Moms who like Twilight…are they icky?

Moms who like Twilight…are they icky? Jill Etesse was hooked on the "Twilight" books the second she cracked the series opener. She ripped through the saga on paper and rented movie No. 1.

Then the madness began.

"I joined the lines of teens for 'New Moon,'" said the 38-year-old mom of two. "My husband is deathly embarrassed. Half my friends think I'm crazy."

Etesse, from Leesburg, Va., won't let her 8-year-old daughter anywhere near Team Edward OR Team Jacob, but did she take herself to "Eclipse" this summer? "Oh yeah."

Is there something, um, icky about moms who like "Twilight"? Heck no, said 54-year-old Toni Downey of Limerick, Pa.

Into the light they've come, publicly declaring their sometimes puzzled joy, juggling movie schedules with diaper changes, kid lunches and soccer practices. They're definitely looking forward with younger fans to the last two "Twilight" movies starting next year, and they're scooping up all sorts of reads intended for the young.

In June, 30-year-old mom Christina Fiedler was undaunted by a tent city of young people on her way in to a special screening of "Eclipse" at a Los Angeles theater. She's not all that much older than 24-year-old Robert Pattinson and his mid-20s Cullen kin, played by Kellan Lutz and Jackson Rathbone, but her mom status makes her feel light years their senior, especially since they're all supposed to be teens on screen.

"What an odd experience to be an adult woman in a theater full of screaming tweens," said Fiedler, who has a 2-year-old son and has blogged about her "Twilight" habit at Mom Logic. "I didn't go with my Team Jacob or Team Edward shirt like some of the women my age did. There were quite a few of them. I didn't talk back to the screen like they did."

With an upswing in grown-ups (yes, women) embracing books intended for teens, are moms thinking younger, or at least enjoying the freedom to express their still-young sides in ways June Cleaver was denied?

Fiedler's Team Edward, though considers him bad boyfriend material for his younger fans. He encourages Bella to keep secrets from her family and ditch her old friends. He needs anger management counseling and the two are never happy. Besides, his family finds her "irresistible." You be the judge.

"It's escaping from a hectic daily life and into their frivolous ones," she said. "It's this generation's Romeo and Juliet."

 

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- Posted on August 27, 2010
Submitted by minelson on Monday, 01/30/2012 - 14:17.

I don't think moms who like Twilight are icky because my mom and I watch the movies all the time we really want to see Breaking Dawn Part 2 because we already watched part 1 in theaters.

Submitted by 123madelines on Tuesday, 01/24/2012 - 14:14.

I really don't think it matters that moms read the same books their teenage daughters do. My mom has already watched all of the movies that have come out and she has read the book, I haven't even seen one movie. That might be because I am ten and just finished reading the books.

Submitted by Gamesofhunger305 on Thursday, 01/19/2012 - 15:03.

I have to admit, My moms a reeeeeeeeeeaaaaallllll twihard. She read the first book in 2010. And got hooked. I liked it at first. But... No.nonononono. Never again. I was actually FORCED to see breaking dawn. Not fair, Mom.

Submitted by warnemad1 on Wednesday, 01/18/2012 - 17:20.

I would NOT let my mom like Any won under her age.It is pure discusting that moms like twilight. Its OK for teens to like twilight. For a fact I love twilight and i am team Jacob. If you haven't notched he is so CUTE!!!!!!!!

Submitted by logan27762 on Thursday, 01/12/2012 - 13:47.

I dont get why ANY girl would like Twilight.
I mean all it is, is a vampire, a wolf that has fleas, and a girl that cant make her mind up!!!! What`s so special about that?!?

Submitted by lakercassie14 on Tuesday, 01/10/2012 - 16:21.

I think it's slightly weird that a woman would love the same actor as her teenage daughter. My mom likes the book series and I'm okay with it, but if she loved Taylor Lautner or Robert Patterson, I'd probably be freaked out. But I don't mean that it's insane for an adult to like Twilight, I mean it is insane that people make such a big deal about it. I know several moms who read some of the same books their teenage daughters read. It's not like it's a crime. Adults have every right to like the series, and any other young adult book they wish to read.It's fine to like it, because there's nothing wrong with reading the books and watching the movies and everything. It's just when they start wearing the shirts and buying cardboard cutouts of either Edward or Jacob to put in their house that it gets creepy.

Submitted by TheBossTaylor on Tuesday, 01/10/2012 - 14:43.

Man, I'm not sure how I feel about moms liking Twilight characters. If it was my mom, I'd be awkward with her checking out such a younger man. You know?

Submitted by timothy35259 on Monday, 01/09/2012 - 14:00.

OK,my mom is in love with Twlight of girls and Lady's,and i think it is mostly of Robert Patterson`s "romantic words" he says to Bella in all the movies.I think the movie would be better if it was not just a chick flick and a movie about wolfs,and vampires fighting each other.'which is what it really is supposed to be.I moms that like twlight obviously are not icky because it looks like to me they have dates to take them to the movies which means that there boyfriends obviously like them likeing Twlight.So Toni is wrong about moms are not icky.

Submitted by pinkloverforlife0525 on Wednesday, 01/04/2012 - 18:21.

It's okay for moms to like Twiight,just because most people of the younger age watches and reads the books, it does not mean older people can't watch it. There is nothing wrong with that at all!

Submitted by JessamyS_5 on Thursday, 12/15/2011 - 16:17.

Most of my friends moms have read the Twilight books and seen all the movies, even before me and my friends! I don't think it's weird. I think it's cool. If the moms want to watch Twilight, nobodys stopping them.