One daughter has made her beautiful mom Internet-popular in a matter of days. Recently, Twitter user @shipilkins uploaded a picture of her 43-year-old mother who looks nothing like her age, and it already has over 25K likes. After the tweet went viral, others started replying to it with photos of their own young-looking moms. However, it became clear pretty early on that this "beauty contest" will have multiple winners because these gorgeous, forever young "participants" look as if they found the elixir of life!
(h/t brightside)
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Beauty contests, celebrating a woman as a symbol of community solidarity and fertility, has a long and continuing history in Europe and North America. However, you could say their modern form came to be during the second half of the nineteenth century when women were frequently displayed in publicly staged events across the US. These events were met with little protest as long as the occasion and its organizers were 'respectable.'
I'm so jealous ! I'm a teacher too but it often feels like students suck the life out of me 😁
Women didn't wear swimsuits in public until the early twentieth century. The public staging of semi-naked women, however, developed together with modern popular culture and beauty standards, where low and high-class values became mixed and bathing beauties could be shown in movies and advertisements.
Eventually, everything came together in 1921, when Atlantic City hosted the first Miss America contest. So as not to offend public morals, the sensual aspects of the contest were obscured by a week-long, elaborate festival which included sports events, automobile races, as well as orchestra and choir competitions.
After receiving quite a bit of suspicion, beauty contests became really popular in the 1950s, with civil associations like the Jaycees and Rotary organizing them. Through mass media, the model of the contest spread all over the world. However, beauty contests still face criticism as people continue to argue that these events promote unrealistic expectations of what women are expected to, and should, look like.
she is beautiful but it really isn't fair to post pictures that are filtered or touched up and then say "see how young she looks" it's not genuine
She looks like she's had work done - but I guess it could be a filter - definitely not natural.
When did the 30’s and 40’s become old? I mean,posting a photo of a lady in her,lets say 37,and being surprised she looks young (and beautiful) is beyond my way of seeing it.
Exactly. I'm 39 and glad that my kids are too young to be posting this.
I was thinking the same thing! These kids are young to be posting this. I'm 32 and they are making me feel like I'm old or something.
Exactly! This must have been written by a bunch of sixteen year mall hoppers.
I;m 41. Those womens in 40s looks like like every woman in 40's now. The nutrition, the better condition of life make the 40s look younger from 40s in the years 80's or 90's. And maybe in our 60s we look younger from the womens in 60s in 2019. The age now is not a secret like in the past .
What conditions of life or nutrition were different in the 80's and 90's? Ridiculous.
Agreed I'm 35 with two kids, sure I look a bit different than I did 10 years ago but mostly have no wrinkles, a little more grey and I'm about a stone heavier but I wouldn't go on the trash heap yet either.
They're young mothers only in the sense that they had their babies in her 20s or even younger. People at her 40s look like this. They all look her age, and some of them a bit older. I'm 43 ;)
It’s insulting to say the least.
It is relative, really. The older you get, the younger people around you become. Back in kindergarten, 15 year old teenagers seemed like full adults to me, then when I became a teenager, I looked at 25 years olds as "too big", now I'm turning 30 and I still don't think I should hurry if I want kids, and 40 year olds don't feel much older either, while the "too big" 25's from before now seem like kids, and teenagers are as cute as little sparrows gathering at parks and having fun.
I don't know why you were downvoted, you're totally right.When I was 8, I considered my 14 year old babysitter an adult. Now I'm fourteen, and from my perspective, anyone older than 20 is an adult. And I'm sure that, when I'm twenty, I'll look back and be completely in awe that I could ever consider somebody that age fully grown. It all changes with perspective.
This is true. I know that I'm getting older because every year I see more people "young". When I was a teenager, a 20yo person looked old to me!
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What?
No one called them old except the people posting below the photos. They are all just lovely moms.
exactly
The people who posted these are probably between age 10 and 20. They have no concept of time or age or looks. They are all literally children.
I've seen some women not all, at these ages looking old
A lot of these women look their age, the do look really good, but certainly look their age. Plus what is wrong with looking 49 when you are 49?
I was thinking the same.... I mean, many of them are barely 40 or 45. Yes they look super cute but they are still young!!!!
I probably expressed my thought in a bad way. It's not that because you are young you are cute (I am the same age as many of them and totally not good looking at all). The point is that it seems like some sort of miracle the fact that they are beautiful and hot. The picture I appreciate the most is the 60 year old mom that looks like she is 40. That is surprising.
I wouldn't say they look young - that babyfaced peachyness is definitely gone - but they certainyl don't look old.
You should look super cute at that age, because guess what??? You’re still young.
The issue is that someone’s kid isn’t going to understand what “looking 49” is supposed to be. They think you wrinkle after 25. Because they aren’t even close to being 25 yet. The opinions of kids are useless when it comes to looks and age.
Spot on!
The point is not looking their age but younger
Isn't the point of the thread pretty moms, not moms that look young for their age? The two are not the same thing!
I guess kids these days think you turn into a wrinkled, old, gray prune when turning 30? Most of them look their age and the ones that don't, use a lot of makeup, perfect poses and overexposure to look younger.
Why people are surprised that these women look like women and not young girls??? I'm 36 and honestly want to look 36 - not 18. Age is just the number of times you've circled the sun... it has absolutely nothing to do with how you feel, how you look or how you act.
Ah 18 is not what they're saying not only is that half your age but none of them insinuated teenage 18 or even 20.
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It must be a cultural thing. It’s pretty sad to grow up thinking like that.
When did the 30’s and 40’s become old? I mean,posting a photo of a lady in her,lets say 37,and being surprised she looks young (and beautiful) is beyond my way of seeing it.
Exactly. I'm 39 and glad that my kids are too young to be posting this.
I was thinking the same thing! These kids are young to be posting this. I'm 32 and they are making me feel like I'm old or something.
Exactly! This must have been written by a bunch of sixteen year mall hoppers.
I;m 41. Those womens in 40s looks like like every woman in 40's now. The nutrition, the better condition of life make the 40s look younger from 40s in the years 80's or 90's. And maybe in our 60s we look younger from the womens in 60s in 2019. The age now is not a secret like in the past .
What conditions of life or nutrition were different in the 80's and 90's? Ridiculous.
Agreed I'm 35 with two kids, sure I look a bit different than I did 10 years ago but mostly have no wrinkles, a little more grey and I'm about a stone heavier but I wouldn't go on the trash heap yet either.
They're young mothers only in the sense that they had their babies in her 20s or even younger. People at her 40s look like this. They all look her age, and some of them a bit older. I'm 43 ;)
It’s insulting to say the least.
It is relative, really. The older you get, the younger people around you become. Back in kindergarten, 15 year old teenagers seemed like full adults to me, then when I became a teenager, I looked at 25 years olds as "too big", now I'm turning 30 and I still don't think I should hurry if I want kids, and 40 year olds don't feel much older either, while the "too big" 25's from before now seem like kids, and teenagers are as cute as little sparrows gathering at parks and having fun.
I don't know why you were downvoted, you're totally right.When I was 8, I considered my 14 year old babysitter an adult. Now I'm fourteen, and from my perspective, anyone older than 20 is an adult. And I'm sure that, when I'm twenty, I'll look back and be completely in awe that I could ever consider somebody that age fully grown. It all changes with perspective.
This is true. I know that I'm getting older because every year I see more people "young". When I was a teenager, a 20yo person looked old to me!
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What?
No one called them old except the people posting below the photos. They are all just lovely moms.
exactly
The people who posted these are probably between age 10 and 20. They have no concept of time or age or looks. They are all literally children.
I've seen some women not all, at these ages looking old
A lot of these women look their age, the do look really good, but certainly look their age. Plus what is wrong with looking 49 when you are 49?
I was thinking the same.... I mean, many of them are barely 40 or 45. Yes they look super cute but they are still young!!!!
I probably expressed my thought in a bad way. It's not that because you are young you are cute (I am the same age as many of them and totally not good looking at all). The point is that it seems like some sort of miracle the fact that they are beautiful and hot. The picture I appreciate the most is the 60 year old mom that looks like she is 40. That is surprising.
I wouldn't say they look young - that babyfaced peachyness is definitely gone - but they certainyl don't look old.
You should look super cute at that age, because guess what??? You’re still young.
The issue is that someone’s kid isn’t going to understand what “looking 49” is supposed to be. They think you wrinkle after 25. Because they aren’t even close to being 25 yet. The opinions of kids are useless when it comes to looks and age.
Spot on!
The point is not looking their age but younger
Isn't the point of the thread pretty moms, not moms that look young for their age? The two are not the same thing!
I guess kids these days think you turn into a wrinkled, old, gray prune when turning 30? Most of them look their age and the ones that don't, use a lot of makeup, perfect poses and overexposure to look younger.
Why people are surprised that these women look like women and not young girls??? I'm 36 and honestly want to look 36 - not 18. Age is just the number of times you've circled the sun... it has absolutely nothing to do with how you feel, how you look or how you act.
Ah 18 is not what they're saying not only is that half your age but none of them insinuated teenage 18 or even 20.
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It must be a cultural thing. It’s pretty sad to grow up thinking like that.