Sarah Michelle Gellar has shared rare new photos of her 14-year-old son Rocky, and the family snapshot quickly set off a fresh round of comments about how much he now looks like Freddie Prinze Jr. The pictures came after Rocky debuted a new haircut that fans said made him look like his father’s early-2000s buzzcut.
That reaction matters because Rocky is not just making an occasional appearance in a celebrity post. He has been competing in race car driving, launched an Instagram account to document his journey on the grid and, in April, was shown speeding around the track in a video Gellar shared. On the race weekend post, she captioned the images, “Race weekend with my boys,” underscoring that this is now part of the family routine, not a one-off outing.
The new photos also landed because they arrived after Prinze Jr. had already shared pictures of Rocky in his racing uniform days earlier, giving fans more to compare and more reason to comment. Online, some called the teenager the “spitting image” of Prinze Jr. and said he could be his “twin,” a striking response for a family that generally keeps its two children, including 17-year-old Charlotte, relatively out of the spotlight.
That is what makes the attention feel slightly off-balance: Rocky’s growing public profile comes through his racing, while his parents have usually kept family life private. Gellar has said his dream is @f1, and she has described watching him on the road, literally and figuratively, as something that leaves her “truly ecstatic.”
For now, Rocky appears to be doing exactly what he set out to do: keep building his racing resume, document it himself and let the photos speak for him. The online chatter may start with his haircut, but the story that follows is a teenager chasing speed, one post at a time.
