The 12 Most Iconic Moms From TV and Movies
glamour.comalways heart-warming. If the mother isn’t killed off shortly after the opening credits (almost every Disney movie), she might be ruthless (Game of Thrones’ Cersei Lannister), vapid (Gossip Girl’s Lily van der Woodsen), or just plain cold-blooded. (Livia Soprano, you might recall, put out a hit on her own son.)On the more pleasant, less sociopathic end of the spectrum though, you’ll find famous fictional moms who regularly demonstrate the grit and grace—and often the fashion sense—that real-life moms might find themselves aspiring to.
The best among them are still flawed (we’ll pass on Carol Brady’s placid smile and Lorelai Gilmore’s jean shorts) but all 12 of the iconic TV and movie moms below have something worth copycatting.We’re kicking things off on a controversial note, with Randall’s wife out-ranking his mother, Pearson family matriarch Rebecca.
Hear us out: Where The Big Three have a tendency to spiral into histrionics, Beth refuses to play into the drama, and will instead ground them with a pointed one-liner and common sense.
She has Rebecca’s big heart (like her mother-in-law she adopted a child who she loves just as fervently as those she birthed) but she isn’t blind to the family’s flaws—or afraid to call them out.She parented six children—her trio of golden-haired daughters and the three sons her second husband brought to their marriage—in a way that made having step-siblings seem like an adventure.
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