Everyone has always known who Hulk Hogan is, but thanks to the VH1 show “Hogan Knows Best”, America has become acquainted with the whole Hogan family.

There’s wife ex-wife Linda, recently separated from the Hulkster:

Then there’s older daughter Brooke, who’s mostly known for her trailer-trashtastic get-ups she wears while “singing”:

And finally, there’s the youngest, Nick, who got the spotlight for making a United States Marine who’s served multiple tours in Iraq, John Graziano, a vegetable. He’s now serving out his prison term, where he’s been whining to Mommy and Daddy about how horrible he has it, and Mommy cries that she’s suffering more than the Grazianos:

Just a charming, charming family.

When the show first started, while a little bit quirky, the family seemed mostly normal and well-grounded. Hulk and Linda seemed to have a solid marriage and a good relationship with their kids. Then, the facade crumbled. Hulk and Linda split up. Nick almost killed a Marine and is in jail. Hulk started dating Brooke’s best friend. And poor Brooke seemed to be the only one left without any issues, with the exception of bad taste in clothing.

And now, to add on to her pile of issues, her mom Linda has decided to become a cougar! 48-year-old Linda Hogan has started dating a 19-year-old boy — and not just any 19-year-old boy. Linda’s new boytoy is one of Brooke and Nick’s high school classmates. Unbelievable, huh?

Brooke Hogan’s reaction to her 48-year-old mom, Linda, dating someone 29 years her junior? “I’m totally freaked out,” she told E! satellite radio personality Michael Yo during a conversation the two had off air.

“I personally don’t like it at all or condone it, but she’s my mom, so I have to show her support.”

The Hulkster’s daughter also confirmed that mom’s man-child, Charley Hill, 19, was a classmate of hers and her jailed brother, Nick.

“I went to school with him. He was a grade under me…Me and Nick know him well. Me and Nick are two years apart, and he was right between us (in school).”

While nothing about the Hogans—perma-tans and peroxide ‘dos included—might seem normal to anyone else, Brooke says she thought her family was just a run-of-the-mill Hollywood clan, but that perception has changed a tad.

“I am just staying the course and dealing with it and supporting my family,” says Brooke. “I’m actually on my way to see Nick now…You know, I thought we were one of the normal Hollywood families. It’s crazy watching it all fall apart, but I hope for the best.”

And so we have yet another example of why the so-called “cougar” lifestyle is so horrible.

How incredibly selfish must you be as a mother to do something like this without caring about the effect it will have on your children? It screams self-absorbed. I wonder if Linda — and the other cougars out there — ever stop and think about how it makes their children (and other family members) feel to watch them acting like they’re 18 again. It’s sad and pathetic, which we all already know, but also in my humble opinion extremely selfish. You can’t let your life revolve around what other people will think of you, but I would certainly think that if you’re a good person who loves your family, you wouldn’t want to put them in this kind of situation to begin with. You’d say no to dating your kids’ classmate because you’d know how it would make them feel, know the chaos that they would struggle with over your actions. You’d say no to dressing like a 45-year-old Paris Hilton wannabe or drinking like a frat boy. If you can’t find enough respect for yourself to not do dumb things like this, then at least think of your family.

What Linda Hogan is doing is demeaning to herself, humiliating to her daughter, and quite possibly exploitation of a 19-year-old kid who probably doesn’t know what he’s getting into. It’s not only sad and pathetic, it’s also wrong. We shouldn’t be glorifying women who lead these “Sex and the City” lifestyles. It’s not healthy for anyone involved.

Oh, and to Brooke? You do not have to support your mom in this. You have every right to tell her how selfish what she is doing is, and how hurt, angry, disgusted, betrayed, and humiliated you feel. You aren’t required to get behind something like this just because your mother has the maturity of a dysfunctional sixteen-year-old.