You know Téa Leoni best as Elizabeth McCord on Madame Secretary or more recently as Sofia Caccimelo on Only Murders in the Building, and she’s certainly had an extensive career. Now she spends the time looking back on the reason for that in her love letter, “The Best Kind of Superhero,” in What I Learned From Mom, which we’re fortunate to share an exclusive excerpt from.
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“My mother is a basket of beautiful contradictions. She was a piano prodigy, and by age fourteen she was playing some of the best Chopin anywhere in Amarillo. She was a straight-A student. At the same time, she learned how to drive a car at thirteen and was secretly drag racing the next year. She will set a table that looks like the most magnificent thing in the world, but she’s also a great partyer and not afraid to “trash the table” and be the first one to do it. I’ve got pictures of her with her bare legs on top of that table, white wine in one hand and red in the other. I mean, my mother is surprising. You just can’t put her in a box and label her. If I’ve ever been surprising, it’s only because I learned it from her.
Mind you, Mom will never ask for or expect an accolade. She never wants to stand up and take credit for something or get an award. I swear it’s probably why she never plays the lottery because, God forbid, she’d be the winner and become the focus of something! And she never complains, ever. Even when she was going through some life stages that women go through, my mother never talked or complained about a hot flash. She has knees that are pretty much bone on bone at this point, and she walks at least ten miles a day. I’ve maybe heard her talk about an ailment twice, like when she broke both of her arms a few years ago and was in two enormous casts. She was up on Cape Cod with these big cast claws on her arms—we called her “Lucy the Lobster.” Yet, she was still walking ten miles a day with these huge things on, and she never complained.”
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“Sometimes I think other people teach their kids to respect the people who they respect. My mother makes it clear that you should have respect for everybody. She treats everybody like they are valuable. Worthy. And possibly better than she is. I don’t mean that she puts herself down, I mean that she looks at everybody as a “possible.” I realize that she gave me that gift.”
What I Learned From Mom is packed with love letters like this from many actors, celebrities, and personalities we look up to today, including Henry Louis Gates Jr., Chelsea Clinton, Steve Guttenberg, and Cindy Crawford. With 27 essays in total, there’s no shortage of lessons to take from, and all of us can learn from other moms out there.
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You can read the full essay and all 26 others in What I Learned From Mom from March 31, 2026. Fair warning, the majority of these essays are going to make you cry with happiness and warmth!
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