Fans Do a Double Take at Mariska Hargitay's Selfie With Surprise Breakfast Buddy: 'Two Legends in One Picture'

Breakfast with champions.

Mariska Hargitay somehow became even more legendary this week after sharing a new photo that features not just one, but two icons.

The Law & Order: SVU star recently posed for a selfie with another fan-favorite celebrity and her followers couldn't believe their eyes over the surprise cameo from none other than Olympic gold-medalist Katie Ledecky.

Hargitay, 60, posted the smiling snap to Instagram on Friday, Sept. 6, making her fans go wild with adoration—even more than usual, that is.

In the pic, the actress posed next to the 27-year-old athlete, fresh off her successful run at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Both Ledecky and Hargitay were glowing with radiance in the photo, taken during a breakfast event in New York City.

"They should have given you another medal for your smile!" Hargitay gushed in the caption of her post on Friday, although Ledecky already has plenty of medals under her belt. Her wins in Paris (two gold, one silver and one bronze) tied her for the most all-time medals by a female Olympian.

"My goodness, what a bright light you are," she added. "So happy and honored to know you!! More soon please...."

And Hargitay wasn't the only one begging for more, as her followers in the comments were immediately "obsessed" with seeing the two iconic women join forces for a selfie.

"TWO LEGENDS IN ONE PICTURE!!" one hyped-up fan wrote under the post.

"Icons bunching together, that’s what I like to see!" another person echoed.

"Stop the presses," someone else chimed in, adding, "Omg. Love this!"

"You & Katie are a real class act that glow so fearlessly in one single photo!" another user wrote while praising the two "Powerful Women" for supporting each other.

"kinda obsessed with this link up- I cannot lie ??," someone else added.

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