

“I felt a connection in a very strong way when I met him as a little girl, and I didn’t know why at first, but I figured it out rather quickly.”Ĭredit that, in part, to her striking resemblance both to him and his daughter Mia Tyler (with his second wife, the actor Cyrinda Foxe), who was born just more than a year after her. “It must be chemical somehow-DNA and genes,” Liv explained. Despite having “no idea who he was,” the actor says she “fell madly in love with him” and even bought and would talk to his posters. She first met Steven when she was around 8 or 9 years old at one of Rundgren’s concerts and recalls him buying her a Shirley Temple at the bar. Liv figured out her biological father’s identity long before she reached adulthood, however.


Soon afterward, she confronted her mother, model and musician Bebe Buell, and discovered that her suspicion was correct. “My mom has a diary entry or something where I wrote, ‘I think Steven is my father,’” she explained in 1997.

Liv Tyler was 11 years old in August 1988 when she looked up at a poster of Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler on her bedroom wall and came to a realization that would rock her entire existence.
