Beginning on Monday, June 15, four episodes of Michelle Stafford's (Nina, GH) newest Web endeavor, THE SECRET MIND OF A SINGLE MOM, will be available on www.nickmom.com.
"I'm really excited!" beams Stafford, who wrote, directed and stars in the series (alongside real-life daughter Natalia, 5). Nickolodeon reached out to the actress after catching her first Web show, THE STAFFORD PROJECT. "For me, the start of this was from social media and particularly Instagram," Stafford reports. "I would put stuff up about being a single mom and I had a barrage of women respond to things regarding being a mom — a single mom in particular, but married women said, ‘I feel like I’m doing this all alone, too!’ I think anything that a single mom does, a non-single mom can relate to, as well, because so much regarding the children falls to the mother."
Meanwhile, "The guys at Nickolodeon were creating this new channel, Nick Mom, and they wanted edgy mom shows, things that women could relate to. They wanted to do a show that represented single moms. They, too, realized that there is a whole group of women out there that are not being spoken to by any particular show. They saw THE STAFFORD PROJECT and they really liked the self-deprecation aspect of it. They said, ‘Would you create a comedy show for us for single moms? We love how you make fun of yourself and we would love something like that for our channel.’ So I created, along with them, THE SECRET MIND OF A SINGLE MOM, which is just a funny show about the minutiae of being a mom. They are short shows, like two minutes, and I have four of them right out of the gate, so you can easily binge-watch, just like you do ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK or HOUSE OF CARDS, but in a seven-minute time span. They’re all being released on Monday morning on www.nickmom.com. I’m in them with my daughter, Natalia, and I wrote and directed them. Natalia, of course, steals the show, but that's okay — I knew going in that that was going to happen!"
As for a second season of THE STAFFORD PROJECT, she assures, “We’re still working on it! It will be back.”
