I lowkey aspire to look this high status (White Lotus Reference)

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand this. Those women look generic in that "suburban mom with money" boring kind of way. Why would you aspire to look like this?

Boring to whom? At least it gives them a few more years till their Last Fckable Day.

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I think the women Op is describing look great. No complaints here!

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand this. Those women look generic in that "suburban mom with money" boring kind of way. Why would you aspire to look like this?

PP is a suburban women who wants to look like she has money. It's not hard to understand.

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Anonymous wrote:Carrie Coon Looks great and must have been so dim for her to have a break from her Gilded Age stuffy mom role

The Gilded Age clothes are way more fun tho.

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Anonymous wrote:Serious question, why do some of you see posts like this and feel the need to respond like “How gauche! Why, my old money grandmama would never allow this! I’d much rather be in the country with the dogs!”

No one cares. You don’t get an award because your version of aspirational is different from someone else’s.

Agree - the point is to have a little fun, and these people are so threatened! And like, if you have to say it….

I think the country horse/dog/old money people are being facetious? I hope? Like just playing with the DCUM trope of everyone wanting to look like they've been rich forever and feeling terrified of being caught not having generational wealth.

I had assumed they were trying to be playful and make jokes too. Why else would they read and post on the beauty forum?

That post didn’t seem out of place to me. Op said she aspired to that WL look and PP responded that she aspired to the British queen galoshes and dog look. I mean, isn’t the point of this thread for people to share silly fashion aspirations (rather than to comment on which of the three stars has the best plastic surgery)? We’re a little all over the map here so I think dog lady is fine.

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Anonymous wrote:The two on the right look great. The one on the left is the only one that looks basic.

Out with the Birkenstock Crew.

I don’t think you know what basic means. You can look good and basic at the same time. All of them look basic. 2 of them look better than the third. That’s all.

Adding, though, that Carrie Coon is my fave of the three. She’s the best actress for sure.

The Carrie Coon character not looking as attractive as the other two looks to be a plot point. It does keep coming up (remember how the other two were going on about how "You look amazing" and "no you do" and awkwardly leaving her out and she was right there?).

I personally find Carrie Coon to be the most beautiful of the 3. And, at the same time, I’m so trained to unconsciously read appearance signaling that I also found her the least “you look amazing”. My brain kept switching back and forth.

She's the least altered of the three. Leslie Bibb is the oldest and she's in great shape but she's also had a lot done to her face. Monaghan's work is more subtle but she's still had quite a bit of work done. Coon is the youngest but clearly the least "touched." I would be somewhat surprised if she doesn't at least do Botox for big events, but when she acts her face looks really natural and I really don't see evidence of anything. She takes roles that are not necessarily flattering and seems to lean into her natural looks (beautiful but aging naturally, looks more like a middle class woman than a movie star) while the others lean more heavily in their beauty and probably have more invested in maintaining it.

I wonder if they laughed about this while filming -- the fact that their characters acknowledge having work done that is probably reflective of what the actresses themselves have done. Or if it was just not acknowledged.

Anyway, even if she's the least "preserved" of the group, Coon is the one I'd most want to look like because she's pretty and fit but looks her age and looks at home in her skin. I would take that over looking more dramatically gorgeous but having to maintain a lot of procedures and feeling the pressure if that all the time. It would be nice for a minute but long term it's too much work for me.

Leslie Bibb has had too much work done. It doesn't look natural or good. She would be prettier if she had not done whatever she has had done bc like so many women who do that, she looks strange. And Moynahan is gorgeous but teetering very close to the edge. She is someone who would age so beautifully and does not need to do "work." I really don't understand why women don't think they can age and still be beautiful.

PP here and I do think Bibb's facial work is starting to border on Joker territory, which happens a lot when someone is super thin with like zero body fat and also getting the fillers and botox and eye lifts and all that.

However, the looks is working so well in this specific role that it doesn't bother me at all. It's totally believable to me that this particular person would look exactly like this. Also despite clearly having had a lot of work, her face is is still super expressive (perhaps they all laid off the Botox before filming) and her super tight face and filled lips are so perfectly conducive to her fake smiles and faux concern that she's working in all these scenes that I don't care that it's the result of too much work -- she's so perfectly cast.

This is like Nicole Kidman. If you get enough fillers the only roles you can play are rich lady scared of losing her youth.

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Anonymous wrote:Carrie Coon Looks great and must have been so dim for her to have a break from her Gilded Age stuffy mom role

The Gilded Age clothes are way more fun tho.

Plus Carre is much prettier as a dark brunette. The blonde does nothing for her.

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Anonymous wrote:So you guys think these three look better than Parker? I like her look and esp her style so much more! Her character feels comfortable with the reality of middle age yet still attractive.

Do I think the Trio (LB, MM, CC) looks better than Victoria (PP)? Every day of the week and twice on Sunday, honestly. I'm 39.

The Trio physically presents as vibrant, 40-something moms who prioritize their health, still invest in beauty and fashion, and believe some of their best days are ahead of them. I love Kate's chic bob and leopard one-piece and Jaclyn's cute crop tops, for example. I loved that all 3 were wearing cute fitness sets, despite Piper's comment.

Victoria is veering into asexual frump between the caftans and oddly conservative pajamas. Something tells me that her character would wear swim skirts. ::shudder::

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Anonymous wrote:Meh. I'd rather look like whatever, wear old boots, drive a Land Rover with a pile of dogs to my generationally owned castle.

Me, too! But I'll take a cottage in the woods instead of the castle.

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Anonymous wrote:Serious question, why do some of you see posts like this and feel the need to respond like “How gauche! Why, my old money grandmama would never allow this! I’d much rather be in the country with the dogs!”

No one cares. You don’t get an award because your version of aspirational is different from someone else’s.

Agree - the point is to have a little fun, and these people are so threatened! And like, if you have to say it….

I think the country horse/dog/old money people are being facetious? I hope? Like just playing with the DCUM trope of everyone wanting to look like they've been rich forever and feeling terrified of being caught not having generational wealth.

I had assumed they were trying to be playful and make jokes too. Why else would they read and post on the beauty forum?

That post didn’t seem out of place to me. Op said she aspired to that WL look and PP responded that she aspired to the British queen galoshes and dog look. I mean, isn’t the point of this thread for people to share silly fashion aspirations (rather than to comment on which of the three stars has the best plastic surgery)? We’re a little all over the map here so I think dog lady is fine.

DP. Because it was snarky. In that "I'm not like other girls" and "old money people would NEVER" way that tends to pop up any time a traditionally feminine woman is praised for her looks.

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Anonymous wrote:So you guys think these three look better than Parker? I like her look and esp her style so much more! Her character feels comfortable with the reality of middle age yet still attractive.

Do I think the Trio (LB, MM, CC) looks better than Victoria (PP)? Every day of the week and twice on Sunday, honestly. I'm 39.

The Trio physically presents as vibrant, 40-something moms who prioritize their health, still invest in beauty and fashion, and believe some of their best days are ahead of them. I love Kate's chic bob and leopard one-piece and Jaclyn's cute crop tops, for example. I loved that all 3 were wearing cute fitness sets, despite Piper's comment.

Victoria is veering into asexual frump between the caftans and oddly conservative pajamas. Something tells me that her character would wear swim skirts. ::shudder::

Np I agree. I think the trio represent a younger look. Not age inappropriate, but more modern. I don’t think look Victoria looks bad by any means but she is definitely wearing more mature fashion. What the trio is wearing makes sense for beautiful, fit, women their age.

Also, they do look a little basic but I personally don’t dislike a basic look. They all wear it well.

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Anonymous wrote:It is very effective wealth signaling. You have to have the spare time and bandwidth to be hitting the gym 5 times a week. My wife (43) looks like this and, props to her, it's a lot of work. But I definitely appreciate it.

At 44 I could pull off a tiny bikini and I spent zero hours in a gym, just walking and doing some floor exercises and intermittent fasting. I am not rich and work for a living. After 50 it's a different ballgame due to hormones and none of these ladies are over 50.

I love how these posts bring out the above in people. It's an anonymous message board, folks.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t watch this show, but I know all 3 actresses and when I saw this picture I had no idea that it was any of them. Now that I know the middle one is MM, I clearly see it just her hair is now blondish (I prefer it dark, but she is aging fantastically). Leslie Bibb is unrecognizable to me, and I barely recognize Carrie Coon. Which makes me think at least LB and CC have had some cosmetic work- their looks are not just a result of hours at the gym.

Sorry, you’re wrong. Monaghan has had plenty of work done and Coon very little.

+1 and though Coon is the youngest she looks older than the others as a result. I think I remember reading somewhere that she smokes. All three are very thin, which tends to make dermatological interventions more pressing.

She is supposed to - it's quite literally a feature of her character on the show. Maybe it's the same in real life as well, but it's an intentional plot point of the show so it's to be expected.

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Anonymous wrote:Aren't these actresses in their 20s-40s? Not their 50s and 60s.

Carrie: 44
Michelle: 48
Leslie: 51

So they were all one year younger when they shot this with Hollywood lighting, cameras, a team of professional stylists, plus access to Hollywood plastic surgeons and dermatologists. Nobody their age looks like this walking around day to day.

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Anonymous wrote:Meh. I'd rather look like whatever, wear old boots, drive a Land Rover with a pile of dogs to my generationally owned castle.

Haha me too!

Then go start a thread for people who aspire to look like Queen Camilla

They're poseur wannabes who lie to themselves that they can successfully fake looking old money in a mid-tier suburb sh**shack driving a 2010 Volvo. It's comical.