Reese Witherspoon's daughter, Ava Phillippe, looks very similar to her mother. 

The uncanny resemblance was captured in a photo the 40-year-old actress uploaded to her Instagram account Friday.

Phillippe, Witherspoon's oldest child and her first with former husband, actor Ryan Phillippe, is 16 years old. 

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Chances are, the first time you see the photo, you have to do a double take to figure out which person is Witherspoon and which one is Ava Phillippe.

But other photos on Ava's Instagram page show that while the teenager looks a lot like her mother, there are still some obvious differences, including Ava's colored hair.

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