That’s my mother at age 16. I adore this photo.
the smell of my desperation has become a stench
Heather B. Armstrong
Hi. I’m Heather B. Armstrong, and this used to be called mommy blogging. But then they started calling it Influencer Marketing: hashtag ad, hashtag sponsored, hashtag you know you want me to slap your product on my kid and exploit her for millions and millions of dollars. That’s how this shit works. Now? Well… sit back, buckle up, and enjoy the ride.
Angie
2004/11/23 at 5:00 amWhat a family!
beachgal
2004/11/23 at 5:01 amShe’s beautiful!
B B
2004/11/23 at 5:01 amMe ! Me! I’m first!
Tabbie
2004/11/23 at 5:02 amSadly I think I’ve seen that hair somewhere recently, but she looks lovely.
Lisa
2004/11/23 at 5:02 amYou favor your mother. She’s a pretty lady.
Heather 2
2004/11/23 at 5:02 amI have a picture of my mother when she was about that age…it’s my favorite picture of her, too.
B B
2004/11/23 at 5:02 amBooger. Nevermind.
koof
2004/11/23 at 5:04 ami can see the resemblance, i think
Alex
2004/11/23 at 5:05 amshe looks alot like you
Sherri
2004/11/23 at 5:06 amI see where you get your eyebrows!
ilva
2004/11/23 at 5:07 amIt’s amazing how much you look like her!(As much as Leta looks like Jon)Are you the one of your siblings who looks the most like your mom? She’s beautiful.
Em
2004/11/23 at 5:08 amWow! You look a lot like her! She is a beautiful lady. This is the amazing Avon lady, huh?
Colleen from NJ
2004/11/23 at 5:10 amMy mom had that same hair.
She’s got that rebel expression in her eyes… or am I just reading into it?
karen
2004/11/23 at 5:11 amlooks like a future avon world sales leader to me!
Sarah
2004/11/23 at 5:11 amBeautiful! You look so much like her, Heather.
I love seeing old photographs.
Mary Lynn
2004/11/23 at 5:12 amYou have the same eyes. When I saw the little thumbnail of her eye I thought it was going to be a picture of you. It is a nice photo of your mom.
Susie
2004/11/23 at 5:15 amWhat a beauty; you do look like her. The thing that strikes me most is the MISCHIEF in those eyes, in that smile. That girl is trouble. I’d hang out with her.
ashley
2004/11/23 at 5:16 amyou look alot like her..
shes really pretty
jodi-no-blog
2004/11/23 at 5:19 amOh yeah, I’m seein’ that rebel look too. Its like a challenge.
“I dare ya…”
Angela
2004/11/23 at 5:19 amShe’s beautiful… I can see where you get your looks from.
Amanda
2004/11/23 at 5:20 amWhat a purdy little lady.
Is EVERYONE in Utah beautiful?
di
2004/11/23 at 5:21 amwow, you really do look like your mother. it’s also neat seeing your reflection in the glass over that picture.
Juliet
2004/11/23 at 5:21 ami just love how i can see your hand in the reflection on the right as you take this photo.
Kieran
2004/11/23 at 5:21 amYou go Mrs AVON world!
stella
2004/11/23 at 5:23 amI bet if you put your pic and leta’s up next to it, you’d see a lot of similarity in those eyes. awesome pic. old black and whites are like holding hands in the dark.
jen
2004/11/23 at 5:23 amGosh, you really look like her! Maybe you;ll turn out to be Great Avon Sales Lady Mk II? 😉
Kimberley H.
2004/11/23 at 5:24 amYou definately look a lot like her.
shana
2004/11/23 at 5:27 amWow-so pretty!
Old photos are so much fun! They have a character that modern kodak prints lack somehow.
Karen
2004/11/23 at 5:29 amYou are going to look like your mom when you get her age.
Anita
2004/11/23 at 5:29 amI like the self confidence in her picture.
I have a picture of my mom from that time, too, and her’s is filled with self doubt. She never really understood how beautiful she was.
Karen
2004/11/23 at 5:30 amI agree with Mary Lynn, when I saw the thumbnail I thought it would be a picture of you.
She’s beautiful – I have a picture of my Grandma in her early twenties at about the same time your mom’s picture was taken, and gosh darnit, weren’t people just so PRETTY back then?
Jenny
2004/11/23 at 5:30 amWhat a GORGEOUS photo. And now we get to see where your good looks come from 😉
Caroline
2004/11/23 at 5:31 amOh my god, I totally thought it was you with a wig on or something. Great picture, she looks beautiful. I’m so jelous of your genetic skinniness though. If I *walked by* a chicken wing I’d gain a couple pounds. As they say, if you can’t make me skinny make all the web bloggers I read fat. But I guess you’re constipated all the time so that makes up for it a little bit.
Still…unfair.
Eat a donut, for me.
kim
2004/11/23 at 5:32 ami have one like that from my mom, too. and i love it..
AndreaBT
2004/11/23 at 5:39 amDead ringer, you are!
Eddie
2004/11/23 at 5:39 amcool. i have some nice ones of my dad from back in the 30’s.
Jessica
2004/11/23 at 5:40 amBeautiful photograph! I had to compare it to the Armstrong family photo from Nov. 6, and…wow…you are so much like your mom!
Lovely.
Fahrvergnugen
2004/11/23 at 5:41 amYou definitely take after your mom for looks. I seriously love her old hairstyle. I’ve really been into vintage hairdos lately, sporting 1940s styles a lot.
melanie
2004/11/23 at 5:45 amyou look just like her! Is your next hair change going to be 60’s inspired?
Regan
2004/11/23 at 5:48 amI know everyone has said this already, but YOU AND YOUR MOM LOOK SO MUCH ALIKE!!! cool!
Maybe you should give the avon stuff a try, you could be a natural!
then again, maybe you shouldn’t. though you did go to a tupperware party, so I think avon might not be such a stretch… 😉
Different Patrick
2004/11/23 at 5:49 amDooce, you do realize that you told the internet EXACTLY how old your mother is, don’t you?
red
2004/11/23 at 5:51 amyou favor her a lot. she is STILL lovely. maybe she should model for Avon? 🙂
kEma
2004/11/23 at 5:51 amDooce,
you are trying to fool us. But we know that’s not your Mum but you at the age of 16. Damn you are really beautiful!
Em
2004/11/23 at 5:55 amI love old family photos. This one is beautiful.
Ima Dumbass
2004/11/23 at 6:07 amHey Dooce
You shoulf try working for Avon based on the fact that you look similarly in facial features, to your mom who is a bigtime Avon lady.
Ignore that you hate frilly. Ignore your other vocations like writing this blog, because you obviously have lots of time on your hands to do Avon on the side. I mean heck, you like sales, right – considering they only had to twist your arm a bit to get you to go to that Tupperware party – oh and the fact you spoke so favorably of that smarmy guy that sold you your house. I bet you’ be reeeel good at sales and enjoy it too!
Nevermind the fact that you’ve said you don’t want to get involved with Avon.
WHO ARE YOU F-ING WEIRDOS? Do you just type the first thing that pops in your head??
dooce
2004/11/23 at 6:10 amIma Dumbass: chill out.
Michelle
2004/11/23 at 6:10 amI would TOTALLY buy Avon products from the lady in the picture.
Jazzy
2004/11/23 at 6:13 amShe’s gorgeous. I can see why she is the Avon World Leader.
TracyDee
2004/11/23 at 6:15 amYou look just like her. You have her eyes.
Mari
2004/11/23 at 6:16 amShe has a Mona Lisa smile – you can’t quite tell what she’s thinking. Beautiful.