Mother has surgery to look like her daughter

Soby

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8015981.stm

Walking through Burnley town centre with Janet and Jane Cunliffe, you immediately notice the number of people staring at them as they walk past.

In their white jeans (size six), matching tops, peroxide blonde hair and rather heavy make-up, they appear somewhat out of place amongst the Tuesday lunchtime crowd in the former Lancashire mill-town.

At one point, one of the people walking past sniggers once they're behind us.

"Yes, we get a bit of that," Jane, who's 29, says.

Janet, it's fair to say, doesn't look - or dress - like your average 50-year-old.

"People think we must be sisters, or related in some way, but they'd never believe we were mother and daughter," she says.

'Like my sister'

But her ability to fool people about her age hasn't come cheap. Janet reckons she's spent £12,000 on surgical enhancement.

"I was a 34A/B and now I'm 34DD. I had my upper eyes lifted and lower eyes, I had my nose reshaped and my lips filled with filler.

"I decided to do it because I was feeling low at the time, I'd just come out of a long-term relationship, so just to boost my confidence.


She looks like my sister and I'm happy for her
Jane Cunliffe, daughter

"My daughter inspired me at the time, so I just wanted to look like her and to make me feel a lot more youthful and to give me some confidence."

Jane's initial reaction was perhaps not surprising.

"I went mad. It were the dangers I was scared of for her. I didn't want her to change her looks, but she's happy now. I'm proud of her that she's feeling more confident in herself.

"She looks like my sister and I'm happy for her."

The two of them shop for clothes together. and will often find themselves wearing matching or complementary outfits when they go out together.

As they rifle through their wardrobe of clothes Janet pulls out one of their dresses to show me.

"There is a purple dress here that we bought in America that we both liked and we both wear it. It's a nice clingy dress and I think it looks great on both of us.

"We always get compliments when we go out when one of us has got it on."

'Just a buzz'

Both of them clearly enjoy the attention.

"Oh, it's amazing the reaction that we get, everyone stares. They can't believe she's my mother. They think she's my sister and it's just a buzz." says Jane.

Jane and Janet Cunliffe
Jane Cunlifffe, left, with her mother Janet

Walking alongside them through Burnley town centre it is easy to see what she means.

You notice everyone we walk past casts their eyes over the two of them. I stop a few people and ask them to guess how old they think the ladies are.

"Forty-nine, 50 - and I'd say about 22," says the first man I stop.

Jane looks far happier with our mystery shopper than her mum does.

"She's 42, and 24," guesses the second person.

"Janet about 40 and Jane, 23. Do they look their real age? No," says a female passer-by.

What do you make of the way they're dressed though?

"Well," says the woman diplomatically, "It's not my style obviously, but yeah, fine, it's great, nothing wrong with it."

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They go out parting together.Jesus you'd think you would give up at 50.Shes no comparison to the daughter though;):P

prinz

Better question is why she actually wanted to look like a cut-rate hooker.

nomorebadtown

Soby wrote: »

Shes no comparison to the daughter though;):P

i dunno, they're both nasty looking skanks to me.

Dennis the Stone

yuck

Bobeagleburger

I wonder what the gran looks like

Turd Ferguson

rarnes1 wrote: »

I wonder what the gran looks like

Exhausted

Boskowski

Soby wrote: »

They go out parting together.Jesus you'd think you would give up at 50.Shes no comparison to the daughter though;):P

I don't see why anyone should give up at 50. I mean there sure is plenty of 50 year olds for them to score right? And I'm sure when 50 year olds are looking for partners they'd rather go for someone who's nice by 50 year old standards than for someone who has given up.

But, oh my god, they're both scarecrows.

Dennis the Stone

You can look good at 50 without looking like a ****ing hooker

Nasty.

Nodin

Soby wrote: »

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8015981.stm



They go out parting together.Jesus you'd think you would give up at 50.Shes no comparison to the daughter though;):P

No reason to stop partying. However there comes a time when you have to realise you're going to look your age.

When I saw this earlier on the Beeb site, I though the daugher looked like a man and though it was about "him" trying to look like "his" mother.

niceirishfella

Skanky Hoes.

Sean Quagmire

YIZAR JUST JEALOUS YIZARE

starflake

I say fair play to the mother, she's way better looking than the daughter now anyway.

niceirishfella

Sean Quagmire wrote: »

YIZAR JUST JEALOUS YIZARE

I'm not jealous of your spelling abilities.:P

Gone Drinking

fcuk it, its friday.. i'd stick myself insider their stinks.

That should read: Mother has surgery to make her look like she had surgery.

Mr.Lizard

It's not unheard of. Here's another famous UK mother who does what it takes to look like her daughters.

bronte

State o' dat :pac:

serfboard

Mr.Lizard wrote: »

It's not unheard of. Here's another famous UK mother who does what it takes to look like her daughters.

The Daily Torygraph article that you quote says:

Mrs Chawner is paid an extra £330-a-month disability allowance for epilepsy and asthma, both a result of being overweight.

Where is the evidence that being overweight causes epilepsy - or asthma?

PeakOutput

they are both hideous

Dubh Geannain

Yawn! :rolleyes:

That story would be much more interesting if the daughter was, say, 6 months old

Mr.Lizard

Dubh Geannain wrote: »

Yawn! :rolleyes:

That story would be much more interesting if the daughter was, say, 6 months old

It'd be even more interesting if the mother was 6 months old.

admiralofthefleet

they are both mingers, the daughter actually looks worse than the oul one

Dubh Geannain

Mr.Lizard wrote: »

It'd be even more interesting if the mother was 6 months old.

True. Looks like I've been outsmartassed

Lilyblue

She should ask for a refund..

BrokenArrows

how does this even make the news?

Abi

Which one is the mother?

galwayrush

Abigayle wrote: »

Which one is the mother?

The one with the slightly less awful eye brows.:D

SV

Why would she want to look like her daughter?
You'd think if you were spending that kind of money you'd wanna look decent.

Captain-America

I spent the whole article thinking to myself, she does look fifty.

galwayrush

SV wrote: »

Why would she want to look like her daughter?
You'd think if you were spending that kind of money you'd wanna look decent.

It's different for Chavs.;)