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Mom Spends $20,000 on Plastic Surgery to Look Like Daughter
File this one under creepy.
50-year-old Janet Cunliffe recently underwent several surgeries to help make her look more like her 28-year-old daughter, Jane.
“I envied Jane’s crinkle-free eyes, full lips and luscious, long blonde hair,” says Janet. “I was desperate to look more like my daughter, but knew no wrinkle creams could ever wind back the clock that far.”
So to help the clock along, Janet has had two breast augmentations, her eyes and nose done, lip injections, and hair extensions. The twice-divorced mother of two is now often mistaken as the sister of her daughter. The pair seem to love the attention.
“People ask if I mind that she’s transformed herself into me, but I couldn’t be more proud,” Jane says. “I’m the one who helps her with her hair and clothes, so it’s down to me, too. I can hardly accuse Mum of copying my looks when she gave them to me, can I?”
I’m all for women (and men) feeling confident with their looks and their bodies. I’m not opposed to plastic surgery on principle, but this just seems to go too far.
Here’s Janet before the surgeries:
Here’s Janet and Jane out on the town:
What do you think? Motherly love or inappropriate obsession?
Source and photos: Daily Mail
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8 Comments
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amI don’t think why people go for plastic surgery?. Why they destroy their natural beauty as “God” gifted them. They are spoiling the law of nature.
I’m quiet satisfied with my natural beauty…..
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amDysfunctional. Please send both to the psychiatrist.
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amTotally creepy.
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amshe looks way better now, imo.
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amI think they both look exponentially better in the top photo than in the bottom one.
I don’t think it’s creepier than picking any other random young woman that you think is “ideal”. It’s only weird to me because they apparently go out on the town together, which makes the look-alike thing seem more like a gimmick than anything else.
Knitty commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amOh but Diera, there ARE acceptable options for middle-aged women! We can stay “naturally” beautiful and young-looking, or we can drop dead before offending anyone with our aging faces and bodies. It’s important to remember that women are, above all else, objects, and that our worth is directly related to how closely we fit the female ideal. *uggggghhh*
What creeps me out about this story isn’t that the woman wants to look younger but that she wants to look like her daughter, and that her daughter has bleached hair, a fake tan, etc.
diera commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amIt’s a little creepy but older women are kind of between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, they’re told they’re disgusting the way they are (just watch movies, sitcoms and commercials for scenes where an obviously over-the-hill woman hits on someone, how gross! it’s hysterical!) but at the same time, if they go the route this woman took and modify themselves to try to look younger, they’re *also* disgusting. I mean, what the hell are we supposed to do? Die quietly in a corner at fifty? I swear, listening to my geeky male friends talk about how actresses look when they get older, you’d think that aging was a poor choice these women made, rather than something that happens to every living person. I don’t think I’ll do what this woman did, but as I slide towards forty and start to understand what aging means for a woman in a youth-beauty-and-sex obsessed culture I can damn well understand the temptation.
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amHave to agree with “file under…creepy…”
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