Jo McGuire

Jo McGuire.

Jo McGuire was Lizzie and Matt's mother. She cared deeply about Lizzie but was still trying to figure out how to raise a teenager. As a result, she sometimes tended to "mess up" situations in Lizzie's life while trying to help make them better. At the end of each episode, Jo and Lizzie tend to come to an understanding and portray the unfaltering love of a mother-daughter relationship.

Childhood

It is stated in many episodes that Jo, as a child, was a geeky girl who envied anybody that was popular. She treasured her record and CD collections (including Leif Garrett vinyl records). In the Season 1 episode "Between a Rock and a Bra Place", she said that she hated it when her mother embarrassed her (which is ironically what she now does to Lizzie, but doesn't know it). It is revealed that she was born in Walla Walla, Washington.

Love Relationships

Jo is married to Sam McGuire. It is indicated several times that they have been married for fifteen years. They first met during freshman week at High School, according to Sam in "Bye Bye, Hillridge Junior High". As a teenager, she had a crush on the lifeguard at the city pool. When she saw him recently, he "lost all his hair, was assistant manager at the local Dairy Freeze, and lived with his mother", according to Jo in "The Greatest Crush of All".