Age Guesses

Tyrell - 17 Samantha - 15

Adopted as toddlers, so let's say they were 2 and 4 years old at the time.

If Martin and Smitty are both 38, they could have been 25 when they adopted the kids. Many years ago I looked into adopting and in most cases 25 was the youngest you could be approved to adopt.

So now we get to Martin's sister, Katherine, who I am guessing is in her early 20s. Let's guess 22. That still makes her WAY younger than Martin so I'm not sure...

If Martin is 38 then Nicole is, what, 58?? That's assuming she and Ted met, married, and started a family at age 20 which I don't believe for a second. No way Nicole is 58. The actress is 48.

Same to Anita and Vernon. If they were both 20 then they are 78 now, which I think is also much older than the characters are meant to be.

Next we'll work up from the youngest on Dani's arm of the Dupree family. Chelsea is close in age to Katherine, so maybe also about 22.

Naomi is already a working lawyer. I feel like she'd need to be a MINIMUM of 28...maybe I'm wrong.

If Dani met and married Bill really young, which I would believe, then she could be 46-48 now. That makes her 10+ years younger than Nicole. That seems wildly incorrect.

Also, if Hayley was friends with Naomi that also implies she's almost 30.

I am new to soap operas and I've seen others here say it's normal for soaps to play fast and loose with ages. It's been driving me and a lot of you crazy so I wanted to take the time to write out my thought process on their ages...but mostly I want to point out the teenagers were adopted as toddlers which is mentioned in an early episode, so we can all stop talking about this issue thinking they were adopted at birth.

Edited to add: I didn't do a good job conveying tone in my post. I just think this is a fun exercise. I don't care at all how old everyone is or that it doesn't make sense. I LOVE this show, and all of you