Guilty Pleasure: 60% Of Men Secretly Fancy Their Mother-In-Law

MORE than half of men fancy their mother-in-law – traditionally portrayed in comedy as craggy battle-axes and meddlesome dragons.

Yes, forget everything you think you know about mother-in-laws, because apparently one in six men think their mother-in-law is hotter than their wife.

The study of 1,500 men also found that a quarter of married men have a genuine crush on their mother-in-law, and 31 per cent reckon their mother-in-law is secretly attracted to them too.

In slightly less weird territory, two thirds of men said they’d be happy if their partner aged as well as her mum, and nearly half thought their partner’s style was influenced by her mum.

A spokesman for fashion brand Peter Hahn, who commissioned the survey, said: ‘It’s easy to pigeonhole older women and sometimes hard for them to feel sexy or appreciated but this study reveals how admired so many mother-in-laws actually are, both for their appearances, style and personality overall.

‘Most women would actually take it as a complement that their mother is thought of as attractive as it’s a great indication that style runs in the family’

Yeah, attractive’s one thing, but more attractive than them is quite another.

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