I'm going to make you all feel extremely old right now...

[LynneSin]

You know this iconic face on all of Gerber foods?

She's now a Great Grandma in RL

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/27/ann-turner-cook-original-gerber-baby_n_5395425.html

Ann Turner Cook, The Original Gerber Baby, Is A Great-Grandmother

The bright-eyed, rosebud-lipped Gerber baby is one of the most iconic tots in the world. But did you know that the image is based on real person?

Over the weekend, CBS Sunday Morning posted an interview with Ann Turner Cook, the 85-year-old great-grandmother whose cherubic baby face has reportedly graced all Gerber packaging since 1931 when the company made it their official trademark.

"I can't think of anything nicer than being a symbol for babies and that's what I think I became," Cook told the news outlet.

According to the Gerber website, Cook's image was chosen as the face for the company during a 1928 contest to "find a face to represent a baby food advertising campaign." Artist Dorothy Hope Smith, then a neighbor of Cook's family, entered a "simple charcoal sketch" of Cook as 4-month-old baby to the contest -- and the rest, as they say, is history.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. She is adorable!

I'd heard, obviously, that the Gerber baby was Humphrey Bogart. Apparently not!

[sarge43]

6. Bogart was the poster baby for another baby food company - Mellins Baby Food

His mother was a top of the heap commercial illustrator.

[shenmue]

2. :)

Neat.

[Xyzse]

3. That has always been a beautiful illustration.

You have no idea how much trees I have butchered trying to copy that.

[CurtEastPoint]

4. I read the article but must have missed this. What is "RL"?

[Lilyhoney]

5. In real life.

[suninvited]

7. I had always heard Brooke Shields was the Gerber baby

I just looked it up and it appears many people grew up thinking that, but cant find where that rumor originated.

[LoveMyCali]

8. I thought Brooke Shields

was an Ivory soap baby.

[AnneD]

10. True..

she was in a commercial for Ivory. I think it was the one where she was in the tub.

[LynneSin]

9. I thought it was Jody Foster...

then I remembered she was the girl in the Coppertone ad

[AnneD]

11. She was

in a commercial for coppertone.

[malthaussen]

12. Eh, she's younger than my mother.

Didn't realize she was that recent.

-- Mal

[RebelOne]

13. I am 10 years younger than the Gerber baby

and I am also a great-grandmother. I never liked to admit my age, but now I am happy and proud to still be alive with no major medical problems.