A super fit grandmother has shared her incredible likeness to her 24-year-old daughter – with the two often being dubbed “twins”.
Jacqueline Hooton, 61, has made headlines for her youthful appearance and incredible fitness achievements – impressively being able to deadlift double her body weight.
The personal trainer, from Bognor Regis, shared a funny clip of herself and her daughter, Saffron joking about their resemblance – despite a 37-year age gap.
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Jacqueline shared the post with her 500,000 followers on Instagram, (@hergardengym), where followers struggled to tell the two apart.
In the video recently posted to Instagram, Jacqueline and Saffron can be seen joining in on a trend where you mock what you’ve got in common.
Standing next to each other in identical lilac workout gear, they say: “We are mother and daughter, of course, we always dress the same.
“Of course we share everything.
“Of course we look like twins.
“We are mother and daughter, but who is who?”
The post was captioned: “Jumping on this trend and picking up on the lovely, funny and occasionally odd comments we get as a mother and daughter,” and has garnered 392,000 views.
One fan, Mitali, commented: “Waaaaah! I want a mini-me!”
Elizabeth added: “You two are adorable!”
Someone else wrote: “No, I’m sure you’re siblings.”
Another fan said: “They are siblings.”
Abou commented: “They are sisters.”
Someone else added: “My daughter just said you are twins and who is the mama and who is the darling? Lol! She is 6.”
While she receives plenty of well-intentioned comments about her age, for Jacqueline, it is just a number.
She previously told What’s The Jam: “People tell me I look good for my age.
“I understand they mean this in a kind way.
“However, I think I look my age and I am comfortable with this.
“The description of ‘good for age’ is problematic.
“It tells women they are still being judged on appearance, even as they grow older.
“It is a distraction from what really matters, our physical health.
“I am more interested in how we are ageing physically and what we can do to support healthier ageing, in terms of physical function, heart health, bone health, cardiovascular health, cognitive health and so on.
“I think one of the benefits of exercise is that it can have aesthetic benefits as well, but that’s not my primary goal.
“My primary goal is to be as healthy and well as I can be, especially as I’m 60 years old [and] because I have osteoarthritis.
“It’d be very easy to sit down and think, ‘I can’t do anything’, but it’s even more important as we get older if we’ve got underlying medical conditions and things to invest that time.
“For me, it’s definitely about health, it’s definitely about function, and it’s definitely with an eye on the prize – of getting to 100 years old or more and still feeling healthy and well.”
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