Most  of us hit our thirties and begin to fret about the onset of the signs of aging:  the wrinkles, the greying hair, the cellulite, the saggy bottoms.

But  grandmother Anne Bolton is already 47 and none of these predictable side effects  have happened. And she really wishes they would.

The  mother-of-four says she is constantly being mistaken for a woman half her age,  and Anne, a market stall worker from Bristol, says looking like a 20-year-old is  actually ruining her life – and now she’s thinking about having cosmetic surgery  to make herself look older.

 

Anne says that her youthful  looks have ruined a marriage and two long-term relationships, as younger men  constantly chat her up. She also believes jealous friends have abandoned her  because she makes them look older.

Her eldest son, who has  recently become a father, hates being seen with her after being mistaken for her  boyfriend.

Now size eight Anne fears  her youthful looks will mean a lifetime of loneliness because she only ever gets  chatted up by toyboys she has nothing in common with.

She says: ‘Everyone wants  to look younger but I’m not joking or exaggerating when I say looking young is  ruining my life. I would do anything for  a few wrinkles to look my age.

‘Why I have none is a  mystery to me but the older I get, the bigger the problem becomes for me. I need  someone to invent the reverse of Botox because I’m desperate to look  older.’

Anne married her first  husband at the age of 24, but within a few years they were bickering over her  looks.

She said: ‘I was in my late  twenties but my husband noticed much younger men looking  at me and he started to get jealous.

‘I wasn’t interested, but  as the years passed I remained looking the same age and he looked older, which  led to even more rows.

‘We were the same age but  he hated people thinking he’d married a younger woman so I did my best to dress  older.’

 

Eventually it drove them  apart. And despite having two sons together – Arthur, now 25, and 19-year-old  Kevin – they got divorced when Anne, who also does some work as a TV extra, was  32.

Four years later, she  embarked on a long-term relationship with her second partner, who worked for the  Royal Mail.

He was just two years older  than Anne who, at 36, was often taken for a twenty-something.

She says: ‘At first he  loved it and complimented me on my appearance. He said he was proud to be with  me.

‘But soon the looks from  younger guys triggered arguments. But what could I do about it?’

The couple had two sons –  Joshua, now 13, and seven-year-old Jacob – yet even being a busy mother-of-four  took no toll on Anne’s looks.

She reveals: ‘When he was  42 I still looked 22. People didn’t believe I had four children.

‘He hated people asking if  he was my dad or brother. I could see the way things were going  again. I would have changed it if I  could, only there is no operation to make you look older.’

After five years together,  the couple split up and Anne feared she would never find love again.

 

She says: ‘I was only  chatted up by young guys. At first it was flattering but then it got  boring.

‘They want to talk about  cars and nightclubs but I needed something more. There’s no way I would date someone the same age as my son. Toyboys do not interest me at all.’

Eventually, aged 42, Anne  met a 32-year-old.

He was mature enough for  her yet, she hoped, young enough not to be concerned over her looks. But she soon faced exactly the same  problems.

She said: ‘People would  stare at us as if we shouldn’t be together. He even got called a dirty old  man. Nobody would believe I was a decade  older than him and men would approach me to chat me up when I was with him  because they thought he couldn’t possibly be my partner.

‘It became a  nightmare. I was even accused of being a  gold-digger because it looked like I was with a much older man. It was driving us both mad. It led to rows. It was  like history repeating itself.’

Earlier this year, after  five years together, they split up. Anne revealed: ‘Once again I found myself  alone. I was heartbroken that my life was being so badly affected by the way I  looked.’

She has since struggled to  meet any men her own age but has no shortage of offers from men 20 years  younger.

She says ‘People think that  must be great but I am a grown woman with four sons. I don’t want to date a kid. I want a real man, but men my age don’t want to date  me because it makes them look like perverts. I feel caught in a trap and I don’t know what to do.’

It’s not just her love life  that has suffered because of her youthful appearance. Anne used to enjoy shopping trips with eldest son Arthur, but he got fed up of his mum being mistaken for his girlfriend – making it impossible for him to meet anyone either.

Anne says: ‘Girls just  assumed he was taken. He found it embarrassing to have to explain to them I was  his mother.

‘I couldn’t believe that me  looking young was stopping both me and my son from meeting anyone.’

Friendships have  also been  wrecked by jealousy over her looks. She says: ‘As they started to look older and  I just looked younger, my friends saw me as a threat to them.

‘Their husbands would tell  me how young I looked and it annoyed them so they stopped inviting me out. It  wasn’t my fault but what could I do?

‘Women my own age think  standing next to me makes them look old. I can see them looking me up and down –  I’ve even been called a bitch.

‘So I have to hang around  with much younger women. They are good fun but deep down we’re not into the same  things. Some are younger than my son but  what choice do I have?

‘Because of the way I look  I don’t feel I fit in anywhere – with young people, or those my own  age. I bring out the bitchy side in women  so I’m scared to try to make new friends.’

Anne, who uses just soap  and water and Palmer’s face cream, has even started examining her face in the  mirror in the hope of finding a wrinkle.

She admits: ‘Most women  dread them while I am desperate to find just one. But my face and body are  totally smooth.

‘I’ve lost count of the  times people have asked me if I could bottle my secret and sell it – I’d be a  millionaire if I could.’

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