- How you feeling, mom?
- Feel like I might have handprints left on my face
when I remove my hands.
- No, I mean, are you excited?
- Yes, I'm excited, my heart is racing!
- So, today I'm going to be transformed
into my mom.
- I remember a phase of not wanting
to hang out with you, like, in my late teens, mid teens,
and then for my early 20s until now,
you're, like, one of my best friends.
- My mom and I have a really great relationship.
I would consider her not just my best friend,
but also my personal inspiration.
She's a great mom.
Don't cry!
- I'm recreating a picture of when you were 23,
which is how old I am right now.
- Well, when I was 23, I was having the time
of my life.
I was carrying around this cute little bundle of joy.
- Allex has always liked to dress up
like Disney characters,
and I think in this one, she was in her Jasmine phase,
and I was fixing her hair.
- As she did until 9th grade, probably.
- I was 28 at the time.
At that time, I was pregnant with
my fourth child.
- [Allex] She makes the cookies for all my friends,
she does our laundry, she has us over for movie nights.
She was married and already had a child
by the time she was my age, and I'm nowhere
even close to that.
I barely moved to the place I wanted to live
and gotten a job that I wanted to get
just recently, the past few months, so
I think she was a lot more ahead
in her lifetime at the age of 25
than I am.
- [Michelle] Growing up in a mixed-race family,
was a very different experience than
I think a lot of people have.
A lot of kids told me when I was younger that, like,
I didn't look like my mom, or it was impossible
for my mom to be my mom,
and it's so interesting to me because
I think I actually have a lot of her same
physical features, and the only difference
is skin color.
- There's four of us,
and we always came first, always.
And she's just the first person I call
for anything, and so it's just knowing
that she's there and being a friend
more than a mom.
She's a very hard worker,
so even though she was bringing up four kids,
she always worked full time,
but she was always there.
Why do I feel nervous?
- Okay, and I also have no idea what I look like, so.
- Oh my gosh.
- [Voiceover] One, two, three.
- Oh my God!
- Does it look funny?
Do you like it?
I haven't seen myself.
- Oh my gosh!
You're like my twinsie.
- Oh my gosh.
- Do I look like you?
- Wow, yeah, and aunt Velta.
Oh my god.
(laughter)
(screaming)
- Oh my god, I sound like you.
- Oh my god.
That's weird.
- [Ladonna] I know, it's what I used to look like.
- Why was your hair so short?
- Because I had two kids.
- I do look like aunt Velta.
- You do, I know.
(upbeat, happy music)
- It's perfect.
- [Yolanda] Yeah.
- This is bizarre.
It's like looking at myself, well,
it's like looking at my mom
through my five-year-old eyes.
I remember seeing this,
and I remember playing with her
when she looked like this
and dressed like this.
- Just, it kind of makes me, I don't know,
kind of sad.
- Don't be sad.
- Well, it is.
It's just kind of like, man, I miss those days.
- I love your dreams,
and I love your determination.
- She's just a 'yes' woman.
She says yes to everything,
and I love that about my mom.
- I love how kind you are,
and nice you are, and how much you gave up
to provide a life for me.
- I love that when Allex does set a goal,
she gives 110% percent.
Thanks for being my rock.
- I love you.
- I love you, too.
(happy, upbeat music)