I’m a tired mum with no Botox or filler but cruel trolls say I look ’20 years older’ and compare me to Pat Butcher
FURIOUS Becky Jane Boulton has been compared to EastEnders icon Pat Butcher, played by 82 year old actress Pam St Clement.
Becky shared a video showing her usual eyebrow makeup routine but was horrified when it went viral – for all the wrong reasons.
The post was quickly bombarded with cruel comments from people criticising her looks and skin, and saying she looks decades older than her real age.
“I didn’t expect all the horrible comments about my face – someone said I look like Pat Butcher,” said Becky, a Manchester-based stay-at-home mum and carer.
“People said no way am I only 33 and that I look 20 years older.
“They said my skin shouldn’t look this way at this age, and that my makeup is disgusting.
“One person even said my boyfriend thinks I’m ugly but doesn’t have the guts to say it.
“I’m 33 and I’ve never had any work done.
“I thought it was normal to have some lines and wrinkles by this age.
“I’d never looked at myself and seen an issue with my skin – or my make-up application for that matter.”
Becky’s initial video was sharing her eyebrow makeup routine, jumping on an “eyebrow blindness” trend – where people shared their preferences for shaping their brows.
The mum was horrified when it unexpectedly went viral with 345,000 views, despite only having 700 followers.
She added: “I fully expected some comments about my eyebrow – that’s why I posted it – and that genuinely wouldn’t have bothered me.
“We all like different things. It would be really boring if we all looked the same.
“But I never expected the hate to follow to what I thought was a positive video.”
In a follow-up video to address the trolls, Becky shared a video of herself with no filters.
She wrote: “Madness that a video of my eyebrows can bring such nasty comments.
“This is my face…no filters.
“I’m 33, I’ve never had Botox or filler, so yes my face has lines and wrinkles.
“I like how my make-up looks…that’s why I do it this way.
People really need to calm down.
In the video, she shows her skin up close, moving her face to show her lines and wrinkles proudly.
She added: “I thought I’d post another video asking for kindness because even though I was OK, not everyone could receive hate like that and still be OK.
“Words can massively hurt people.
“I had a moment where I was upset because my phone was literally blowing up with notifications and it was just so many cruel comments, but I received so many kind ones as well from people who don’t even know me.
“I’d like to say to the trolls – your words will never bring me down.
“I’ve worked so hard on myself over the years. I lost a lot of weight and found a lot of self-love.
“Nobody is going to take that away from me.
“Saying all these horrible things to me won’t make you a better person.
“Remember I’m a human with feelings, I’m somebody’s child.
“My mum had to stop reading the comments because she found it so upsetting.
“These accounts are all no names and no pictures – they’re people hiding behind fake accounts who would never have the guts to show themselves.
“The kind comments I got were all real people, real accounts.
“We can all have opinions but if you have nothing nice to say just don’t say anything it’s that simple.
“Just be kind.
“Use your time to find your own self-love instead of trying to take other people.”
What made Pat Butcher so iconic?
SHE was one of the most legendary characters to have graced Albert Square
The EastEnders legend was one of the BBC soap’s longest-running characters before she was killed off in 2012.
Pat Butcher made her debut on EastEnders in 1986, and stayed for 25 years, becoming known for her impressive earring collection, as well as her friendship-turned-rivalry with Peggy Mitchell (played by the late Barbara Windsor).
Pat and Peggy became bitter rivals when Frank had an affair with Peggy.
The love triangle is often cited as the most famous in EastEnders history.
After her exit Pam St Clement revealed that she didn’t actually want her character to be killed off: “It was very, very difficult. I was saying goodbye to a character I’d inhabited for almost 26 years and, while I had chosen to leave EastEnders, I didn’t want Pat to die,” she said in 2015.
During her quarter of a century on screen, Pat was at the centre of many dramatic storylines.
She had two sons – David and Simon – from her previous marriages to Pete Beale and Brian Wicks when she arrived in Walford.
But it was Frank Butcher, played by Mike Reid, who was Pat’s biggest love was and they moved into The Vic in 1989.
Pat set up a taxi firm called PatCabs but ended up in prison after killing a teenage girl while driving over the limit on Christmas Eve.
After splitting from Frank, Pat married Roy Evans but still couldn’t resist her ex-husband, and began an affair with Frank four years later.
Roy discovered the affair before he died in 2003. Pat was cut out of Roy’s will by his son Barry, played by Shaun Williamson.
She was later forced to implicate Frank’s daughter Janine Butcher, played by Charlie Brooks, at Barry’s murder trial after she killed him.