PLAYED BY: Cher
MARITAL STATUS/OCCUPATION: Single/biker
MATERNAL QUALITY WE ADMIRE: Humor. A depressed and drug-addicted motorcycle mama is hardly anyone’s idea of an ideal mother, and Rusty would be the first to admit that she’s less than ideal. But she’s funny, tough-minded, and has a threshold for b.s. — traits that serve her well in raising a son, Rusty, born with a severely disfigured skull. She encourages him to pursue his interests, fights for his right to attend a regular junior high school, and nurses him through heartache — things good mothers do.
TO A DOCTOR ADVISING HER OF HER SON’S CONDITION: “First you told me he was gonna be retarded, then you told me he was gonna be blind and deaf. If I’d dug his grave every time one of you geniuses told me he was gonna die, I’d be eating f—-‘– chop suey in China by now!”
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