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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 305399" data-attributes="member: 27">No leading lady "of a certain age" wants their character's adult children around too much, since they serve as a visual reminder to the audience just how old the character would have to be, even if she doesn't look that old.  I could name a dozen such instances off the top of my head where a female character's adult kids are banished from the show as she wants to continue to present herself as being child-bearing age.  Late-in-life pregnancies are often written in just to reinforce the gaslighting of the audience--isn't she already a grandmother? Why is she having a baby now?  Add in the extreme SORAS-ing that B&B excels at and having the leading lady's kids all in one room ends up looking ridiculous.As I said this is not unique to Brooke, so I'm not bashing her in particular.  When a leading lady stays in her role for an extended period of time, the uneven, rapid aging of her onscreen kids ends up making the actress's own age come into question.</blockquote>