Anne Carlson

Jayme Carlson (daughter)

Anne Carlson is the deuteragonist in Workin' Moms. She is portrayed by Dani Kind.

## Descriptio

Anne is the wife of Lionel Carlson and the mother of Alice and Jayme Carlson. She was married previously to Brad Heshington. Her best and closest friend is Kate Foster whom she met at university. Anne holds a MD and PhD as well as being a qualified Psychiatrist. In season 1 she practices medicine from her home and increases her hours due to financial reasons. However, in season 2 she moves her medical practice to a Toronto office block.

### Season 3

In season 3 she has stopped privately practising medicine and is instead a Psychiatrist working for a local university. By season 4 she has quit this job and solely focuses on writing her parenting book, 'Punishment: The Ultimate Reward'. At the end of season 5, she notes that she wants to open her psychiatric practice again.

### Season 5

The Carlsons move to Cochrane, Alberta. Anne is very unhappy in Cochrane. She has trouble finding people she relates to, and trouble making friends. She visits a mental health professional who prescribes her some pills to help her relax. Anne initially gets tired and foggy from the medication. She goes to an interviews intoxicated, turns a bunch of white clothes pink, and falls asleep during a therapy session with a client.

She meets two other women in Cochrane and goes out for drinks with them. As time goes by, the two women reveal their true goal - to get Anne to write them prescriptions. Anne explains to the women that she cannot simply prescribe drugs without consulting them as patients. The women consequently shun Anne and look for ways to make her life difficult.

Anne eventually gets a call from Kate regarding her book being published. Kate is working with Sloane at Wynston publishing and pitches Anne's book idea. Sloane is receptive, and Anne flies back to Toronto to meet with Sloane. Sloane agrees to buy Anne's book, and Anne stays in Toronto to begin a press tour in order to promote her book.

Anne begins her press tour and hits some bumps along the way. She meets former friend from her mom group, Alicia, to appear on Alicia's podcast. The two get into a heated argument during the podcasts and Alicia storms out. Later, Anne goes on a talkshow to promote her book, and finds Alicia is a fellow guest on the talkshow. The talkshow plays a clip of Alicia's podcast recording of Anne, and everyone hears Anne cuss at Alicia. Alicia antagonizes Anne on the talkshow. Alicia goes as far as revealing Anne's abortion to the entire audience during a live talkshow. Once the camera stops rolling, Anne calmly gets up from her seat, walks up to Alicia, and bitch-slaps her across the face. Sloane later arrives to the talkshow set and admits to Anne that she was the one who leaked the podcast recording to the talkshow. She says that she did it because she knows it will drum up some publicity for the book.

The press tour continues with more difficulties as a video of Lionel punching a kid in Cochrane spreads around the internet. Most of Anne's subsequent interviews are about the video of Lionel.

Anne's family returns to Toronto from Cochrane.

## Relationships

### Brad Heshington

In 2005, Anne got married to Brad Heshington. Brad was a controlling, narcissistic man. Kate had warned Anne about Brad’s behaviours before she married him, but Anne went on to marry Brad anyway. Kate stood by Anne anyway. Anne was married to Brad for 1 year before she divorced him.

### Lionel Carlson

When season 1 begins, Anne is in a common-law relationship with Lionel Carlson. They have two children, Alice and Jayme, together.

Anne has known Lionel for an unknown amount of time. Lionel was a guest at Anne’s wedding to Brad.

## Trivia

Anne smoked a cigarette out of her basement window.