When it comes to the familiar beauty and comforting charm of TV moms, Meredith Baxte r was one of the best as the MILF-tastic Elyse Keaton on Family Ties . But it was her thrillingly unexpected nude debut in the 1994 movie My Breast that cemented her place on as #29 in Mr. Skin’s Top 100 Nude Scenes of All Time . The NBC TV movie had Meredith showcase the title object on network TV, while a doctor gave it a thorough and unpixilated examination. See the pics after the jump!
With fall TV season right around the corner, our minds naturally drift to the babes of the boob tube. And what could be more alluring than the familiar beauty and comforting charm of onscreen moms? Fortunately, MILFs like Elizabeth Montgomery , Meredith Baxter , and Susan Clark have managed to break out of their sitcom roles and show some skin. So touch your dial all you want to our Top 10 TV Moms Nude:
Having come out as a lesbian in December 2009 on Today, Meredith Baxter returned to the NBC program to make another announcement Tuesday: She was a victim of domestic violence. Baxter, best known as the mom on Family Ties, alleged her ex-husband and Bridget Loves Birney co-star, David Birney, abused her in their marriage. When asked why she stayed with Birney, who denies the allegations, Baxter replied, “I didn’t know I had a choice. I didn’t know I could go.” She adds that Birney purposefully set his sights on her . “He’s not going to pick someone who’s on top of themselves and who’s confident and aggressive,” she said. “For him to be who he needed to be, it needed to be someone who was mousy and quiet and retiring, and that’s what I was.” The 63-year-old Baxter said she was able to keep this and other personal problems a secret from the stars she worked with over the years. “You learn to compartmentalize. As soon as I got to the studio, my home life was not happening,” she recalled. “I never talked about it.” “No one knew anything.” Baxter, who has three kids with Birney, said she eventually “had to change my thinking” because “I didn’t want to be a victim” anymore.
Having come out as a lesbian in December 2009 on Today, Meredith Baxter returned to the NBC program to make another announcement Tuesday: She was a victim of domestic violence. Baxter, best known as the mom on Family Ties, alleged her ex-husband and Bridget Loves Birney co-star, David Birney, abused her in their marriage. When asked why she stayed with Birney, who denies the allegations, Baxter replied, “I didn’t know I had a choice. I didn’t know I could go.” She adds that Birney purposefully set his sights on her . “He’s not going to pick someone who’s on top of themselves and who’s confident and aggressive,” she said. “For him to be who he needed to be, it needed to be someone who was mousy and quiet and retiring, and that’s what I was.” The 63-year-old Baxter said she was able to keep this and other personal problems a secret from the stars she worked with over the years. “You learn to compartmentalize. As soon as I got to the studio, my home life was not happening,” she recalled. “I never talked about it.” “No one knew anything.” Baxter, who has three kids with Birney, said she eventually “had to change my thinking” because “I didn’t want to be a victim” anymore.
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Project Runway is truly the Giving Tree for the 21st Century. Since it debuted in 2004, it has bestowed upon the world many gifts, both good (Tim Gunn! Enchanted German woodcarving Heidi Klum!) and bad (The Models aftershow! Michael Kors’ nightmare-inducing unearthly hue!). It helped cement Bravo as a viable network and got Lifetime to stop airing so many movies about breast cancer starring Meredith Baxter Birney. And now, there’s a new Runway spinoff on the horizon.
Meredith Baxter, who played Elyse Keaton on the hit 1980s series Family Ties, came out of the closet this morning as a lesbian, saying it happened “later in life.” Baxter, who’s been married to men three times and has five children, revealed on the Today show that she has been in a relationship with a woman for four years.
