SheWired is celebrating Mother’s Day with a salute to the fairest matriarchs of TV land. From sitcom darlings of The Cosby Show to high drama Mamas of Weeds, L Word, and The Good Wife, all these mothers, good and bad, have one thing in common: they’re totally hot.
Check out the most crush-worthy TV moms of all time, (in no particular order) according to SheWired’s expert team of lesbian fangirls.
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Mary Louise Parker, Nancy Botwin on Weeds
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Phylicia Rashad, Claire Huxtable on The Cosby Show
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Meredith Baxter, Elyse Keaton on Family Ties
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Shirley Jones, Shirley Renfrew Partridge on The Partridge Family
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Connie Britton, Tami Taylor on Friday Night Lights
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Elizabeth Montgomery, Samantha Stephens on Bewitched
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Sofia Vergara, Gloria Delgado-Pritchett on Modern Family
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Julie Benz, Stephanie Powell on No Ordinary Family
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Eva Longoria, Gabrielle Solis on Desperate Housewives
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Lauren Graham, Lorelai Gilmore on Gilmore Girls
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Judith Light, Angela Bower on Who’s The Boss
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Portia de Ross, Lindsay Bluth Funke on Arrested Development
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Holly Marie Combs, Ella Montgomery on Pretty Little Liars
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Molly Ringwald, Anne Juergens on The Secret Life of The American Teenager
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Maeve Quinlan, Paula Carlin on South of Nowhere
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Bess Armstrong, Patty Chase on My So Called Life
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Sara Ramirez and Jessica Capshaw, Dr.’s Callie Torres and Arizona Robbins on Grey’s Anatomy
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Idina Menzel, Rachel Berry’s Bio-mom, Shelby Corcoran on Glee
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Betty Rubble, The Flinstones
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Jennifer Saunders, Edina Monsoon on Absolutely Fabulous
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Jennifer Beals, Laurel Holloman, Pam Grier, Rachel Shelley, Cybill Shepherd, and Holland Taylor, on The L Word
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Diahann Carroll, Julia Baker on Julia
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Julianna Marguiles, Alicia Florrick on The Good Wife
Katey Sagal, Peggy Bundy on Married With Children
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Rachel Griffiths, Sarah Walker on Brothers and Sisters
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