It’s just not fair. DH and our daughters look so much younger than they are. It comes from DH’s side of the family. Everyone from his side of the family look significantly younger than they are. DH is 52, but he actually looks like he’s 38. People find it absolutely incomprehensible when he tells them his real age. They demand to see his birth certificate or passport because they simply don’t believe it.
Our daughters (twins) are 33, but they look like they are 18-19. DH can’t even grow a beard – he’s from Kenya, and he says that all the males in his family can’t grow beards. DH has never shaved a day in his life. His chin is so soft and smooth. It comes from his mother, who is 76, but looks 20 years her junior. Apparently DH’s grandmother possessed the same youthful genes.
And it’s not just the youthful faces – DH and our daughters have an extremely efficient metabolism. They just don’t gain weight, no matter how much they eat. Our eldest daughter gave birth to an unbelievably beautiful baby boy last year, but she is still so slim. No baby weight whatsoever.
The ironic thing is that when DH was in his 20 and 30s, his youthful face made him look like a teenager and he hated it. He actually had some insecurity issues because of it. But now he’s older so he’s very content and smug about it. Same with our daughters – they always used to get annoyed about getting asked for ID when buying alcohol or going to watch an 18+ film at the cinema. But now that they are also older, they love looking significantly younger.
And then here I am at 55, and looking every bit my age in both the face and body :(
It’s just not fair.
Are there others here who are blessed to have the “not ageing gene?”
AIBU?
To be envious of DH and our daughters?
crazycoyote · 18/01/2017 07:03
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Dh looks younger than he is too and dd 23 seems to have taken his genes although she is far from impressed at being offered the children's menu when we go out for food 
My mum's still got 50% dark hair and not many wrinkles and she's 85. I'm only just starting to get a few greys and I'll be 50 this year. When I was a teen and suffering from overgreasy skin I remember Mum saying, "Never mind you'll not have wrinkles when you're my age." (I remember howling BUT I WANT A GOOD SKIN NOW) but she was right, I don't have many wrinkles. I also still have spots...
. I was out with school mums just before Christmas and mentioned I was going to have a celebratory meal for my next birthday and they fell over when I said it was my 50th.
I just wish my joints would behave like they're 30 instead of 70!
Late twenties and people still think I'm 16. I hate it. I have 3dc and when I go out with them all at the same time people are like 
i have been know to tell people I'm 18 when I get funny looks and they ask how old I am and if the kids are all mine
I am 37 and DH is 50 this year. He looks young for his age and I don't. It's so irritating at times, people assume I am older as he is too. I have been told I look between 35 and 42 so guessing I don't actually look too much older than my actual age. On my birthday last year someone asked me what I did (it was a Weds) I said not much, just worked and took had kids to their activities, she said well once you're past 40 you don't really bother do you 
My FIL (Bajan) looks younger than DP (bless him, Idon't think he inherited the non-cracking gene). Which creates some rather interesting conversations when FIL has come to school plays
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