HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARY-KATE AND ASHLEY OLSEN: 5 FUN FACTS YOU PROBABLY DON’T KNOW ABOUT THEM

The Olsen twins are celebrating 36 years today, and you surely can’t think of a moment in your childhood that doesn’t coincide with theirs. But there’s more, we’ve seen them transform from baby actresses, then producers and finally designers and fashion icons-there was a time in the early 2010s when on every prestigious red carpet you just waited for them to arrive. In short, like the Olsens, no one ever has. Because being a baby-star is easy in the United States, holding up the role without getting lost along the way, however, is a different kettle of fish.

Mary-Kate and Ashley are successful entrepreneurs, paparazzi-savvy and highly regarded even for the fashion brand they founded in 2006, The Row, so much so that they received the Council of Fashion Designers Award as designer of the year in 2012 and 2015 while in 2014, 2018 and 2019 for accessories. In October 2012, Mary-Kate and Ashley won WSJ magazine’s Innovator of The Year award.