Actress Liv Tyler and mannequin Mia Tyler, the daughters of iconic Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler, first realized they have been associated at their dad’s headlining live performance.
Liv was born to former Playboy Playmate Bebe Buell in July 1977 and for the early a part of her life, she believed Utopia singer Todd Rundgren was her organic father.
Rundgren signed Liv’s delivery certificates and helped elevate her. However the “Armageddon” star didn’t study the reality about Tyler, 77, being her organic father till she was 9 years outdated.
Mia, the kid of Steven and his second ex-wife, publicist Cyrinda Foxe, was born in December 1978, a yr after Liv.
Tyler’s two oldest kids appeared on a latest episode of the “Sibling Revelry With Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson” podcast. Liv and Mia recalled how they first met at an Aerosmith and Weapons N’ Roses present.
“I bear in mind there have been no children backstage, so we performed laborious that night time,” stated Mia, who was nonetheless elementary college age on the time of that first interplay along with her half-sister.
She continued, “And we have been at this VIP space, outdoors of the inexperienced rooms, and we have been simply doing our 8 and 9-year-old factor, and this fan girl got here up and he or she was like, ‘Oh my god, you women are so cute. Are you guys sisters?’”
On the time, Steven and Aerosmith have been on their Everlasting Trip Tour in October 1987 in assist of the band’s “Everlasting Trip” album. The worldwide trek ran by means of September 1988, with Weapons N’ Roses serving as a gap act for choose dates.
“I simply bear in mind standing there watching them play, wanting and seeing this woman who regarded precisely like me. Like, we actually had the identical outfit on. We each had perms, like spiral perms, pink frosty lipstick,” Liv Tyler informed the Hudsons.
She continued, “We have been each sporting an Aerosmith live performance T-shirt with black leggings and Reebok high-top sneakers. I regarded and I used to be like, wait, that’s me. It was actually bizarre. I used to be actually like wanting within the mirror, seeing double.”
In line with Mia, Weapons N’ Roses lead singer Axl Rose devoted their hit file “Candy Little one O’ Mine” to her on the present, which led to Liv asking her mother a tough query.
“I checked out my mother, and he or she simply began crying. My mother was bawling, and I used to be like, ‘Is Steven my dad?’ and he or she simply burst,” Liv acknowledged. “She took me to a bench and we sat on it within the out of doors amphitheater, and he or she informed me the entire story in essentially the most honest, stunning method.”
Instagram customers weighed in on Liv and Mia’s revelation.
“His genes are so robust. Simply once I thought Liv regarded identical to him, then right here’s this sister that appears much more like him lol,” one commenter posted.
Likewise, a fan declared, “Steven Tyler’s genes will need to have pulled laborious, as a result of they don’t have the identical mom and look almost equivalent.”
Somebody on the Meta-owned social networking app additionally exclaimed, “They appear like twins!” with the same remark studying, “They appear a lot alike.”
In response to Mia and Liv’s unconventional sibling connection, one Instagram poster wrote, “I like when messy fathers’ children discover themselves in a position to create a powerful bond between them.”
Steven Tyler has two extra grownup kids apart from Liv and Mia. The Grammy Award-winning musician has a daughter named Chelsea Anna Tyler together with his then-wife Teresa Barrick.
Chelsea was born in March 1989. One half of the electronic-soul duo KANEHOLLER was adopted by her youthful brother, Taj Tallarico, in January 1991. Taj and Chelsea share the identical dad and mom.
In 2017, Steven and Liv discovered extra details about their household historical past whereas showing on the American model of the “Who Do You Assume You Are?” family tree docuseries. It seems the Tylers have Black ancestry.
“We traced my household tree again to my 4 instances great-grandfather, Robert Elliott, who’s your great-great-great-grandfather. Robert Elliott was half African-American,” Liv revealed to her dad on this system.
The Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame and Songwriters Corridor of Fame inductee responded, “I knew it. Thanks, God. I all the time felt akin to Black folks, all the time,” earlier than later including, “I felt it my entire life.”