Image via Complex Original
lead
If there's one thing television programming isn't experiencing any shortage of, it's fictional MILFs. Amongst a neverending roster of reality TV housewives messing up the idea of a "hot mom," these actresses reinstate our fantasy image of the kind of mother we'd like to, um, mingle with. So, if you've also been anxious to escape into a world with idyllic women, who just happen to have children, peep our list of The Hottest MILFs on TV right now.
Katey Sagal
15. KATEY SAGAL
Show: Sons of Anarchy
The only woman who can hold her own by a dude as domineering as Ron Perlman's Clay Morrow is Married With Children veteran MILF, Peggy Bundy Katy Sagal. As Gemma Teller Morrow, the matriarch of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Sagal brings her own definition of hot mom: tatted, manipulative and criminally protective.
Connie Britton
14. CONNIE BRITTON
Show: American Horror Story
As Vivien Harmon in American Horror Story, she gets brownie points for being hot and having way more guts than we do. She defends her daughter and her adulterous husband from the many evil spirits in their new house, whereas we’d be running out the door as soon as we met the undead neighbors.
Laura Leighton
13. LAURA LEIGHTON
Show: Pretty Little Liars
On a show that follows the murderous misadventures of four really hot girls, at least one of them had to have their good looks passed on genetically. Enter: Laura Leighton as Ashley Marin, the beautiful, though financially troubled, mother of the foursome’s token blond, Hannah.
Courteney Cox
12. COURTENEY COX
Show: Cougar Town
Despite the self-explanatory title, we’ll clarify her appeal for you anyway. In the show, Cox plays Jules, a single mother who believed she missed out on her youth by being married and raising a child. As a result, she began to prey on younger men; ergo, we want to be her midlife crisis mistake.
Lena Headey
11. LENA HEADEY
Show: Game of Thrones
The Queen of the Seven Kingdoms, Cersei Lannister (one of HBO's gems, Lena Headey), may not be the perfect ruler or the perfect mother, but you can’t deny her hotness; if you can look past her tiny flaw of having a sexual relationship with her twin brother, at least.
Natascha McElhone
10. NATASCHA MCELHONE
Show: Californication
We know Hank Moody’s supposed to be an uncontrollable sex addict, but it’s difficult to understand him letting go of his muse, Natascha McElhone’s Karen van der Beek. Not only is one of the sexiest women of the series a New York native with a taste for classic rock, but Karen was also willing to keep up with Moody’s insatiable sex drive. Most impressively, despite her rebellious tendencies, she isn’t a neglectful mother with a drug problem!
Madeline Stowe
9. MADELINE STOWE
Show: Revenge
The “Queen of the Hamptons," better known as Victoria Grayson, is everything you’d imagine a MILF with social contacts and money to be: stunning, powerful and a bit conniving with a net worth of $4.7 billion.
Julie Bowen
8. JULIE BOWEN
Show: Modern Family
Claire Dunphy is the quintessential soccer MILF, complete with her own minivan. Rather than play up her lonely housewife card, Bowen manages to make the typical "competitive, neurotic mom" persona her sexy selling point.
Juliana Margulies
7. JULIANA MARGULIES
Show: The Good Wife
There’s a couple of reasons why Julianna Margulies won consecutive Emmys for playing Alicia Florick on the show: she looks intimidatingly gorgeous in a power suit, and she's hella convincing as a junior litigator.
Mary Louise Parker
6. MARY LOUISE PARKER
Show: Weeds
Want to wife up a woman who can bake and has great motherly instincts? Well, Showtime's hottest leading lady, Nancy Botwin, is your dream come true. Her pot-dealing side job coupled with her willingness to go to jail for her children meets all of the criteria.
Joy Bryant
5. JOY BRYANT
Show: Parenthood
If you're confused about who's related to who in Parenthood, we suggest you bypass those details and focus on hottest woman on the show's family tree: Joy Bryant. As Jasmine Trussell, she plays a dancer who doesn't tell her son’s father about their kid’s existence until he’s five years old. We're willing to look past the baby daddy issues.
Morena Baccarin
4. MORENA BACCARIN
Show: Homeland
As Jessica, Baccarin plays a rescued POW’s wife and mother of his teenage daughter. However, he was missing in action for eight years, so she's already had time to grieve over the suspected death of her husband. Not to mention, he might be a terrorist now. Jeez. We'd like to save her from the awkward family dinners, at least once in a while.
Eva Longoria
3. EVA LONGORIA
Show: Desperate Housewives
In reality, Longoria’s Gabrielle Solis is the housewife you wouldn’t want. Yeah, she's irresistibly attractive, but her character gets easily bored and is sexually manipulative with every man, including the yard guy. Of course, from a purely aesthetic view, she's the archetypal MILF: hot, young, and the head of the PTA.
January Jones
2. JANUARY JONES
Show: Mad Men
Being one of Manhattan’s top advertisers in the 1960’s meant money, power, swanky dinner parties, and plenty of women. Despite the perks, the lovely January Jones's Betty Draper and her perfectly manicured “housewife” persona would have us on the train home every night.
Sofia Vergara
1. SOFIA VERGARA
Show: Modern Family
Given that the character of Gloria Pritchett was written to be a MILF, there couldn't have been a more perfect woman to fill that role than former bikini model, and real-life hot mom, Sofia Vergara. Nevermind her hilarious mispronunciations, Vergara's sexuality is such a key part of the show that every other character has at least once commented on her attractiveness. She's the hottest mom on TV. You know it. We know it. This isn't up for debate.
