40 Portraits, 4 Girls and 40 Years – The Brown Sisters’ Heartwarming Transformation Over Four Decades Captured in Pictures

TrendingJune 8, 2021

Have you ever wondered what you will look like 40 years later? It’s hard to imagine someone and especially, yourself after four decades, which is almost as much as half a lifetime. But Nicholas Nixon, a curious photographer from Detroit, decided to capture the lives of the four Brown sisters throughout the years and took photos every year for four decades.

Heather, Mimi, Laurie, and Bebe posed in front of Nixon, Bebe’s husband, for 40 years, and finally, they got an impressive collection of their transformation from their youth to their older age. By looking at the pictures, you can find out how the details in their appearance changed over the years. Let’s check out the photos and find out the story behind each of them.

How It All Started, 1975

Everything started one summer of 1974 when Nicholas Nixon asked his wife, Bebe, and her three sisters to pose in front of his camera. He didn’t have an idea of capturing a lifetime transformation back then. Still, when one sister, Laurie, graduated from college, he took another picture and decided to make it an ongoing habit.

Therefore, the first portrait was taken in 1975. In this picture, you can see four beautiful young girls, Heather, 23, Mimi, 15, Bebe, 25, and Laurie, 21 standing in a line from left to right. Everyone liked the idea of taking the same kind of picture and standing, in the same way, every year. That’s how the annual tradition of the Brown sisters began.