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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!

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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.'

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm so jealous ! I'm a teacher too but it often feels like students suck the life out of me 😁

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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.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why are we talking like 43 is old? She is very young and looks her age.

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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.

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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.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mom is gorgeous, but does not belong within this range of photos. She does look about her own age.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She's in great shape! What an inspiration (runs to dust off dumbbells in laundry room). :-D

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

this one I love and find the most believable and unfiltered. I also love that dress

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This one looks her age, she's beautiful but yeah this just seems like any other woman -- I'm 36 so I'm familiar with the age

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The picture on the left looks like mona Lisa or is it just Me? Xx

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She looks like she's had work done - but I guess it could be a filter - definitely not natural.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

After glancing through these it seems that the age is less important than the looks. These women are mostly slim, have good skin, pretty hair, nice muscle tone, etc. With these things going for you it's not hard to look prettier at 40 than some women look at twenty.

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