Can you guess who’s the mom and who’s the daughter?

Like mother, like daughter.

Joleen Diaz, 43, and her 19-year-old daughter, Meilani Parks, recently broke the Internet with a series of mind-bending Instagram posts. Beaming on the beach in bikinis, the ladies could be twins.

“You are officially the hottest mom in the world!” one Instagram user wrote on Diaz’s account.

Despite their 24-year age gap, the California girls are used to it, says Diaz.

“I don’t think she minds,” she says of her daughter. Diaz credits the likeness to a strict skin-care regimen, balanced diet and good genes. “While she was growing up, she would often hear people tell me they thought my mother was my sister.”

They’re not the only mom-and-daughter duo who have people seeing double. Here, The Post talks to five amazing lookalikes about their relationships — and the moms’ fountain-of-youth secrets. Can you tell who’s who?

‘She has a really cool, Coachella vibe’

People are constantly confusing Emily Rose Herrera, 48, with her 30-year-old daughter, Nikki Claudine.

“It happens all the time,” says Claudine, a publicist in Los Angeles.

Usually, she’s mistaken for the sister or twin of her mom — but she’s also gotten a “Nice to meet you, Mrs. Herrera” with her mother standing right beside her.

Herrera, an insurance specialist who lives in Chicopee, Mass., believes that not smoking and using sunscreen helps her maintain her ultrayoung appearance. She also swears by her drugstore-bought Aveeno moisturizer, a $15-a-jar cream she uses religiously.

Genes help, too, Herrera says: “Nikki’s grandmother used to be a model.”

Occasionally, Claudine’s hot-mom complex makes her feel a little insecure.

“I sometimes wonder, do I look old for my old age? But I know it’s more do with Mom’s youthful looks. She has a really cool, Coachella vibe about her.”

‘I get carded a lot’

Amanda Seghetti, 40, has lost count of the number of times she’s been mistaken for her 18-year-old daughter’s sister.

Seghetti and her daughter, Hunter Brown, have high cheekbones and heart-shaped chins. They sport similar hairstyles — and clothes, since they’re the exact same size and can raid each other’s wardrobes.

It helps that Brown loves giving her mom beauty and makeup tips — and that Seghetti, like her daughter, is wrinkle-free. Their fresh-looking faces melt the 22 years between them.

“A waiter recently carded me for ordering a glass of wine after saying it was nice that we were having a sisters’ dinner date,” says Seghetti, a lifestyle and parenting blogger out of Woodstock, Ga. She credits her appearance to drinking “lots of water, no soda and regular exercise.”

Brown, who currently works at an animal kennel and is hoping to become a vet, says that twinning with her mom doesn’t bother her.

“It makes me feel like I must look very mature, which is a good thing,” she says.

‘I get mistaken for a high-schooler’

Driving around her neighborhood in Westchester, teachers’ assistant Dionne Warren gets waved at by practically every teen on the road.

That’s because the young motorist’s constantly mistaken her for her 18-year-old daughter, Suniya.

“We’ve also created confusion in the TSA line at the airport, where I’ve handed over my passport with Suniya’s and the agent couldn’t figure out who was who,” says the 37-year-old. “She was baffled.”

Dionne looks so young that “when my mom came to watch events at my school, people would ask her, ‘Are you a student here?’ ” says Suniya, who now attends SUNY Purchase. “At first I found it quite frustrating, but now I think it’s funny.”

Once, Dionne was prevented from entering a local gas station because it limits the number of high school students using its store at the same time. She says that the misunderstandings only increased after she stopped straightening her hair and embraced a more natural look — like Suniya’s.

Her secret to eternal youth? Coconut oil, slathered all over her body, every day.

But there is one a downside to passing as a teen.

“I still get acne,” Dionne says, laughing.

‘I don’t eat man-made food’

Writer, stand-up comic and voice-over artist Zara Mizrahi jokes that mom Robin Mizrahi, 35 years her senior, gets hit on more than she does when they’re out on the town in LA together.

“She acts as young as she looks, and she’s a complete rock star,” the engaged 28-year-old says of her unattached mom, who’s also a writer. “Guys are shocked when they find out she’s my mother.”

The 63-year-old — who describes the responses as “very flattering” — attributes her youthful appearance to a vegetarian diet, her daily yoga workout and annual $1,800 Fraxel laser treatments. She also applies Retin-A to her face every night.

One of her nutrition and fitness gurus is the late Jack LaLanne, whom she once interviewed.

“He said, ‘Don’t eat anything man made,’ and I’ve tried to stick to that rule,” explains Robin.

Meanwhile, the mother and daughter team enjoy shopping trips together, often visiting their favorite West Hollywood store, MAC.

“We go on makeup errands,” says Zara. “We learn a lot from each other.”

‘I get hit on more than my daughter’

This past week, when fitness and nutrition podcasters Kim Sorey and Kalee Dillard were shopping in their local grocery store, a woman stopped them in their tracks. “I just have to ask,” she said. “Are y’all twins?”

“I thought, ‘God bless,’ ” says Sorey, 49, who claims that the “sisters” or “twin” inquiries happen all the time. “It’s often when we both have no makeup on.”

Far from getting offended, Dillard, 31, finds the misunderstandings delightful. “I know I’ve got good genes, and I’ll hopefully look like Mom when I’m her age,” she says.

When the Nashville, Tenn., mom and daughter are out in a bar or restaurant together, men approach them — and, more often than not, hit on Sorey, who’s single and doesn’t wear a wedding ring.

“When they find out she’s my mother, they’ll say, ‘Well, you must have had her at 12,’ ” says Dillard, groaning. “They hope I’ll be their wing man, but I usually disappoint them — unless they’re a cute doctor or someone like that!”

Sorey, who is also a coach for the fitness company Beachbody, says her age-defying secrets include 40-minute workouts four days a week, consisting of moderate weightlifting and yoga, drinking 125 ounces of water a day and regular spa trips with her daughter.

“Kalee and I have a $120 facial together every eight weeks,” she says.

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