Hot Mom

"A universal rule of anime: Not all hot chicks are mothers, but all mothers are hot chicks."

—Unskippable, discussing Grandia III.

Many series will have a mother who is meant to be seen as attractive. This may be referenced in the show by another character commenting on her "down-to-earth charm" or "earthy good looks". She is almost inevitably an Absurdly Youthful Mother and Hilarity Ensues as she is mistaken for her children's cute big sister.

This trope has popped up more and more in American television, thanks largely to the Ugly Guy, Hot Wife craze that took off somewhere in the mid-90s. A housewife with two or three kids tends to end up looking like a 30-something version of a Maxim covergirl.

For completion's sake, the generally accepted term in Great Britain for this phenomena is Yummy Mummy.

For the male equivalent of this trope, see Hot Dad. Compare Action Mom. Stacy's Mom is normally a result of this.

No real life examples, please; We'd never reach an agreement!

Examples of Hot Mom are listed on these subpages:

Examples of Hot Mom include:

Music

Fountains Of Wayne brings us the immortal song Stacy's Mom(she's got it goin' on) that names the above mentioned trope.
Then there's this song and video. You'll never see parent-teacher conferences in quite the same way again.
The narrator's wife in the classic comedy song "I'm My Own Grandpa," describes as "purdy as could be" despite being old enough to already have an adult daughter from a previous marriage. She apparently goes for younger men, and her daughter for older men, and these two facts taken together lead to, well...

Newspaper Comics

Blondie, of course.
Nancy (Mother to Brad and Luann).
Yunny from Yenny.
Alice Mitchell, mother of the American Dennis the Menace.
Lois Flagston, of Hi and Lois, has 4 kids and a job and still looks pretty good.

Visual Novels

Riko and Michiko in A Profile, though you only see the latter twice.
Chizuru in Kara no Shoujo. Though Toko is in fact adopted.
Key Visual Arts seems to like this trope, using it in Kanon (Minase Akiko), AIR (Kamio Haruko), and Clannad (Furukawa Sanae and her daughter Nagisa later on in the story, effectively making Sanae a rare NON-Tenchi Hot Grandma), among others.
In the licensed PSP Visual Novel, it is possible to get Taiga as a soon-to-be-MILF. Really.^[dead link]
- Which of course makes Yasuko a Hot Grandma.
Emi's mother Meiko in Katawa Shoujo, as Hisao points out:

Meiko: I'm sorry. Forgive an old woman her amusements.
Hisao: Old woman? She sure doesn't look that old to me. Clearly Emi gets her youthful features from her mother.

Web Original

Hera, Demeter, Mnemosyne, Calliope, and especially Aphrodite in Thalia's Musings.
The title character from Spots the Space Marine is a 32-year reservist who is called up for active duty.
Lady Astarte of the Whateley Universe, who is now apparently a hot grandmother, being over seventy and looking like a thirty-ish movie starlet. Similarly, Phoenixfire is said to be pretty much a copy of her mom who is still superheroing as Magma (they have the same powers too).