The Sims 4 Cottage Living Expansion Pack

"Hoverael;c-17907855" wrote:

Another matter is related to the Crumblebottom cousins, why are they starting so old?

The Crumplebottoms are canon from Sims 1 and Sims 2. Miss Crumplebottom (the one with the purse) was from Sims 1.

Mrs. Crumplebottom - not the same as Miss Crumplebottom from Sims 1 - was from Sims 2. She was actually an object within the game, not a Sim, and couldn't be de-aged or otherwise cheated to be in your family.

From the wiki:

"Mrs. CrumpleBottom, upon viewing in SimPE, is treated as an object. Her data is located in objects.package in the game files. Thus, Mrs. CrumpleBottom cannot be interacted with in any way. Any attempt to interact with her will result in the Sim being lectured. Mrs. CrumpleBottom can be bitten by a vampire, upon which Mrs. CrumpleBottom will have the same stricken gesture as any other bitten Sim, however she does not convert and remains the same. As this autonomous interaction alters the objects.package file, game corruption will occur to the current and every subsequent neighborhoods being played, which can only be resolved by reinstalling the game. It is determined that she is an object, akin to all universal NPCs in the game."

Miss Crumplebottom from Sims 1 was reintroduced in Sims 3 as a young adult. It turns out she was widowed - a couple of times, iirc - and her first name is Agnes. I don't believe the one from Sims 2 was ever given a first name, but I could be wrong.

I think they're starting old because that's part of the joke throughout the series. It wouldn't be nearly as funny having a young woman hit you with a purse for kissing someone.