An illustrative picture: Leighton Meester at 17 (left) and 40 (right).

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[–] 2 points 15 hours ago

I have a funny experience with kids and people guessing my age. I had one set in my early 20s, and another set in my late 30s. People who knew me from my first kids thought I was the age I am, people who sawe with my second kids thought I was much younger than I am, and people who saw me with all of them thought I was older than I am because they thought I was the grandma. Except occasionally my oldest complained, she said people thought we were a lesbian couple with kids, that people thought she was a lot older than she was.

Which taught me, people don't really look at you much, they make assumptions based on your situation, and that colors how they see you.

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