Celebrities from Kaley Cuoco to Kristen Bell are obsessed with these innovative reading glasses created by 2 sisters in honor of their late mom
Sisters Jennifer Hutt and Stacy Fritz felt frustrated by their reading glasses. While at a hair salon, they both lamented the fact that they couldn’t wear their glasses to flip through magazines while getting their hair colored without getting hair dye all over the frames.
As Plato once said, “Necessity is the mother of invention,” so the sisters decided to revolutionize traditional readers by creating flexible frames — and Bunny Eyez was born.
The patent-pending glasses, which come in five styles and four colors each, cost just $27 and allow you to tilt the frames forward so you can look down to read your notes during a presentation while also being able to easily look up at your audience without removing your glasses. You can also adjust the handles, tilting them all the way down like opera glasses to keep your readers clean while you get your hair colored or blown out.
The innovative brand has many celebrity fans, including Kaley Cuoco, Kristen Bell, Hoda Kotb, Debbie Allen, Debra Messing, and Tori Spelling. “We didn’t anticipate that so many celebrities and that so many people in general would fall in love with the product,” Hutt tells Yahoo Lifestyle.
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The sisters named the company after their beloved mother, Bunny Koppelman, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2007 — what Fritz calls “a death sentence” because, by the time the cancer is discovered, it’s often too late to treat it. Bunny passed away just eight months after being diagnosed. “She was the most amazing mom,” Fritz tells Yahoo Lifestyle. “She was so loving. She was so caring. She was supersmart.”
Adds Hutt: “She was larger than life, and sometimes those are the people you lose too soon.”
One of the things Bunny was known for was having “a gazillion pairs of reading glasses in every room in her house,” says Hutt. So it’s fitting that her daughters are designing readers for the masses.
Their mom also liked a put-together look, so the frames had to be stylish like her. One of Bunny’s favorite sayings was, “While I have my vanity, I have my sanity.” Says Hutt, “She really had this philosophy that if you feel like you look good, you feel better.”
Naming the company after their mom also comes with a special bonus: They get to hear their mother’s name spoken every day. “We have joy saying her name again,” says Fritz, “and that’s really a gift to us.”
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While Hutt and Fritz wanted to create glasses that are functional and stylish, they also wanted to give back. So 20 percent of all sales profits from the Anna frame in purple — the signature color for pancreatic cancer awareness — is donated to the Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research.
“I think our mom somehow had a hand in this, because we’re not innovators; we’re not creators,” says Hutt. “We’re not inventors. We’re two moms.”
She adds: “They’re a solution-based product — yes — but they’re also incredibly adorable, so I think that [my mom] just would have loved that they look great and that they make your life a little bit easier.”
Like any mother, of course, Bunny would have been thrilled that her two daughters are working as a team. “She would have just really loved that we’re doing this together,” says Fritz.
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