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[quote=Anonymous]I recently realized that my 13 year-old daughter started comparing herself to me in terms of beauty, attractiveness, femininity.

So I can no longer be simply the cuddly "mama bear", but I feel like I need to become a more attractive woman myself in order for her to feel proud of me.

By the way, I think that her new approach is completely normal, so I don't mean this as a criticism.

I must confess that I am no longer as attractive/thin/put-together as before her birth, and I need to put in more effort. (I went from a size 2 to currently a size 10/12).

I remember back as a teen I considered my mom to be fat, ugly, unattractive, and I think she was all that. But I don't want to be.

Somehow most of the moms at my daughter's school seem to be older than me, so this issue hasn't occurred to me. But recently at an event I saw a girl my daughter's age with an attractive mother, and I wished I were that mom.

Did you have similar insights when your daughters reached their teenage years?

Thanks in advance.[/quote]

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