IT used to be sisters who would argue about who looked the most fashionable and alluring to boys. But these embarrassed daughters are at loggerheads with their MOTHERS over their revealing fashion and outrageous behaviour.
Kobie and Sharon
SHARON HUNTE might be mum to three children, but her clothes rival any glamour model’s.
For the 40-year-old businesswoman likes nothing better than donning hot pants and a bikini top to show off her best assets – particularly her three-times surgically enlarged breasts.
The soon-to-be grandmother, who is mother to Kobie, 18, Regan, 13 and four-year-old Kenzie, thinks she will be a “glam-ma” thanks to her love of socialising in next-to-nothing clothes at all times of the day.
Sharon, from East Ham, East London, says: “I’m in reverse roles with my daughter – I like to dress young, tight and skimpy – and she’s too frumpy.
“Well, I’ve spent so much money on my boobs that I may as well show them off.
“I even drive a forklift at my boyfriend’s company in hotpants.
“My idol is Jordan. I love the way she looks and even have most of her clothes myself.
“I just feel empty if I am covered up as I don’t get the attention I love. I thrive on it.
“I have always been this way, and I don’t think I will ever change.
“My look makes me who I am, and people love it.
“I just have to nip to Tesco in my hotpants and I have made plenty of new friends. I just love standing out.”
But Kobie, who is a gymnastics coach and expecting a baby girl in March, is a little less sure about her mum’s look. While her brothers turn a blind eye, Kobie’s taste for laid-back loungewear and shy personality means she finds living with her mum’s outrageous ways very hard.
She says: “Mum – you’re 40! Dress like it! Mum does have the perfect body, but she shows off too much of it.
“She looks more gorgeous when she’s covered up.
“My mum’s going to be a grandma. The flesh-flashing has to stop.
“I am so close to my mum and I wouldn’t change her personality for the world, but I think the clothes are OTT.
“Since she split with my dad nine years ago, she has had her boobs enlarged and her clothes have got smaller and smaller.
“She has never been shy, and has even turned up at parents’ evenings at school in very little clothes.
“All the other mums gawp, while the male teachers get too nervous to talk to her.
“She’s constantly embarrassing me like that – like on my 15th birthday when we went in a limo to a restaurant with all of my friends.
“She was leaning out of the window of the car poking her bum out, then after a few glasses of wine at the restaurant she got on the table and started singing ‘Don’t you wish your mumma was hot like me’.
“My friends think she is the coolest mum ever.
“I do think she is beautiful and a good laugh but she would look better covered up, especially now she is going to be a grandmother.”
Jessica and Allison
ALLISON LETHEREN owns three top-end boutiques – which puts style firmly at the top of the agenda for the single mum and her daughter Jessica.
Mum Allison Jayne Letheren 42 with Daughter Jessica Louise Letheren 17 from Swansea Wales
‘I live, eat and breathe style’ … Allison Letheren and her daughter Jessica dress to impress
Both Allison, 42, and only child Jessica, 17, dress to impress all of the time, thanks to the influence of the family business on their lust for labels.
The pair, who live in Swansea, dress in high-fashion designs and are rarely seen in casual clobber.
They are very close and spend a lot of time together at social gatherings and dinner dances, often being mistaken for sisters. But there are signs of tension in their relationship.
The A-level student now wants Allison to dress more like a normal mother.
She says: “Mum has hogged the limelight for years now. It’s time for her to move over and give me a chance to shine.
“When I was growing up I used to watch Mum getting ready and totally aspired to be just like her.
“Now I am 17, I thought it would be me getting the attention, but all the boys at school comment on how she is hotter than me. I want the boys to fancy me and not her.
“Sometimes she is head-to-toe in a ballgown for a night on the town, which can be a bit much.
“She is in her forties and should definitely tone down. It’s time for her to hang up her gladrags and dress normally.”
But Allison defends her style. “I love it when people think Jess and I are sisters. It’s really flattering. Obviously, I can see how Jess might get embarrassed too.
“But my ‘mini me’ daughter needs to stop copying her mum’s style.
“Jessica herself dresses more maturely than an average 17-year-old, so I think it is her who should dress more her age, rather than me.
“Fashion is my identity and looking well turned out is part of the job.
“I have made a success out of my work and like to show that in how I dress. My mother was a glamour puss and her mother before – it’s just the way we are. I could never slob about in jeans and a T-shirt.
” I live, eat and breathe fashion and style. I won’t change.”
Amber and Lisa
LISA BENNETT was a rebellious youngster and loved nothing more than donning skin-tight neon clothes and hitting the rave clubs with a glow stick.
Fast-forward 15 years and Lisa still hasn’t changed her taste in clothes or nights out – even though she’s now a 36-year-old mum of two.
Mum Lisa Bennett 36 with Daughter Amber Bennett 15 from Bedfont Middlesex
‘Nan sews me outfits in PVC and faux fur’ … Lisa embarrasses her daughter Amber
Most weekends she takes a trip to London from her home in Bedfont, Middlesex, and parties into the small hours with her pals while daughters Amber, 15, and Ebony, 12, stay with family.
She says: “I love the atmosphere in clubs, the clothes I get to wear and the new friends I always meet.
“I suppose it reminds me of happy times when I was just a teenager.
“I am a single parent, but don’t go out with the intention of meeting men.
“I’m not interested in that, I just love meeting friends and dancing the night away.
“I also hate being the same as everyone else, so I won’t just go out to places meant for people my age, or wear clothes that I am expected to wear. My 81-year-old nan sews me unique outfits from PVC and faux fur so I really stand out – everyone thinks it is fabulous, except Amber of course.”
Since having a breast enlargement six years ago, Lisa has not been able to resist flashing even more flesh and asks her nan to sew her outfits smaller and smaller.
“I love bra tops, hot pants and fishnets. And of course they all have to be in neon colours.”
Amber feels she is the only responsible one of the family, as her father is not around and her little sister loves her mum’s look.
Amber says: “My friends get jealous that Mum is so cool, and are envious that when I am 18 she can take me clubbing. But if she carries on wearing those clothes, I wouldn’t be seen dead with her.”
But Lisa thinks her daughter is just being a typical embarrassed teen.
She says: “I think Amber is just going through a teenage phase. When she is older, she’ll be thankful I was never a boring, dowdy old mum.”
So this is a new show to air on BBC Three show Hotter Than My Daughter, starting on Thursday at 8.30pm, airs the debate. The public are asked whether mother or daughter is in need of an image change and whose fashion sense is best. tune in if you can!
