Jacqueline Hooton, a 61-year-old grandmother who gained attention for her youthful appearance and striking resemblance to her daughter, is once again causing a stir with her ageless beauty.
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They said: “We are mother and daughter, of course, we always dress the same.
“Of course we share everything….and of course we look like twins.
“We are mother and daughter, but who is who?”
Sharing the video, she captioned: ““Jumping on this trend and picking up on the lovely, funny and occasionally odd comments we get as a mother and daughter.”
This got lots of people talking while some gushed over her ageless look and beauty.
Reacting one wrote: ” They are sisters”
Jacqueline recently shared a post clarifying that while she’s 61 years old, she prefers not to label herself as “old.”
I believe we are all a work in progress when it comes to unpicking our own internalised ageism, myself included 😳
Don’t get me wrong.
I don’t believe 61 is ‘old’, especially as many of us have the potential to live until we are 100. It’s not very accurate to describe everyone over 40 or 50 as ‘old’ and expect that description to work for the next 40 years!
Likewise I don’t know when ‘young’ stops working as a description. If and when a distinction is called for, young adult and older adult seems more fitting to me.
I understand why I, and many others, have used’:.. years young’ to describe our age. We have wanted to challenge narrow, restrictive, and negative age stereotypes.
But by avoiding the use of ‘old’ as an adjective we’ve been guilty of the very thing we are rallying against – ageism.
Unashamedly owning our age is freeing.
Remember how proud we were when we used to say
‘I’m 3 and 1/2 years old’! 👧🏻
That extra half was so important to us.
So no, I’m not 61 years young.
I’m 61 years and 1 month OLD, and happy to own it!
That one month is significant 👆🏻😉”
