Ms. Fisher calls Ms. Taylor her ex-stepmother.
"IS that my ex-stepmother?" Christophe von Hohenberg, a photographer, asked.
"I said, 'I'll try something for you guys, but I couldn't write something for my ex-stepmother and not my mother,' " she said.
In "Jazzy and the Pussycats", the Simpsons attend Homer's ex-wife and former stepmother's funeral after Amber dies from a drug overdose.
When the relationship ended, Ms. Wells was devastated, but her ex-boyfriend's stepmother, Jane (the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard), consoled her with quotations from Byron, while his father, Kingsley Amis, poured her whiskey and patted her hand.
"It is there to be shared with anyone in their lives," she said, relating the guest list of the party they held on their first Christmas in the house: her mother and stepfather, her father and stepmother, her ex-husband and his family, and many happy children.
To put this into perspective, my dad's second wife had a previous marriage with no children, and according to the GFR approach, I would be cousins with the entire family -- all the ancestors and descendants -- of my stepmother's ex.
Decaying castle houses impoverished family consisting of 17-year-old diarist Cassandra, her ravishing 21-year-old sister Rose, small brother, ex-artist's model stepmother (called Topaz, and given to wandering around naked in the rain), father who is a blocked writer, and resident factotum - a youthful male hunk.
Woodall has one daughter, Lyla (born 28 October 2003), and is stepmother to her ex-husband's son, Zak.
One nuclear explosion later, the two decided to change their ways and have now written a book, "Stepwives: 10 Steps to Help Ex-Wives and Stepmothers End the Struggle and Put the Kids First" (Fireside), along with Dr. Marjorie Vego Krausz, a marriage and family therapist.
The highlights include sex, drugs, alcohol, basketball, rehab and psychotherapy with his stepmother's lesbian ex-lover.
