Perhaps best known as the pot-shilling mom on the hit show Weeds, in real life Mary-Louise Parker is a single mom to two adorable kids who are becoming increasingly curious about her controversial TV character. The 45-year-old actress recently chatted to Vanity Fair about Weeds, fame and the challenges of single motherhood.
On her Weeds fame: "I think it’s a little dangerous if you overvalue that kind of attention. My son has recently started to notice it. One time a lady came running up to me in the street and said, 'I love you! I love you so much!' And my son asked me later, 'Why did that stranger say she loved you?' That’s a very hard question to answer.... They know that my character on Weeds does something with drugs. So now I get questions like, 'What are drugs?' And I’m like, 'Well, it’s something that … people do.' It’s so hard! Sometimes it’s just easier to say, 'She does things that are really, really naughty.' Kids love to hear that. 'Oooh, like what?'"
