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That’s a question thatsMotheredhopes to answer.
TheTLC showcenters onfour pairs of mothers and daughters.
Cher and her mother, Dawn, are 32 years apart but act like twins.
Sunhe and her daughter Angelica are 20 years apart, and often share a bed.
Why do they even want to tell the world they’re sMothered?
How does someone go about getting their own lovingmother-daughter relationshipfeatured onsMothered?
The show wants mothers and daughters who “take the traditional mom and daughter relationship to new heights.”
“Besides careers and all of that, my biggest accomplishment is my daughter.”
“So I would dismiss them.”
Her daughter has had similar experiences with men saying they don’t want to date her mom, too.
“I’m like, ‘You’re not, but I’m still in constant contact with her.
So you’re free to get lost.'”
They aren’t the only mother-daughter pair to put their bond before their relationships.
“We always have an agreement,” Sunhe said in her ownNew York Postinterview.
Why does Cher look so familiar?
Viewers ofsMotheredmay find themselves wondering why one of the cast members looks so familiar.
It turns out thatsMotheredisn’t Cher’s first foray into reality television.
In her teenage years, Cher was featured on MTV’sMy Super Sweet 16in the show’s fourth season.
Even back then, Cher and her mom were pretty tight.
“She’s… like my best friend,” Cher said on the show.
“We do pretty much everything together.”
“You are my little princess,” said Dawn.
Her stint on the showinspired her to study nursingat the University of Florida.
In the clip, Carly also tells her mom that some of her antics are “crazy.”
Cher and Dawn not-so-jokingly refer to themselves as twins, and Cher is the spitting image of her mom.
To add to the twinning effect, they even dress alike.
They clearly have similar taste in clothing, and even swap outfits.
“Whenever I go to Florida, I can raid her closet,” Cher told theNew York Post.
“When she comes to New York, she doesn’t need to pack much she raids mine.”
They claim that they don’t really need anybody else in their lives.
“We don’t have many friends,” Mariah toldHollywood Life.
“This is our unit.”
Sandra said that they prefer to keep their “home space” exclusive to them.
“We don’t really miss anybody.”
“We just get each other so we just stick with each other,” said Mariah.
The Florida native moved to New York for Jared when he began a plastic surgery residency.
She also kept a major secret from her mom: herpregnancy.
Cher told her husband she was expecting before she told her mom.
“I had to keep a big secret from my mom for a while,” she toldTooFab.
“That’s between my husband and I, for sure.
My mom and I are super close, but this was my husband’s baby.”
But Sunhe couldn’t bear to let her daughter leave the nest.
She then drove six hours every two weeks to see Angelica.
“I have always uprooted for Angelica,” she told theNew York Post.
Was the portrayal of this scene in sMothered racially insensitive?
“We don’t just jump in the bath all dirty, filthy,” Angelica toldTooFab.
“We take a shower somewhere else [and] clean off.”
By the time they take a bath, they are already clean.
Others are deliberately nurtured.
“We make each other laugh,” Mariah toldHollywood Life.
“I’d rather talk to her than anybody else in the world.
With any job issues, with any legal matter anything.
She raised her best friend.
She raised me to be this way so that’s all I’ll ever know.
I’m happy about it, but that’s all it is.”
The pair talk about even the most intimate issues.
Mariah revealed that she even called her mom after her first sexual encounter.
Sandra said that the two have been close since Mariah “was in the womb.”
What do the moms and daughters of sMothered really think of the other stars of the show?
The show focuses on each mother and daughter pair separately as they go about their daily lives.
The four pairs aren’t brought together for filming, so they don’t actually spend time together.
How do the other moms and daughters feel about the other stars of the show?
“Everyone has their unique bond,” Dawn diplomatically toldPeople.
“Every bond is different.
If it works for them, great.
It’s not our bond. "
Angelica and Sunhe also refused to pass judgement on the other duos.
“That is them.”
Kathy told theChicago Tribune.
“I don’t like the perception that there’s something wrong with this.
There’s nothing wrong with this.
There’s nothing weird about this.
This is how we live.
I would hope people would get from [the show] that it’s not that crazy.
It’s maybe how it should be.”
Angelica told theNew York Postthat her relationship with her mom is simply misunderstood.
“But my mom and I are close.
There’s nothing wrong with it.”
Want a sMothered relationship yourself?
Cher and Dawn wrote a book for that
ThesMotheredlifestyle isn’t for everyone, but to each their own.
Do grandchildren change things for sMothered mother-daughter duos?
For Kathy and Cristina, it’s no problem.
“Cristina lives five houses away from me,” said Kathyin the show’s sneak peak.
For Cher and Dawn, however, things are a little bit different.
“I am concerned where I’m gonna fit in.”
