I'm Always Mistaken For My Son's Girlfriend

With her clear skin, enviable figure and thick, dark hair, social worker Pamela Jacobs looks every inch the yummy mummy.

But while she might look like a young mum in her late twenties or early thirties, Mrs Jacobs is actually 52 - and has a 21-year-old son named Marley to prove it.

So youthful does the Leeds mother-of-one appear, she has been offered student rail fares and is told she must by lying when she reveals her real age.