In real life, Reba McEntire is a country superstar who has amassed two dozen No. 1 hits on Billboard's country charts. But the character she played on The WB (and later The CW) lived a much more modest life.

As McEntire sang in Reba's theme song, the Reba onscreen was "a single mother who works too hard, who loves her children and never quits, with soft hands and the heart of a fighter."

And Reba definitely needed that "fighting heart" on the sitcom — especially when her dentist husband, Brock, left her for his dental hygienist, Barbra Jean!

Over the course of the show's six seasons, viewers watched Reba raise her children, Cheyenne, Kyra, and Jake, even taking on Cheyenne's boyfriend, Van, while also trying to deal with Brock and Barbara Jean.