Nazanin Afshin-Jam says her first-born looks so little like her that she fears people looking at her wonder if the child is really hers.
Five-month-old Kian MacKay looks like the cherubic Irish baby that half of him is.
The family spoke to Hello! Canada magazine this month as it featured a photo of mom, dad and baby on its front cover.
The story says Kian is a “carbon copy” of dad, Canadian Justice Minister Peter MacKay, 47, including the reddish Irish hair, blue eyes and dimples.
Afshin-Jam, 34, says there are only a few features young Kian inherited from her side of the family. “I think the only things he inherited from me are his eyebrows, and his chin sort of looks like my grandfather’s,” she told Hello! “I swear, when I’m walking around, I wonder if people think it’s my baby.”
Afshin-Jam said, “Sometimes I just look at him, his sweet face looking back at me, studying my face and smiling, and tears of joy run down my cheeks.”
Kian is the couple’s first child, born in Ottawa on April Fool’s Day.
Afshin-Jam was born in Tehran but came to Iran as a toddler and was raised in Vancouver on Canada’s West Coast. MacKay was born and raised in Nova Scotia in Canada’s Atlantic provinces and his constituency in the House of Commons includes his birthplace.
MacKay was the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party in 2003 when it merged with the Canadian Alliance led by Stephen Harper and became the Conservative Party. Harper is now prime minister and MacKay is considered a possible successor to lead the party when Harper, 54, retires.
