1. While galore radical can't archer them apart, Mary-Kate and Ashley are not identical, but alternatively fraternal: Mary-Kate is 1 inch taller than her sister and is left-handed, portion Ashley is right-handed. (Ashley is 2 minutes older too, FYI.)

2. There was a elemental crushed Mary-Kate and Ashley jointly landed the relation of Michelle Tanner connected Full House erstwhile they were conscionable 9 months old: They didn't outcry during the audition. But that didn't mean they didn't outcry during filming, with John Stamos erstwhile admitting that helium astir got the girls fired.

"It's benignant of existent that the Olsen twins cried a lot," Stamos told reporters in 2015. "It was precise hard to get the shot." He said it's "actually 100 percent accurate" that helium tried to get them replaced: "They brought successful a mates of unattractive redheaded kids. We tried that for a portion and that didn't work." So producers summoned the Olsen twins backmost in. "And that's the story."

3. Viewers saw the twins acquisition a batch of firsts on Full House during its seven-year run, including their archetypal steps and words. Plus, they really had to deterioration dentures aboriginal connected for continuity purposes. Pro-tip if you ever privation to cognize who is playing Michelle successful scenes during the aboriginal seasons: Mary-Kate usually handled the much comedic moments, portion Ashley took connected the much melodramatic scenes. (Later connected successful their career, Mary-Kate would often instrumentality connected tomboy roles, portion Ashley would usually play the "girly-girl" type.)

"They had truthful overmuch emotion and they were adorable and they had these elephantine large bluish eyes," creator Jeff Franklin told Variety of casting the twins arsenic infants. "Every week, they were giving america thing that we mightiness person hoped for, but we ne'er truly expected, and past each kinds of amusive surprises connected apical of it."

4. After Full House, the Olsens really went connected to prima successful 2 of their ain TV bid successful summation to their uber-successful direct-to-DVD movie empire. Two Of a Kind was portion of the TGIF line-up from 1998-99, though it was canceled owed to debased ratings.

In 2002, So Little Time aired for conscionable 1 play connected Fox Family (which then became ABC Family and past Freeform), and immoderate episodes were turned into books, with 17 being released. Mary-Kate earned a Daytime Emmy information successful 2002 for Outstanding Performer successful a Children's Series for So Little Time.

5. Curious who were the Olsen twins' archetypal on-screen kisses? Just popular in Passport to Paris, which featured Mary-Kate kissing Ethan Peck, Gregory Peck's grandson, and Ashley kissing Brocker Way. 

6. When Dualstar Entertainment Group launched successful 1993, it made the past 6-year-old twins producers and owners of the accumulation institution that would merchandise each of their 47 direct-to-DVD movies and euphony video bid (including The Adventures Of...and You're Invited to...franchises). 

The films, portion successful, weren't precisely challenging, with Mary-Kate aboriginal telling W Magazine, "We didn't person to excavation excessively deep. We were playing cutesy small twins who solved mysteries. There was nary extent to immoderate of the characters. It was idiosyncratic else's thought of ourselves. It was precise overmuch people-pleasing arsenic opposed to actually, I guess, moving for it."

Of becoming CEOs astatine specified a young age, Ashley told WWD successful 2013, "We couldn't spot implicit the apical of the table. I ever looked astatine myself, adjacent arsenic a kid, arsenic a businesswoman."

Even astatine a young age, they were focused connected the bigger representation and gathering a longterm brand. "I don't deliberation it ever felt similar we were actresses," Mary-Kate explained, "because we spent truthful overmuch much of our clip not successful beforehand of the cameras, gathering a brand."

During this time, they released albums, a magazine, a covering enactment with Walmart, a cosmetics line, committee games, video games, an animated TV bid and a enactment of chamber furniture. They yet became the youngest self-made millionaires, and erstwhile they turned 18, they joined the database of the richest teenagers successful the satellite erstwhile they took afloat ownership of Dualstar. Their estimated combined net worth? Around $300 million.

While Dualstar yet unopen down, Hulu brought immoderate of their biggest releases to their streaming work successful May 2019, including Passport to Paris and Holiday successful the Sun. 

7. New York Minute, the twins' 2nd theatrical merchandise aft 1995's It Takes Two, would extremity up being Mary-Kate and Ashley's last movie together, earning a disappointing $14 cardinal erstwhile it was released successful 2004. In fact, the movie would serve as Ashley's last acting recognition ever, with Mary-Kate going connected to look successful the TV bid Weeds earlier making her last on-screen crook successful 2011's Beastly. 

"I don't similar to beryllium the halfway of attraction anymore," Ashley told Elle UK of leaving the acting world. "It doesn't mean I'm not funny successful Hollywood. I similar the mode it operates, I similar the radical who are progressive and the consciousness of possibility. But if I ever get backmost in, it's not going to beryllium arsenic an actress."

8. Pretty Little Liars prima Troian Bellisario really grew up with the twins, revealing successful an interrogation with the Huffington Post, "I grew up crossed the thoroughfare from them truthful we utilized to play each the time." They mislaid interaction erstwhile the twins moved away, but randomly reconnected with Bellisario auditioned for Billboard Dad, their 1998 movie. "I showed up connected acceptable and I came retired of my trailer, and they came retired of their trailer and it was conscionable like, 'What are you doing here!?'" she recalled to Buzzfeed. "It was truly weird."

9. In 2004, the sisters faced a large decision: Make their Saturday Night Live hosting debut oregon be their elder prom. They ended up choosing NYC's astir celebrated signifier implicit a precocious schoolhouse student's biggest night, with Mary-Kate saying, "I didn't recognize they were the aforesaid nighttime until idiosyncratic asked maine what I was going to wear. That's erstwhile I was like, 'It's the aforesaid night! Oh no, what are we going to do?' A fewer seconds later, I said, 'SNL, of course.'"

While they initially considered asking their schoolhouse if the day for prom could beryllium changed, they decided against it, with Ashley admitting, "We thought that if the tabloids got clasp of a communicative similar that, they'd ne'er fto america unrecorded it down!"

They ended up joking astir missing retired connected their prom successful their opening monologue, with Ashley saying, "We'll ne'er cognize what it's similar to thrust successful a limo and deterioration fancy dresses and person idiosyncratic bash our hair." When Mary-Kate pointed retired that's beauteous overmuch a regular occurrence for them, Ashley explained, "Yeah, but not astatine a Marriott!"

10. After the merchandise of New York Minute and their precocious schoolhouse graduation successful June 2004, it was revealed that Mary-Kate had checked successful a attraction installation for an eating disorder, which came aft her tiny framework astatine the New York Minute premiere made headlines. "This is simply a situation that Mary-Kate has made a determination to face," her rep astatine the clip told People. "This is simply a situation she volition meet."

Mary-Kate has ne'er publically spoken astir her reported eating disorder, but somewhat opened up astir seeking assistance successful 2008 interrogation with Elle magazine.

"I deliberation it's important that what anybody goes through—and I'm not saying that it's existent oregon not true—you recognize it's portion of increasing up," she said. "Everybody is going to spell done hard times. It's a portion of life. I deliberation the hardest portion to get to is that constituent of asking for assistance oregon reaching retired to different radical and being honorable with yourself."

11. In 2005, MK ended up successful a nationalist emotion triangle-turned-feud erstwhile her then-boyfriend Stavros Niarchos III left her for Paris Hilton. "[Paris and I] ever lone had bully things to accidental astir each other," she told W Magazine aft it each went down, revealing she really introduced her ex-BF and the Simple Life star. "Now I conjecture you tin archer we're not talking."

Soon aft the affair, a devastated MK made the determination to driblet retired of assemblage and determination backmost to Los Angeles. When asked by the work wherefore she was moving, she simply said, "I deliberation we tin each guess."

12. Some of MK's different large romances included Henry Winkler's son Max Winkler, David Katzenberg, who is the lad of Dreamworks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg, an lipid heir in Max Snow (also Uma Thurman's nephew), and a reported hookup with Josh Hartnett. From 2008 to 2010, she dated artist Nate Lowman.

13. Ashley besides has had her just stock of relationships implicit the years, opening with USC backmost Matt Kaplan, her archetypal superior fellow she dated when she was 15-18. She past dated her just stock of NYC nightlife figures, including Scott Sartiano and Gregg Chaitt earlier a speedy romance with Lance Armstrong, and a rumored hookup with Jared Leto. (Never confirmed, obviously.) She past dated The Hangover prima Justin Bartha for 3 years. After that, she was linked to movie manager Bennett Miller, creator George Condo, and Richard Sachs, a financier who was 28 years her senior.

Now, Ashley is joined to artist Louis Eisner, who she was first spotted with successful October 2017. The duo reportedly tied the knot successful Dec. 2022 during a backstage ceremony.

14. In 2012, Mary-Kate began dating Olivier Sarkozy, the half-brother of erstwhile French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Their 17-year property difference made headlines, but Mary-Kate wasn't each that acrophobic with the nationalist cognition astir her older man. "Everyone has an opinion," Mary-Kate told WSJ Magazine of the media attention. "I find it's amended to absorption connected what's successful beforehand of you and to support putting 1 ft successful beforehand of the other."

In November 2015, Mary-Kate and Olivier secretly wed successful beforehand of 50 adjacent friends and family, with their wedding reception becoming infamous aft the item that bowls of cigarettes acted arsenic the centerpieces. "Everyone smoked the full night," a apt raspy-voiced insider told america astatine the time.

She filed for divorcement successful May 2020.

15. The Hills prima Spencer Pratt once bragged astir selling a photograph of Mary-Kate drinking astatine a enactment erstwhile they attended the aforesaid precocious school, telling Details mag successful 2007 that helium made $50,000. In 2008, Mary-Kate would infamously picture him arsenic "wormy" and "oily" during an quality connected The Late Show with David Letterman. 

16. In the mid-aughts, the Olsen twins benignant became trend-setting and headline-making, with the New York Times infamously dubbing it "dumpster chic." They wore elephantine sunglasses, artfully baggy clothing, and carried Balenciaga bags bigger than they were arsenic they attended NYU. (Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa adjacent dressed up arsenic the sisters for Halloween 1 year.) 

The manner icons were good alert of the public's fascination with their style, with Ashley saying successful 2009, "I deliberation you're either calved with a consciousness of benignant oregon you're not. Either you attraction oregon you don't. And we emotion fashion. When we were going to NYU, I deliberation that was the archetypal clip we were alert of the powerfulness of our idiosyncratic style. Not the powerfulness of it, but the effect of it. Between the large sunglasses and the Starbucks cupful and the large sweaters, the hobo-chic thing, we were much shocked than anything."

17. Around the aforesaid time, the Olsens were seldom spotted without a Starbucks cupful successful hand. The java wasn't conscionable an accessory for the caller assemblage co-eds, it was an essential, arsenic Mary-Kate erstwhile explained to W Magazine, "When I was younger, connected weekends, my ma would marque america pancakes with our initials connected them and past a tiny cupful of coffee. I retrieve astatine 10 sneaking my ain java and pouring a ton of sweetener successful and going up to the playroom and drinking it." (Her go-to bid astatine the time, erstwhile she was downing 2 to 4 beverages a day? Either a chai latte oregon a skim latte.)

18. Some of the large stars who antecedently appeared successful Olsen duplicate movies? Will & Grace prima Eric McCormack played their dada successful Double, Double, Toil and Trouble, which besides starred Cloris Leachman. Michael Cera had a tiny relation in Switching Goals and The Walking Dead's Austin Nichols was her emotion involvement successful Holiday successful the Sun. Plus, Megan Fox played their nemesis successful Holiday successful the Sun, Sex and the City's Willie Garson grilled them arsenic a peculiar cause successful Our Lips Are Sealed, with Jason Clarke playing 1 of Australia-set villains...though helium didn't usage his existent accent for immoderate reason?  

New York Minute besides had acquainted faces, including Schitt's Creek and American Pie prima Eugene Levy, Andy Richter, Darrell Hammond, Supernatural's Jared Padalecki, Jack Osbourne and Riley Smith.

19. Since a young age, Mary-Kate has been an avid horseback rider, even going connected to thrust competitively (most precocious competing successful May 2019). "I was six erstwhile I archetypal fell successful emotion and it was with a pony named 4x4," Mary-Kate revealed successful her HITS rider profile. "Having horseback riding arsenic an outlet was ace important due to the fact that it allowed maine to person different beingness and outlet extracurricular of enactment and school."

20. In stark opposition to astir of their millennial peers, the Olsens person lone taken 1 nationalist selfie. Just one, which was successful work of a enactment work erstwhile they took implicit Sephora's Instagram relationship successful 2016. (Both sisters are societal media-free.) "First nationalist selfie ever," the brace wrote portion posing successful achromatic sunglasses and matching tops. "@ElizandJames #SephoraTakeover."

After surviving their full lives successful beforehand of the cameras, the Olsens decided to stay disconnected societal media and seldom springiness interviews, letting their apparel bash the (most of) talking for them. "When we were younger, being successful the nationalist oculus was astir portion of our relation and work – to acceptable the trends astatine that clip oregon beryllium up of fashion," Mary-Kate explained to The Edit. 

"We don't dive into that satellite [of societal media]," Ashley added. "We don't person Instagram oregon Facebook. We've stayed rather sheltered."

Still, that hasn't stopped Instagram from being obsessed with the Olsens' style. 

21. The Olsen twins are truthful backstage and paparazzi-averse that they inspired a New York City creation grounds called "The Olsen Twins Hiding From the Paparazzi," which featured artwork from Laura Collins and ran for 2 weeks successful April and May of 2016 astatine the Think 19994 Museum. Collins painted portraits of the Olsen twins hiding down an assortment of objects, including precocious extremity purses, java cups, turtlenecks and each other. 

In 2021, Mary-Kate told i-D that she and her duplicate are "discreet people," adding, "That's however we were raised."

22. When Ashley and Mary-Kate launched their high-end manner enactment The Row successful 2006, it was initially inspired by Ashley's determination to make the cleanable achromatic t-shirt. They chose the sanction The Row—"an anonymous sanction loosely derived from Savile Row, the location of British tailoring," per Vogue—to debar the stigma astir personage covering lines. 

23. In 2007, they launched their 2nd line, Elizabeth and James, and portion astir radical believed it was named aft their siblings, younger sister Elizabeth Olsen and older member James "Trent" Olsen, MK told WWD, "We wanted it to beryllium based connected a narration betwixt a young miss and a lad and archer the communicative done clothing." (A rep for the marque besides denied the study to

24. Before her breakout show in Martha Marcy May Marlene in 2011, small sister Elizabeth was really known arsenic "Lizzie" to astir early-era Olsen fans, aft she appeared successful immoderate of their earlier movies, infamously being told to "B-U-T-T out" via song. Since then, Elizabeth has go 1 of the astir sought-after actresses of her generation, joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe arsenic Scarlet Witch. 

But Elizabeth doesn't truly retrieve acting successful their straight-to-DVD movies, telling Jimmy Fallon, "the existent acquisition of doing it I don't remembers truthful much."

Elizabeth retired from acting concisely astatine property 10, yet going connected to survey it successful college, wanting to marque her ain name, adjacent if radical would amusement up astatine her dorm country due to the fact that of her celebrated older sisters. 

"Their fame made maine much determined to study. I knew I wanted to beryllium an actor, but I also didn't privation to commencement moving erstwhile I was nether 18," she said successful 2012. "These days, my sisters are chiefly an inspiration arsenic concern people, and whenever I feel similar I'm acceptable to bundle immoderate task of my own, they'll astir apt beryllium the archetypal radical I'll speech to for advice. Also, I emotion their manner lines...I practically unrecorded at their apparel company when I'm [in New York]."

25. Older member Trent (who goes by his mediate name) besides appeared successful immoderate of their earlier films and inspired the "Brother For Sale" song, but helium didn't prosecute an acting career, graduating from the movie section astatine the University of Southern California. 

While they offered to merchantability him for 50 cents successful their infamous opus astir him, Trent seemingly was netting a batch much for his celebrated sisters' autographs successful people school. "He would merchantability his sisters' autographed photos," a erstwhile classmate told Page Six successful 2011. "I decidedly bought one. We each did!"

26. Ashley whitethorn person helped Carey Mulligan onshore the relation of Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby remake successful 2013 other Leonardo DiCaprio.

"I couldn't judge what they did erstwhile I texted successful a panic astir having thing to deterioration for my audition for Gatsby," Mulligan revealed to Vogue. "I was hoping they'd nonstop maine immoderate things from The Row, but past these immense boxes arrived—Ashley's full postulation of thirties vintage dresses."

27. When Netflix rebooted Full House with the sequel series Fuller House successful 2015 with astir of the archetypal formed reprising their roles from the '90s hit, Mary-Kate and Ashley declined to marque an appearance (leading to many fourth-wall shattering references connected the series). 

But Mary-Kate did concisely see making a cameo, with executive producer, Bob Boyett, telling People, "Mary-Kate said, 'It would person to beryllium maine due to the fact that Ash doesn't privation to bash it, but the timing is truthful atrocious for us."

28. Series creator Franklin concisely considered asking Elizabeth to instrumentality implicit Michelle Tanner duties for her sisters, telling E! News, "In our infinitesimal of disappointment, John Stamos and I talked astir what to bash and we thought for a moment, what if? We've known Elizabeth since she was a small girl." 

He ne'er made an authoritative offer, with Elizabeth later confirming she was ne'er pitched the idea, telling E!, "If I did, I'm beauteous definite nary 1 connected my squad heard it. I don't cognize wherever that started."

29. Still, the Olsens remained adjacent with their Full House co-stars implicit the years, antecedently reuniting with their precocious TV dada Bob Saget (who passed distant successful 2022) and TV uncle John Stamos. 

30. The twins decided to bring their ready-to-wear enactment Elizabeth and James to the masses successful April 2019, announcing an exclusive concern with Kohl's, with Ashley saying successful a statement, "We person ever seen Elizabeth and James speaking to a overmuch larger assemblage and this caller concern exemplary with Kohl's volition let america to execute that. Mary-Kate and I are excited to enactment with them gathering retired further manner categories and curating spaces that volition bring a caller buying acquisition to our customer."

31. One happening MK has ne'er done? "I've ne'er purchased thing online," she revealed to Vogue.com, with her sister adding, "I similar to see, touch, feel, and experience."

32. The moguls took location Accessory Designer of the Year for The Row, for their postulation of ready-to-wear, handbags, eyewear, and footwear, astatine the CFDA Awards, making it their 5th triumph astatine the esteemed event. Their enactment on The Row earned them the Womenswear Designer of the Year award in 2012 and 2015, aft they became the youngest designers to ever beryllium inducted into the relation backmost successful 2009.

33. Mary-Kate and Ashley consider their narration much similar "a marriage," fixed however adjacent they are.  "It's been 32 years of learning however to communicate," Ashley said of their unsocial enslaved successful a 2018 WSJ Magazine interview, calling their narration "a matrimony and a partnership. We person had ups and downs...We bash everything together."

Mary-Kate jokingly added. "We came retired of the womb doing that."