pas ?" to Antarctica.
Chris the Bobcat 3 months ago
Davy Crockett is a cousin. His grandfather and the progenitor of my line were brothers. Minor thing, but when I lived in Texas, people thought it was cool. And my maternal grandfather played guitar and ukulele in the live band for NBC Radio Network in Atlanta before WWII.
zerofoxgiven 3 months ago (edited)
My Mom is a 2 time Archery World Champion, and a Hot Air Balloon racing world Champion. My Dad is a multiple time Air Rally Flying European Champion. I won 3 Archery European Championships and when I was 13 I set a world record no one could beat in 16 years (I check regulalry lol)
Nathan Shipman 3 months ago
According to my Grandmother (Father's Mother) her 8th Great Grandmother was the last princess of the Cherokee tribe. When the U.S. Military (shamefully) sent the Cherokee and other tribes down the trail of tears, the tribe's royal family, some other heirarchs, and a few other tribe members escaped into the mountains of North Carolina, and eventually, founded what is now the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Tribe and Reservation!
Melanie Linehan 3 months ago
My dad received one of the first limb reattachment that didn't fail. My mom work with Ted Kennedy on the ADA.
Lupita Nyong'heaux 3 months ago
lionel richie had a huge crush on my first cousin when they were in college. she wasn't at all interested at the time. she has come to regret that decision, as they were still in college when he and some friends formed the commodores, and the rest is history. we still tease her about it on occasion. Lol
Kabuki Kitsune 3 months ago
From 1960 until some time around 1968, my aunt was J. Edgar Hoover's personal secretary. In that she performed 99.9% of the typing and dictation jobs that Hoover had.
Zephyr343 3 months ago
My grandma dated Ray Genet. A mountaineering legend from Alaska (the book "minus 148" is based on one of his climbs.) She set up his trip to climb Mt. Everest in which he didn't return. About 8 years ago, I found a postcard for sale from an Ebay seller in Estonia that all of the climbers in that group signed. I gave it to my grandma and she broke down in tears. Now that she has passed, I have the postcard again and I am trying to track down Ray's son in Alaksa and give it to him since it truly belongs to him.
UKGrandad 3 months ago (edited)
Only one real claim to fame in my family. One of my maternal grandmother's cousins was Percy Shaw, inventor of the 'Cat's Eyes' reflectors used on roads. He got the idea when he saw a cat's eyes reflecting his headlights while driving one night. Few roads were lit at the time and headlamps weren't very powerful and struggled to light up the road markings, and he figured that having reflecting glass balls along the centre of the road would make night driving a lot safer.
UKGrandad 3 months ago
'My family and I'. Come on, m'lady, you know better than that 😉
Load More Replies... 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.
Beautifullybroken 3 months ago
My "godfather" is Mike Tyson, I have videos of being in his limo going for ice cream when I was about 5 and a picture of him with my dad and uncle and dad's best friend after one of his fights
Ellinor she/they/elle 3 months ago
One of my ancestors was on one of the expeditions of the "Pourquoi Pas ?" to Antarctica.
Chris the Bobcat 3 months ago
Davy Crockett is a cousin. His grandfather and the progenitor of my line were brothers. Minor thing, but when I lived in Texas, people thought it was cool. And my maternal grandfather played guitar and ukulele in the live band for NBC Radio Network in Atlanta before WWII.
zerofoxgiven 3 months ago (edited)
My Mom is a 2 time Archery World Champion, and a Hot Air Balloon racing world Champion. My Dad is a multiple time Air Rally Flying European Champion. I won 3 Archery European Championships and when I was 13 I set a world record no one could beat in 16 years (I check regulalry lol)
Nathan Shipman 3 months ago
According to my Grandmother (Father's Mother) her 8th Great Grandmother was the last princess of the Cherokee tribe. When the U.S. Military (shamefully) sent the Cherokee and other tribes down the trail of tears, the tribe's royal family, some other heirarchs, and a few other tribe members escaped into the mountains of North Carolina, and eventually, founded what is now the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Tribe and Reservation!
Melanie Linehan 3 months ago
My dad received one of the first limb reattachment that didn't fail. My mom work with Ted Kennedy on the ADA.
Lupita Nyong'heaux 3 months ago
lionel richie had a huge crush on my first cousin when they were in college. she wasn't at all interested at the time. she has come to regret that decision, as they were still in college when he and some friends formed the commodores, and the rest is history. we still tease her about it on occasion. Lol
Kabuki Kitsune 3 months ago
From 1960 until some time around 1968, my aunt was J. Edgar Hoover's personal secretary. In that she performed 99.9% of the typing and dictation jobs that Hoover had.
Zephyr343 3 months ago
My grandma dated Ray Genet. A mountaineering legend from Alaska (the book "minus 148" is based on one of his climbs.) She set up his trip to climb Mt. Everest in which he didn't return. About 8 years ago, I found a postcard for sale from an Ebay seller in Estonia that all of the climbers in that group signed. I gave it to my grandma and she broke down in tears. Now that she has passed, I have the postcard again and I am trying to track down Ray's son in Alaksa and give it to him since it truly belongs to him.
UKGrandad 3 months ago (edited)
Only one real claim to fame in my family. One of my maternal grandmother's cousins was Percy Shaw, inventor of the 'Cat's Eyes' reflectors used on roads. He got the idea when he saw a cat's eyes reflecting his headlights while driving one night. Few roads were lit at the time and headlamps weren't very powerful and struggled to light up the road markings, and he figured that having reflecting glass balls along the centre of the road would make night driving a lot safer.
UKGrandad 3 months ago
'My family and I'. Come on, m'lady, you know better than that 😉
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