In 1986, Bette Midler welcomed a baby girl into the world with her husband, Martin von Haselberg. These days, their daughter, Sophie von Haselberg, is forging her own path in the entertainment industry thanks to the fact that she inherited both her mother's talent and looks. Honestly, in Midler's daughter, you can see the same eyes, nose, cheeks, smile, fair hair ... the list goes on!
However, Sophie initially resisted one similarity between them. "I tried not to become an actor," the younger von Haselberg admitted to Town & Country in 2017. She also explained that her mother tried to dissuade her from going into show business, saying, "My mom, when I was a kid, would tell me, 'Save yourself.'"
Despite her mother's warnings, the actress — who's appeared on TV shows like House of Cards, American Crime Story, and American Princess — told T&C, "I always knew it was what I would end up doing." She explained, "I tried to focus on other things for a long time, but eventually I wanted it so badly that I couldn't anymore. I didn't want to go through life being miserable because I couldn't do the one thing I wanted to do."
In the end, Midler was able to offer more advice, per InStyle, telling her daughter to "create [her] own work, and not just to do the projects that other people involve [her] in," which has surely helped Sophie shaped her own identity.
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