Is it normal that my mom is shallow now?
Recently my mom has been having all kinds of plastic surgeries done to make herself look younger. All she ever talks about now is how beautiful she looks and how ugly everyone else is.
She goes out and wears all these expensive dresses and OF COURSE she is always the best looking of all her friends. She describes many of her friends as "fat" or "old looking".
She recently asked me to help her set up a blog and Facebook and she agonizes over what photos of herself to put up. She sends out dozens of friend requests a day to complete strangers just so that they will visit her profile. She has said that she wants enough people to visit it so that she can become famous.
She also went to a high school reunion months ago, and every time I talk to her she always brings up the fact that everyone there was so ugly. As part of the conversation, she always asks me something like, "Why is it that I look so good and they look so old and ugly?" and not asking in a rhetorical sense - she expects me to respond somehow as if this is a legitimate question.
She wasn't like this when I was growing up. In fact she always taught me to live humbly and to value people for who they are, not how they look. And that's how I live now. And I think she's acting very foolishly.
I also don't want to say anything though because I think it would be wrong to go out of my way just to wreck her confidence.
Is it normal?