Every family has a story that gets passed down beyond the dinner table. From long careers to exciting artistic projects and major athletic achievements, certain relatives cement their legacy for generations to come.
And that’s exactly what TikTok user Livy_mp3 tapped into when she asked on the platform, “Tell me your most insane family flex, and I don’t mean, ‘My aunt was on TV once,’ I’m talking totally mind-blowing and absurd.”
The prompt struck a chord, racking up 23 million views and 223K comments, with people eager to share their proudest stories.
#1
My mom has two Olympic gold medals😛(Kristine Andersen)
Image credits: Frede♥️ (Balstyrkos version)
#2
My Great Great Grandmother was the one who got to call the president to tell him the war was over! (WW2)
Image credits: ur mom
#3
My great great uncle is the original voice of Donald Duck
Image credits: aly_4L
#4
My grandmother was one of the first nine women that went to Harvard with Ruth Bater Ginsberg (they were friends too)
#5
My dad survived 9/11
Image credits: Joakim
#6
My grandparents escaped North Korea
Image credits: …
#7
My uncle was Loki’s stunt double
Image credits: Bradles-_-
#8
Bob Ross was a close family friend and one of his paintings was for my grandpa
Image credits: 𝓁𝒶𝓎𝓃ℯ ♫⃠
#9
My grandpa was good friends with Obama and we got Christmas cards for 7-8 years
Image credits: kalayna
#10
I am related to Bach. Like the composer. My whole family is ridiculously musically talented
#11
My cousin is a 4 time Olympian and won a bronze medal in 2024
Image credits: joan
#12
My dad worked on Coraline
Image credits: yeehaw
#13
My aunt dated Brad Pitt in college, and dumped him
Image credits: jillian
#14
Our cat went missing for two years and we thought a dead bunny in the road was her so we buried it and she randomly came home 2 years later and we were on the news
Image credits: ryleeroospammy
#15
My cousin is Neil Armstrong (shoutout i got the blue eyes from that side of the family)
#16
My dead uncle directed Sesame Street
Image credits: ATHENA
#17
My great great grandmother is grandmama in the original Adam’s family
#18
Before Green Day was famous they opened for my dad’s old band (Agent Orange)
Image credits: snow ᖭི༏ᖫྀ
#19
Fergie is my auntie and we still make fun of her for the anthem
Image credits: rclwilliams
#20
My great uncle invented the digital camera
#21
Entirely because of drunk driving my grandfather is the reason you cannot drive lawnmowers on the road in some city in Oklahoma I forgot the name of
#22
My mum is on one of the old book covers of the Vampire Diaries
#23
My grandpa goes to church regularly with Joe Biden
#24
My mums childhood best friend is married to Hugh Grant
Image credits: 🎱🪽SIRI🪽🎱
#25
Grandpa had a beer w Freddie Mercury before he was famous. He said he would go watch him preform at this local bar all the time. Then a few years later saw him preforming on TV
#26
My dad kidnapped his 7 kids and drove us from BC down through the US to Texas. We were missing for close to 6 months. June to December. Big police raid when they finally found us. We were flown back home first class and reunited with our mom just before Christmas.
#27
There is NO record of my grandma’s grandpa. no gravestone, no proof of life, and we’ve searched hard. family legend says he was an outlaw in the wild west before he bought land in MO with cash, chose a last name, and settled down
#28
My mom met Johnny Depp twice in New York at a bar, and the second time he recognized her from the first time
Image credits: cosima
#29
My aunt made the panda express logo?? 😭
#30
My Aunt Angel went to school w Eminem. He had a crush on her and would call her angel baby, later on when he got popular in music she went to one of his meet in greets and asked for him to sign to Angel baby
#31
My uncle was a tester for Minecraft and got to witness it being created 🙂
#32
My grandpa was a comic book artist for marvel and DC but died too young to be recognized
#33
My uncle animates for American Dad and he threw a peanut at Toby Maguire on the set of Spiderman once
Image credits: lilli!
#34
My dad has like a license for everything so we can literally do anything like fly helicopters, sail boats, and legally own a tank
Image credits: Vivi 🇨🇳🇻🇳
#35
My grandma lived in the same trailer park as Eminem’s grandma
Image credits: 𝕶𝖆𝖙𝖙✰
#36
Nobody ever believes me but I got a great uncle who works or worked at area 51
#37
My grandma is friends with one of Ted Bundy’s surviving victims
Image credits: Anna
#38
My uncle won MasterChef
#39
My aunt got asked to be Queen Latifah’s personal chef and said no 😔
Image credits: Brooklyn
#40
My grandma was at the concert that Ozzy bit the head off the bat 😎
Image credits: Reis
#41
My aunt has worked for Paris Hilton and is always invited to Dnoop Dog’s bday parties
#42
My grandma was the first American woman to be arrested in Edinburgh
#43
My great grandfather was the richest man in Vietnam and post master general before the war
#44
I’m related to John Quincy Adams and Ozzy Osbourne has been in my house
Image credits: Kolten 🌟🪐
#45
My cousins dad owns Crumbl Cookies
Image credits: brooky
#46
Not a flex but! my uncle is banned from Poland. if he goes to Poland he will get instantly arrested. Bare in mind, bro is Polish.
Image credits: wika 🦇
#47
Michael Jackson is my mom’s cousin
#48
My mum’s cousin was one of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims
Image credits: Erin
#49
My aunt got asked out by Ice Cube and dumped him
#50
My dad got accused of stealing a 300+lbs tortoise
#51
My aunt slept with Orlando Bloom 🤗
#52
My mom is Kim K’s cousin! and my aunty preformed with Michael Jackson
#53
My uncle is THE Joe Anderson
#54
My nana saw Billy Joel in the bar and she saw him make up piano man
#55
My cousin is the guy who made THE and they were roommates vine
#56
My mom met Selena Gomez in a mental rehabilitation center and when I went to visit my mom I saw her there
#57
My cousin’s the Hawk Tuah girl
