Charmaine Craine

CHARACTER
Charmaine
Gender	Female
Date of Birth	-
First Appearance	Pilot
Last Appearance	- From This Day Forward
Occupation	Vitamin sales-woman
Number of episodes	36
Relatives	Tara (sister) Wheels (daughter) Beverly Craine (mother) Frank Craine (father) Kate(niece) Marshall (nephew) Max (brother-in-law)
Portrayed by	Rosemarie DeWitt

Charmaine Craine (Rosemarie DeWitt ) is Tara's self-absorbed younger sister. She resents Tara for always being the center of attention and accuses her of faking her disorder. Cody wrote Charmaine as an antagonist because she wanted "a voice for the skeptics". She worked for a mail-order vitamin company before an incident involving one of Tara's alters caused her to lose her job. Her first husband pressured her into getting breast augmentation surgery, which resulted in deformed, lopsided breasts. She undergoes corrective surgery, and starts to bond with Buck , who takes care of her while she recovers. In the season 2 premiere she gets engaged. She also finds out she's pregnant and discovers the baby is Neil's, a short chubby ex boyfriend and friend of Max's , and admits to Tara that she is still attracted to him, while also in love with her tall, fit, handsome fiancé, Nick , who leaves her at the altar. She and Tara visit Mimi and, at the end of season 2 , Tara and Charmaine begin to understand that Charmaine's ignorance of the abuses she and Tara suffered as children is a result of Tara's protection of her sister, which is likely the cause of the formation or her earliest alters. In the season 3 episode "Wheels" Charmaine gives birth to her daughter, whom Neil names Cassandra "Wheels" Kowalski .