User blog:GazettE/Deleted Blog Post 2

Do you know how many people I have seen discussing Alec and Jane's age? A bunch of them and still, even after the Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide information was added fans of this Saga still ask this questions: “What is Alec's age? How old is Jane in real life?”.

Cameron Bright (born January 26, 1993) is the American actor who plays Alec and he is eighteen years old at the moment. The actress who plays Jane, the American Dakota Fanning, is 17 at the moment (born February 23, 1994).

Alec, the character himself, was turned at about the age of 12 or 13 according to the Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide and he is said to be 5" (152 cm) in the books (along with his sister Jane).

But, in an interview, Stephenie Meyer said that she pictured Alec to be 16 and Jane to be 15 (the same age as Bree Tanner but younger looking as Bree even said in the books that Jane looked younger than her); AND that they are not twins but yes, brother and sister (as you may have guessed already from their ages) —and that they only had been stated as twins because of their, not only physical resemblance, but also similar personalities.

In the books, both Alec and Jane are around 5" but in the movies Alec is 5'10" (178 cm) and Jane is 5'3" (160 cm) and they do not look as young as stated in the books — it's also stated in Jane's page that in the movies she does not look as childish as described in the books.

Their height difference in the movies is nothing to make a big deal about because almost every character in The Twilight Saga has a height difference from the books to the movies — ranging from two inches to eight inches and a half.