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The fairytale villain who's really just a woman raising someone else's kids and getting blamed for it.
Origin wordSteop meant orphaned or bereaved in Old English
Cinderella mathExisted because childbirth death made remarriage common
Grimm editMany evil mothers were rewritten as stepmothers
Modern realityOver 40% of US adults have a step-relative
Hollywood biasWicked stepmother trope outnumbers wicked stepfathers wildly