What does the average Mumsnetter look like?

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I’ve been on Mumsnet for a long time (under lots of different names) and yet I still really struggle to picture what the average MNetter looks like.

I read threads about things like how most only wear tinted moisturiser and Boden clothes, and because I’m so far removed from that, I can’t picture it.

AIBU to ask you to describe the ‘stereotypical’ MNetter for me? Bonus points for celebrity/stock images for reference.

Like a jowlier, more knackered-looking version of Jessica Hynes...

Here’s my selfie

I dunno, I often have this picture in my mind when I read faux outrage on threads.

The people I picture when I read threads are actual people that I know so can't share. Amanda from Motherland is PERFECT!

But in terms of generic googleable photos, similar types to these. That rotate based on the topic 😂

I am constantly told I look like a young meryl streep, guess I’ll take it 🤷🏼‍♀️

@Tigofigo

this is me minus the hush me+em

I wear sweaty Betty lol and cross body bags on most days
5’7 12-14 bboobs and I hate myself tbh
brown layered hair with side bangs I wear make up most days no foundation I hate it

I’m olive/Mediterranean complexion though does this make a difference ? Not sure 🤔

I'm a bit on the cuddly side and don't wear Boden. TK Maxx is my usual haunt now that Debenhams have closed.

@oofmehip ypu are gorgeous!

😘

Hi everyone, depending on what sort of day I'm having:

Barring your first sentence this is me 😂

President of America

I imagine them living in quiet villages with a 3 mile distance from other residents maybe. Mismatch clothes, sensible shoes/sandals. Frizzy/curly hair , no make up. May even live on a farm. Healthy, home cooked meals every night. Kids wear mismatch clothes because clothes arent important and everything should be sustainable. I know they aren't but I just imagine this when reading certain threads.

Omg yes

Haha wishful thinking. Nobody is that thin and perfectly turned-out (other than Kate herself of course).

I also 100% picture the cast of motherland. All of them, depending on the post.

To be though this question is like asking to describe the average British mum! There is just not such person.

But I don't even look like this so I have no idea why I think everyone else looks like this.

I don't know but lately I have noticed an increasing number of threads where the OP envies blonde women and wants to be blonde. Don't know if anyone else has.

I'm 7 foot tall, with long, scaly legs (6 of them, all ending in a sharp, crab-like point). I have lasers for eyes and I mostly wear Boden.

I didn’t know my ex-husbands new girlfriend was in here.

100% describes me if you add tired 😂

Fucksake. Just used that who looks like me site and apparently I look like Miriam Margoyles 😮. Don’t get me wrong I think she’s fab but I don’t want to bloody look like her 😥

I imagine them to look like this.

I have a pic in my head of someone around 40, wearing Seasalt, glossy dark brown hair, slightly overweight. A teacher. But kind, capable, cheerful, and the type to bake cakes for fundraisers.

Love that - wish I'd thought of it

I'll just have to base my ideas on photos people send in so I suppose they have grey/hazel eyes that, for some reason, appear multiple colours and are impossible to define in RL; some sort of suppurating lesion (that may just be in Sporners' Corner); an outfit that's just arrived in the post and they're unsure about and long grey hair with optional duck face.

Well I just followed your lead and came out with Tiger Woods

That would be flattering but I'm a white middle aged woman 🤔😆

He's only the PrersideRnT of tha UniDeD StATES!