Old photo of US singer Cher and her mother is being passed off as a recent image
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- Published on September 11, 2020 at 15:37
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The photo was posted on Facebook on June 12, 2020, showing Cher posing next to her mother Georgia Holt. The post, shared 69,000 times, reads: “OMG.. 74-year-old Cher with her 94-year-old mother.”
The same photo was also shared on Facebook here, here, here and here, with users praising the pair’s youthful appearances.
But the posts are misleading. A reverse image search showed an article published on the website of British newspaper Daily Mail on June 21, 2012, with the headline: “Never too old for leggings! Cher defies her 66 years as she steps out in skintight pants”.
The photo caption reads: “Good genes: It is obvious Cher gets her youthful looks from her mother, Georgia Holt, 86 after she posted a picture of them before they met Barack Obama earlier this month.”
The image was among a set tweeted by Cher on June 7, 2012, before she met Obama with a friend and family.
http://t.co/zBdflcbd http://t.co/7kBtvyQu http://t.co/gBBw0MwR http://t.co/epG6U82e B4 these pics.Chaos!
— Cher (@cher) June 7, 2012
Such Fun
Cher regularly tweets about Holt and four years ago, she posted this image and said: “This is what 70 & 90 looks like in my family… Mom has NO MAKE UP ON”.
A more recent post on Cher’s twitter account, from December 11, 2018, showed a photo of Holt at the age of 92.
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