# Most Beautiful TV Mom **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 18, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beautiful-tv-mom/816337 "2018-06-18T20:23:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beautiful-tv-mom/816337/1 "2018-06-18T20:23:43Z")
We were talking about the “hot wife/goofy dad” stereotype in another CS thread. It got me wondering who do you think was the most attractive TV mom? My vote is Natalie Lane from the “Patty Duke Show”, played by Jean Byron. ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beautiful-tv-mom/816337/2 "2018-06-18T20:34:16Z")
Sofia Vergara on Modern Family ---
**Author:** ![Rough\_Draft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@Rough\_Draft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rough_Draft)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beautiful-tv-mom/816337/3 "2018-06-18T20:48:20Z")
Donna Reed! ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beautiful-tv-mom/816337/4 "2018-06-18T20:49:07Z")
Laura Petrie. We’re done here. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beautiful-tv-mom/816337/5 "2018-06-18T20:54:41Z")
I haven’t given it a lot of thought, but the first name to spring to my mind was Elyse Keaton (from _Family Ties_). ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beautiful-tv-mom/816337/6 "2018-06-18T20:59:08Z")
Morticia Addams. ---
**Author:** ![spifflog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@spifflog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spifflog)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beautiful-tv-mom/816337/7 "2018-06-18T21:18:07Z")
Eva Longoria on Desperate Housewives or January Jones on Mad Men. I’ve never seen a mom like either one in real life! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beautiful-tv-mom/816337/8 "2018-06-18T21:20:51Z")
Anna “Christy” Faris. Hubba-hubba! :o ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beautiful-tv-mom/816337/9 "2018-06-18T21:28:06Z")
Do cartoons count? Queen Miranda on Sofia the First. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beautiful-tv-mom/816337/10 "2018-06-18T21:30:57Z")
Samantha Stevens ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beautiful-tv-mom/816337/11 "2018-06-18T21:34:11Z")
> [@SykoSkotty](#): > > Sofia Vergara on Modern Family I don’t watch the show, but agree! Of course, there are a few on the tele-novelas on the Spanish channels that would win for me, but don’t know their names. ---
**Author:** ![from\_a\_to\_z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5fc32e/32.png) [@from\_a\_to\_z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/from_a_to_z)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beautiful-tv-mom/816337/12 "2018-06-18T21:34:18Z")
Charming. That still leaves me Wilma Flintstone and Rachel Green. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beautiful-tv-mom/816337/13 "2018-06-18T21:36:00Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Morticia Addams. Yeah. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beautiful-tv-mom/816337/14 "2018-06-18T21:55:18Z")
> [@installLSC](#): > > My vote is Natalie Lane from the “Patty Duke Show”, played by Jean Byron. I was scrolling down that page and thought “she carries an awful lot of candelabras, doesn’t she?” ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beautiful-tv-mom/816337/15 "2018-06-18T22:02:08Z")
I second (third?) Sofia Vergara. One of the most beautiful women on TV, period. I always had a thing for Courtney Thorne-Smith of _According to Jim_. Not sure if her character was a mom, as I seldom watched that dumb show, but she was hot. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beautiful-tv-mom/816337/16 "2018-06-18T22:13:47Z")
> [@SykoSkotty](#): > > Sofia Vergara on Modern Family I see I’m going to be in the minority here, but Ms. Vergara does nothing for me. I’m sure she’s a nice person and all that. Not my type. Her co-star, Julie Bowen, is much more to my taste. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beautiful-tv-mom/816337/17 "2018-06-18T22:15:57Z")
Keri Russell as Elizabeth Jennings on _The Americans_. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beautiful-tv-mom/816337/18 "2018-06-18T22:19:06Z")
1)Laura Petrie 2) Morticia Addams. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beautiful-tv-mom/816337/19 "2018-06-18T22:25:45Z")
All of the ‘Desperate Housewives’ had their moments, beautiful hair, clothes, and slim figures. Patricia Heaton on ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ had her occasional moments, when she actually did seem to be ‘too pretty’ for Raymond, as his mother once said… January Jones (‘Mad Men’) was a lousy mother but channeled all her unhappiness into staying ‘perfect’ as a trophy wife was supposed to be. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beautiful-tv-mom/816337/20 "2018-06-18T22:58:41Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > I second (third?) > I always had a thing for Courtney Thorne-Smith of _According to Jim_. Not sure if her character was a mom, as I seldom watched that dumb show, but she was hot. Yup! She had a habit of playing waaaaay-to-hot for the schlub she was with on TV. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beautiful-tv-mom/816337.md?page=2)