Five Top Gift Ideas for Aunts Based on Celebrity Type

Whether she's a homey baker who thinks butter is a food group or a sophisticated fashionista who designs her own linens, buying your aunt a gift is easy once you have pegged her personality type. The best auntie gift ideas stem from figuring out which famous female icon your aunt is most like and then selecting a gift based on her celebrity personality.

If your aunt is like Paula Deen buy her something she can use in the kitchen to make something yummy and fattening. If she's peachy about pie, she already has a rolling pin. But does she have the pink silicon rolling pin featured in O Magazine that won't stick to the dough? This perfect auntie gift is only $24 at bestbuykitchenware.com.

If your aunt is like Martha Stewart she wants everything about her to be unique, including the scent she wears. At ScentCrafters, she can design her own signature scent so when she walks into the room, everyone will know it's her! Buy her a gift certificate and let her imagination run wild melding gardenia, honey dew and Vera Wang! This great auntie gift idea is only $39.99 for a 3.4 oz bottle. Gift certificates available at scentcrafters.com.

If your aunt is like Julia Louis-Dreyfus, not so much the funny Julia, but the green Julia, (her Santa Barbara house has a retractable roof and solar heating system), give her a green gift bag filled with practical and pampering items, including compact fluorescent light bulbs, bamboo dish cloths, natural soaps and an essential oil diffuser with her favorite essential oils. Use a re-usable cloth shopping bag as your gift bag.

If your aunt is like Oprah buy her something spiritual and bookish, such as Deepak Chopra's new book Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul: How to Create a New You, only $16.50 from Amazon in hardcover. If money's no object, buy her a Kindle to read it on. They've come down a bit in price with new Kindle wireless reading devices starting at $259.

If your aunt is like Kathy Smith nothing makes her smile more than working up a good sweat. The Kathy Smith website (kathysmith.com) has great fitness gift packages that make perfect auntie gifts, including an upper body kit for only $29.99 to give your aunt those sculpted Michelle Obama arms. Along with a DVD, the kit has an exercise ball, resistance tube and easy instructional guide.