Mom Can’t Bear Her Look-Alike Daughter’s Relationships & Creates Problems for Her Love Life - ‘Twin’ Girl Speaks Up

• A mom and her daughter are strikingly similar despite having a 33-year age gap.
• The resemblance is taking a toll on the 23-year-old daughter's love life, with men intimidated by the duo's closeness.
• It's not just the woman's boyfriends who find their closeness weird, but so do the rest of their family.

Many moms and their daughters are mistaken for twins; it's often a compliment for moms and a source of annoyance for their kids. Or, it's a reasonably accepted fact and not something they constantly think about.

For a particular mom-and-daughter duo, they took their resemblance up a notch by owning it. Since Catherine Galasso-Vigorito gave birth to her daughter Gabriella, they'd been inseparable.

They have the same facial features, build, and hair. When Gabriella grew up, they started to sport matching outfits, makeup looks, and getting into the same activities.

While it seems like an adorable way to strengthen their bond, those around them don't always feel the same way. Catherine's other children, Lauren and Sophia, don't accept how their mom mimics her middle child, Gabriella.

Their Closeness Affects Their Relationships

"My mum is very protective over me, so it's caused problems because she wants me to always be hanging out with her – no one else," Gabriella once revealed.

Outside of their family circle, their closeness has made it difficult for Gabriella to have a lasting relationship. "When I have boyfriends, mum says we are in the 'love triangle,'" she admitted.

Potential suitors get intimidated by Gabriella's closeness to her mother. While her most recent ex-boyfriend accepted their dynamics to be with her, he used to do double-takes on the two women and couldn't help but get confused at times.

Men often mistook Catherine for Gabriella. While Catherine takes that as a compliment, it's made things extremely difficult for her daughter.

Gabriella is the first to admit that her relationship with her mom was unconventional, but she's accepted it. She and her mom understand each other and are best friends.

Gabriella and Catherine nicknamed Lauren and Sophia "the simple sisters." While the mom-and-daughter duo liked standing out, Lauren and Sophia liked blending in with the crowd.

Despite them not being supportive of the duo's shenanigans, it doesn't make them bad sisters. They support Gabriella's career, mainly modeling and being a social media content creator.

Gabriella and Catherine have recently been working on getting the former into professional pageantry.

Gabriella and Her Mom Do TikToks Together

Gabriella and her mom constantly post their matching outfits on TikTok. One video racked up 17 million views, showing the pair's uncanny similarity.

Fans gushed about how close Gabriella and her mom were. They called them twins; others even admitted their jealousy of the mom-and-daughter duo's closeness.

Internet users spoke about Gabriella and Catherine's resemblance throughout their TikTok video comment sections. One fan even commented that she thought there was a mirror between the two women.

Gabriella and Catherine have recently been working on getting the former into professional pageantry. While she's been joining beauty contests since she was 19, Gabriella wants to become Miss USA.

Her mom, Catherine, was previously a Miss Connecticut USA candidate. Although she didn't make it to Miss Universe, she has high hopes that her daughter could finish what she started.

More than becoming a beauty queen, Catherine wants her daughter to learn all the important life lessons by joining beauty contests. From Gabriella's point of view, she wants to follow in her mom's footsteps and make her proud.

While being her mom's lookalike has brewed trouble in her relationships, she wouldn't change a thing. She constantly spoke about her admiration of her mom:

"I love being my mom's twin. It makes me feel really great. She is so beautiful and I look up to her – she's my biggest situation."

As for Catherine, she considers it the greatest compliment to be mistaken as her daughter's "twin" sister. She believes their constant matching outfits bring them closer together. She recommends it for any mom and daughter who want to build a lifelong connection.

While it's wonderful to see moms and their daughters get along, that isn't always the case. In another story, a mom admitted she's grown to hate her daughter after adopting her at 14 months old.