Young & Restless’ Christel Khalil Reflects On a ‘Force to Be Reckoned With in Your Heart’
Sunday, May 8th, 2022
The Daytime Emmy winner also took a moment to wonder “how this little human can drive you crazy like no other.” Pretty sure that was a rhetorical question, though!
As Mother’s Day rolled around this weekend, Young & Restless leading lady Christel Khalil grew reflective. “Mothers have a special role in a person’s life,” she noted on Instagram. And who could argue with that?
“Whether you have a bond with your mom, or maybe you have a tumultuous relationship with her… or maybe she’s passed and you miss her in a way words can’t express,” the actress continued, “there’s no doubt, your mother is a force to be reckoned with in your heart.”
Accompanying the post from Lily’s portrayer were a couple of sweet photos of herself with son Michael, whose 12th birthday Soaps.com recently celebrated with a look back at his life in pictures. (Click here to step back in time.)
In closing, Khalil wished a “happy Mother’s Day to the moms who know what it’s like to have your heart walk around outside your body… and also who wonder how this little human can drive you crazy like no other.”
Whether you’ve been there, done that, or just enjoyed it via our daytime dramas, you can savor the holiday via the below photo gallery of soaps’ best and worst moms.
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1/28
<p>It was bad enough that the erstwhile Lorraine forced her daughter into the Dawn of Day cult — <em>and</em> into its leader Shiloh’s bed. But to further cement her spot on our worst list, she turned out to not even be Willow’s real mother!</p>
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2/28
<p>“<em>You</em>? A model child?” Despite the way that Thomas turned out, his and Steffy’s mom did alright, if not <em>all</em> right, by the kids.</p>
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3/28
<p>The scheme queen probably did Kyle a favor by letting him grow up believing that she’d been murdered. But try telling that to her son, whose emotional wounds she selfishly reopened by upending his life with her “resurrection.”</p>
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4/28
<p>Not only did Dante Falconeri’s sensible mom keep him safely away from his made-man father for decades, she shielded son Leo with Julian Jerome from <em>his</em> dad’s criminal activities as best she could, too.</p>
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5/28
<p>Far be it from us to point fingers, but if you, on the other hand, wanted to blame Stefano’s daughter for the fact that <em>her</em> daughter Rachel has turned out to be such an abominable bad seed, we <em>might</em> quietly cheer you on from the sidelines.</p>
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6/28
<p>Her poker face left something to be desired, son Mike might’ve admitted. But, strong of will and stout of heart, the matriarch of Springfield’s troubled Bauer clan was by and large such a ray of hope that she could well have been the inspiration for the soap’s title.</p>
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7/28
<p>Oh, we know, we know — she and her kids kissed and made up in the end. But there wouldn’t have been so many hard feelings to soften if Dina hadn’t been a more glamorous than nurturing mom to begin with.</p>
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8/28
<p>OK, so maybe Port Charles’ Wonder Woman <em>did</em> let Robin begin her life in a bit of a fog as to her origin story. Anna <em>more</em> than made up for it with the inspirational role model she became for her daughter and granddaughter.</p>
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9/28
<p>Karma came back to bite this small-town girl after she made it big. Kim, the impetuous daughter she’d tried to leave in Podunk, tracked her down to challenge the notion that her domineering mother ever knew best.</p>
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10/28
<p>It’s a good thing Sami and Eric’s mom is a shrink; otherwise, she might have long ago gone mad trying to curb her daughter’s tendency to act on impulse and her son’s “here today, gone tomorrow” approach to his priest’s collar.</p>
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11/28
<p>Since this is daytime we’re talking about, we could give her a pass for shtupping one of her daughters’ husbands. But two? <em>And</em> yet <em>another</em> daughter’s boyfriend? No. Sorry. No Mother’s Day card for you, Brooke.</p>
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12/28
<p>Sure, she once slept with a horseman who’d go on to marry daughter Victoria. Nikki is still the Newman likeliest to try to keep anyone from stampeding at the ranch. And she’s the more fun parent with whom to judge party guests like this chick who is <em>clearly</em> just there for the open bar.</p>
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13/28
<p>Mirror, mirror in her hand, who would cut you where you stand? David and Leo’s mad, mad mama, that’s who. There are freaking caves that aren’t as batty as the homicidal maniac who spawned the brothers.</p>
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14/28
<p>As sweet as her legendary donuts, the Horton family’s indefatigably patient matriarch wasn’t just a model mom to her own kids but a beloved surrogate one to countless lost souls in Salem.</p>
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15/28
<p>There’s no good reason why the madwoman’s children want less than zero contact with her. There are, in fact, a <em>bazillion</em> good reasons! Finn’s? She, uh… she shot him “dead” while attempting to murder his wife, Steffy.</p>
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16/28
<p>The single mom worked a crap job for years to support her kids. She always had advice at the ready, whether or not it was wanted. And with regard to daughter Jill (Brenda Dickson here)… Well, points for trying, Liz.</p>
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17/28
<p>No matter how many of her children got kidnapped, shot at or killed, Sonny’s moll refused to get unmarried from the Mob. Until, that is, the made man developed both a case of amnesia and the hots for another woman.</p>
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18/28
<p>All the moms on our “best” list would tell you that they’d do anything for their kids. But Ciara and Shawn’s mother is unique in that not only <em>would</em> the butt-kicking detective do anything for them, she actually <em>could</em>, too.</p>
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19/28
<p>Son Ted doesn’t appear to be holding it against Mom here, but she lost a lotta points in the parenting pageant after killing his half brother and abandoning him and sisters Eden and Kelly for the better part of their lives.</p>
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20/28
<p>When Mary, Frank, Pat and Siobhan were hurting, there was no more sympathetic ear to bend than their soulful mom’s. Unless they were the cause of their own pain, in which case, whoa, could Maeve’s love be tough!</p>
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21/28
<p>Helicopter parents had nothin’ and Lance and Lucas’ mom, whose threats were rarely as veiled as her scarred face and who wound up plunging to her death in hopes of erasing from her boys’ life Lorie, aka the strumpet no mother wanted in the room, much less in-<em>law</em>.</p>
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22/28
<p>The doctor has raised in Trina an admirable young woman who knows that honesty is always the best policy. Uless there’s a question mark hanging over your daughter’s paternity. Then, erm, let’s call it a gray area.</p>
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23/28
<p>Though the brassy beautician was often played for laughs, there was nothing funny about the screwed-up individuals that her “mothering” made of Natalie and Rex — and it turned out, they weren’t even Roxy’s kids!</p>
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24/28
<p>The real testament to what a terrific mom Joe’s better half was isn’t the fine man that she raised Dr. Nice Guy Jake to be but the decent guy into which she ultimately helped turn his adopted brother, Tad the Cad.</p>
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25/28
<p>“Diane is unforgivable! She let her child believe she was dead!” Summer and Daniel’s mom screamed for the better part of a year… before turning around and letting her children believe that she had died. D’oh!</p>
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26/28
<p>As if it wasn’t bad enough that Mommie Dearest played favorites with her kids — fawning over the vile Stavros — she tried to murder his brother Stefan and ordered the execution of their sister Irena!</p>
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27/28
<p>Cameron, Jake and Aiden’s mom would be the last person to say that she’s perfect. And she <em>is</em> as flawed as any of us. Yet she instills in her boys a can-do spirit that we only wish rubbed off more on us.</p>
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