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Gabrielle "Gaby" Solis (née Márquez, previously Lang) is one of the main protagonists and titular characters of Desperate Housewives. A former top-model turned trophy wife, Gaby married CEO Carlos Solis, who proposed after their third date. In 2001, Gaby gave up her lavish life in NYC to move to the suburbs of Fairview and adjust to a quieter, more...
Early life
Gabrielle Marquez was born in Las Colinas, Texas, on December 8, 1976. She grew up in a very poor home with her beloved father, mother and siblings. They all lived under a small shack and struggled to make ends meet. Gaby never liked to think about this and it developed her into a self-hating Mexican. ("You Gotta Get a Gimmick") When Gabrielle was five, her father was diagnosed with cancer. Whenever she would visit him, her mother would tell her that her father didn't want to see them sad - he only wanted to see them happy - so every time they visited him in the hospital, the whole family would smile for him. Gaby was with him when he died. However, she thought he was merely sleeping and so she carried on smiling all night. ("Smiles of a Summer Night") Gabrielle had believed her whole life that she would not have to try hard because she was pretty. After Gaby's father died, Gaby's mother, Lucia Marquez, remarried to a man named Alejandro Perez. They were happy, but when Gaby was fifteen, he came into her bedroom and sexually assaulted her. This led her mother to believe she seduced him. With that, Gabrielle left home at the age of fifteen to New York where she met a photographer that she seduced. She soon became a supermodel who was very well-paid, appearing on magazine covers such as Vogue.. ("Suspicious Minds"/"Nice is Different Than Good"/"Thank You So Much"/"Children and Art") Gaby developed friendships with such people as Heidi Klum, David Lee Roth and Jon Bon Jovi. All of these people, and her agents and photographers, hated Gabrielle but she got away with it due to her success. She attracted the attention of Carlos Solis in one of her runway shows and on their third date, he proposed to her. Gaby was about to be fired but decided to move to the suburbs with her new husband. When dress shopping, Juanita "Mama" Solis had a disagreement with Carlos over the price of the wedding dress, Carlos told her that she had to account for Gaby in his life now and that he would always side with her, however, Carlos's mother remained a constant in their lives. ("Pilot"/"Chromolume No. 7"/"Women and Death") Gabrielle and Carlos moved to Wisteria Lane in 2003, to live happily ever after. On their first day o f moving to the Lane, Gaby is seen after sex when her neighbors walk in, and it is clearly an embarrassing moment. ("Remember, Part 1") Gaby was tired of unpacking and inquired the help of nine-year-old Eddie Orlofsky, to whom she developed a friendship with as he did chores around the house. Carlos tells her to break it off as it's creepy and she reluctantly tells Eddie she cannot have him in her life anymore. ("Epiphany") Gaby tried to make friends with Lynette, Susan, Bree and Mary Alice by inviting them round for poker. However, she brags too much about her old life and they don't like her. Later, Eli Scruggs offers her some advice and she returns to the girls and tells them that her husband is never home and she could really use some company, and they then become good friends. ("The Best Thing That Ever Could Have Happened") Gaby began to feel even more lonely as Carlos keeps prioritizing his work above her. She then seduced her teenage gardener, John Rowland and the two started an explicit affair. ("Remember, Part 2")
Season 1
Gabrielle attends the wake of Mary Alice Young with her husband, Carlos Solis. On the way, Carlos tells her to casually mention how much he paid for her new diamond necklace, but Gaby refuses and the two argue. Later, Carlos asks Gabrielle if she will attend a business event with him but she refuses, as Tanaka will be there and every time she is around him he tries to grab her ass. Carlos says that he made a lot of money with him and tells Gabrielle that if Tanaka wants to grab her ass, she will let him. Their gardener, John Rowland, cuts his finger and Gaby sends him inside to get a band aid. When Carlos leaves, she joins him and it is revealed that the two are having an affair when they begin to have sex on the table. Later, after sex, John asks Gabrielle why she is still married to Carlos, she says it is because he promised her everything she ever wanted. John then asks her why she's so unhappy, and Gabrielle says it turned out she wanted all the wrong things. John then asks for a drag of her cigarette but she refuses as he is "much too young to smoke." Later, before heading out to the party, Carlos says that he plans to fire John because the lawn has not been mowed. At the party, Gabrielle tips a waiter to keep a drink in Carlos' hand all night and drives home to mow her lawn in her fancy evening gown. The next day, Carlos finds it odd that the grass is mowed, but decides not to fire John. Gabrielle, Bree, Lynette and Susan are clearing Mary Alice's clothes when they come across a blackmail note Mary Alice received on the day she killed herself, leaving them wondering what she did and why she committed suicide. ("Pilot") Gabrielle is bathing with John as the two continue to dwell in their steamy affair. They get out and Gaby sees Carlos pulling up in the driveway earlier than expected. She panics and rushes John out of the house, bunching up his clothes and throwing them at him as he falls out of the window. Carlos enters the house and looks around suspiciously before he asks where John is, and he pops up at the window tending to the bushes, Carlos can only see him from the waist up and is oblivious that John isn't wearing any pants. Later, Gabrielle goes to John’s house and tells him that the two of them have to be more discrete about their affair. He presents her with a gift: a rose, to which he describes as perfect, just like her. Gaby realizes that he is actually falling in love with her. Later, Carlos gives her a new, fancy, very expensive car and they drive away in it in glee as John watches with a sad look on his face. ("Ah, But Underneath") Gabrielle, Bree, Lynette and Susan plan to throw a dinner party in Mary Alice’s honor. Gaby later calls John to her house from school, and he comes right away and the two begin kissing passionately. Gaby is shocked to see a little girl, Ashley, watching them through the door. Later, Gaby talks to Ashley and she tells Gabrielle that she wants a bike for her silence. Gaby buys her a bike but realizes that she needs to be taught how to ride it, so Gaby takes care of that as well. The girl is sure not to say anything to Carlos and Gaby is relieved. She later attends the train-wreck of a dinner party. ("Pretty Little Picture") The girls contemplate whether or not to give Paul the blackmail note and ultimately decide to. He reacts rather oddly and says that Mary Alice had many problems and left the notes to herself; Gaby and Lynette think he is lying. Gabrielle and John share a romantic bath but John gets out when he thinks Mr. Solis is home. Gaby assures him it is just the cable guy but he runs out anyway leaving behind a souvenir: his sock. Later, the cable guy finishes his work but slips on suds and is rushed to hospital. Carlos is suspicious as to why the cable guy was there so late. He soon finds the sock and Gaby takes a pile of socks and puts them in to Yao Lin’s cleaning closet, saying that she uses them to clean and must have left one behind. Carlos later beats up the cable guy, thinking he is sleeping with Gaby, but when he realizes from the decor that the cable guy is gay, he leaves panicked. Gabrielle later sees this on the news but says nothing. ("Who's That Woman?") Carlos' mother, Juanita, arrives to Wisteria Lane for a “surprise visit." In reality, Carlos secretly invited her because he has suspicions that Gabrielle is having an affair, and Juanita offers to help him. Gaby plans to meet John in a hotel but tells Juanita that she is shopping; Juanita insists she tag along and Gaby is forced to take her. At the store, Gaby plants an unpaid-for item in Juanita’s bag and she is held up by security while Gabrielle sneaks off to meet John. Later, Juanita tells Gaby about the absence of Carlos' father. She reveals that her husband never actually left her and Carlos for a waitress, as she had led Carlos to believe all of his life. Juanita tells Gaby of his abuse towards her, and that the first and last time he hit Carlos, she "took care of it," implying that she killed Carlos' father. Gaby becomes slightly scared of her. ("Come In, Stranger") Juanita continues to follow Gabrielle wherever she goes and Gabrielle begins to tire of it. She also becomes jealous when she learns that John is dating Danielle Van de Kamp. When Juanita cleans the girls out during poker, Carlos reveals to Gaby that she has a gambling problem. Gaby plans to take advantage of this, and Gaby tricks her into gambling so she can leave to be with John. When Juanita maxes out a credit card, Gaby offers to cover it, and Juanita is thankful. Carlos then tells his mother that Gaby knows of the gambling addiction. When Gaby leaves the house, she does not associate with John Rowland, pointing out to Juanita that he is the one she is having an affair with. ("Running to Stand Still") Gabrielle grows even more jealous of Danielle and John and she attempts to break them up by offering to pay for Danielle’s modeling school, much to Bree’s dismay. Gaby is on the phone with John and puts the phone down leaving Juanita to find it and see that the last person she called was John. Later, when John comes around and he and Gaby indulge in breakup sex, Juanita walks in on them with a camera and takes multiple pictures. Gabrielle and John chase her and she runs across the street. At that point, a car drives by and hits Juanita. Gabrielle manages to get rid of the camera before the Lane gathers around the tragedy. ("Anything You Can Do") Juanita is left comatose as a result of being hit by the car and Gabrielle is thankful that her secret is safe. She discovers that John Rowland was feeling so guilty about the fact that he caused her accident that he confessed the affair to a priest. Gabrielle visits Father Crowley and he knows of the affair. He judges her and she tries to explain herself. She tells him that she wants to be happy and he tells her that is selfish, she says she knows. ("Guilty") Gabrielle is sitting by her mother-in-law who is in her comatose state and hoping for another great idea while reflecting on her previous ones. Gabrielle hears from a nurse that the nursing staff desperately needs funding, so Gaby decides to throw a charity fashion show help. While there, Gaby sees Helen Rowland who thanks her for taking in John, her son, as their gardener; Gabrielle assures her that it has been her pleasure. Later, when preparing for the show, Gaby sees John and moves her foot up to his crotch under the table. When Susan drops something and sees this from under her own table, she is shocked. When she confronts Gabrielle, who admits to the affair, Susan is disgusted and Gaby fails to rationalize her actions. Susan is later confronted by John who tells her that he is in love with Gabrielle, to which Susan tells him that Gabrielle will never leave Carlos and gives him a hug to comfort him. Helen sees from afar, and knowing John is "doing a hot housewife" after overhearing him, believes it to be Susan. Susan is planned to be the finale for the fashion show but is attacked by Helen before she goes on, ruining her dress and leaving her humiliated. Susan tells Gabrielle that she must confess to Helen and when Gabrielle does so, Helen is extremely angry. Later, Gaby sees police cars pull up outside her home and assumes that they are for her. However, she discovers that they are actually for Carlos, who is arrested for the use of slave labor after Tanaka set him up. ("Suspicious Minds") Unless Carlos's passport can be found, he will not be granted bail, and unfortunately, Gabrielle cannot find it anywhere. When her car is impounded, she realizes that all of her goods are at risk of being taken should they be suspected of being bought with the money made from slave labor. With this, Gabrielle gathers all of her possessions and stores them in Bree's garage. When people come to Gabrielle's house to take her possessions away, they cannot find them and leave, to the relief of Gabrielle. Carlos tells Gabrielle that she needs to find his passport and some papers and to bring him the passport and burn the papers. Gaby, no longer trusting her husband, reads the papers and burns the passport instead. ("Come Back to Me") Gabrielle is in need of money and Carlos's lawyer says that she must find the passport. Gaby says that she still cannot find it so he suggests that she get a job, much to the amusement of her maid, Yao Lin. When Gabrielle is told that she can no longer get the kind of high-class modeling jobs that she used to receive, she is forced to present a car in a dress in the mall. When she is there, Tom and Lynette walk by and she tries to hide the fact that she works there. She tries to hide from them but her dress gets caught and she is forced to go a full circuit of the turn-table, leaving her to lie and tell them that she is shopping - they do not look convinced. Later, Gaby's electricity runs out so she calls the lawyer telling him that she knows where the passport is. She tells Carlos she will make his bail as she retrieves his burnt passport. ("Move On") Carlos arrives home on house arrest, something Gabrielle was definitely not expecting. ("Every Day a Little Death") John's parents tell Gabrielle that John has moved out and dropped out of college, and they ask Gaby to convince him to go home with the threat of police regarding the affair. Gabrielle visits John and asks him about his situation, and he says that he will make money with his gardening business and then proposes to Gabrielle. She rejects it. Later, John's parents return to Gabrielle and are mad at her for not being able to convince John. Gaby talks to his father and he says he understands teenage boys and wishes that he could have done something like John did, and he leaves with his wife. ("Your Fault") Gabrielle fires Yao Lin and is forced to get a job. She gets one at a mattress depot but is soon fired for snapping at customers after being treated like an object. She then reluctantly starts to work at a cosmetics store where one of her customers is Yao Lin to whom Gaby is forced to apply make up to. ("Love is in the Air") John can no longer be the Solises' gardener so his roommate, Justin, offers to fill in for him. Gabrielle realizes that he just wants an affair with her so she dismisses him. Later, she sees that Carlos has hired him and is angry. He arrives in her bedroom and tries to hit on her but she tells him to back off. He then threatens that he could call Carlos at any second and tell him about her affair with John. Gabrielle later goes to Justin's apartment and rants at him, and he says that he really needed to sleep with her, as he fears he may be gay. He is confused so Gaby kisses him, and when he says he felt nothing, Gaby tells him he is definitely gay. ("Impossible") Gabrielle and Carlos receive sewer water backing up from their outtake pipe. However, they cannot afford to get it fixed. Gaby begins to freshen up in her friends' houses whenever she can. Later, she sees a portable toilet at Edie's construction site and steals it, moving it to her backyard so she and Carlos can use it to go to the bathroom. Later, Bree asks her if she is having money troubles, as she is constantly going to the bathroom, and Gaby tells her that a great friend would ignore it. Later, Bree comes to Gaby with a large loan, and Gaby tells Bree that she is being a great friend by helping her. ("The Ladies Who Lunch") Mama Solis awakens from her coma and tries to get out of the hospital to warn her son of Gabrielle's affair. However, she trips down the stairs and dies. Gaby is later called with the news and comforts Carlos, but she becomes angry when Carlos wants to pay for an extravagant funeral, as they are struggling to get by. At the funeral, Gaby sees that Carlos bought Juanita a crypt, and she storms off and they argue. The hospital later tries to cover up the real cause of Juanita's death with a seven figure settlement that they give to Gabrielle, one that she does not tell Carlos of... ("There Won't Be Trumpets") Gabrielle knows that Carlos wants children very badly and tells him how great he is as they will never have kids. What she doesn't know is that Carlos has been tampering with her birth control for months and that within one week, she'd be pregnant. Gaby is later visited by the hospital chairman who gave her the settlement and he has now told Carlos, he is mad at Gabrielle as it could have gotten him out of going to jail, Gaby said that he would have spent it on the lawyers and he says that he would have, she argues that when he gets out they will have money to start over with. Carlos wants to make Gaby sign a post-nup so she tells him that she read the papers he told her to burn and blackmails him with the information, later, Carlos moves the money that she is using against him and forces Gaby to sign it and twists her wrist, she runs to John and sleeps with him as an act of revenge. ("Children Will Listen") Gabrielle's credit card becomes frozen and so she sees John again, he allows her to use his credit card but when she is out, the card is cut off due to odd activity just as Gabrielle has eaten lunch, she is forced to find another way to pay for it so she sits with a rich man and flirts with him, he offers to cover her meal. ("Live Alone and Like It") Gabrielle goes out to buy a new car and finds one that she likes. However, she throws up in it and the sales girl deciphers that Gabrielle is pregnant, a claim she vehemently denis. Later, she stops by the drug store to get a pregnancy test and finds out that she is pregnant. Gabrielle realizes that her birth control has been tampered with and confronts Carlos at his "going away" party for prison, she slaps him. Gabrielle is faced by Susan, who checks to see if she is okay, and Gaby tells her that she is mainly worried as she does not know who the father is. Meanwhile, Susan's kitchen explodes. ("Fear No More") Later, Carlos tells his wife that it was actually his mother who must have messed with her birth control, and Gaby is maddened but believes his story, at first. She later tells John that she is pregnant and he is shocked as he may be the father, he decides to tell Carlos of the affair but Gaby manages to stop him by throwing salsa in his eyes. Carlos invites John back to be their gardener. ("Sunday in the Park with George") Gabrielle gets the cold shoulder from Justin regarding the baby situation, he calls her a bitch and she slaps him across the face. Gaby says she is leaving Carlos and packs a small suitcase, he cannot go after her due to his ankle bracelet, she gets into her car and he asks about their baby to which she replies, "Who ever said you were the father?" and drives off. He steels Edie's car and drives after her. She goes to John's apartment but only Justin is there, she makes up with him and they hug, causing Carlos to believe that she is sleeping with him. He beats up Justin and is arrested for gay bashing due to his previous crime of beating up their gay cable guy. He believes that Gaby told him of the affair to make him mad, she goes along with that story. ("Goodbye for Now") Gabrielle testifies at Carlos's court date and convinces the jury that he is not a gay basher due to what she had told him, he merely goes away for the slave labor crime. John comes into the court room and admits to Carlos that he was the one sleeping with Gaby, Carlos goes nuts and tries to attack John but it looks like he is going after Justin again, which is bad for his trial. ("One Wonderful Day")
Season 2
Gabrielle finds John waiting for her in her house with luggage; he plans on staying there and building a relationship, but Gaby tells him he is crazy and that she is very mad at him for the stunt he pulled in court and getting Carlos possibly sent to jail for eight years. She kicks him out. Gaby later visits Carlos in prison and he refuses to talk to her due to her affair, she tries to defend of herself but he is uncaring. She then asks him what he wants and he says that we wants a paternity test. Gabrielle goes to the hospital to get some paternity results, but has no intention of taking the test, they refuse to give her fake results and she befriends a haggard woman holding test results. Gaby tells her that she doesn't need the piece of paper to ruin her life and takes it from her to use it as her own. Gaby shows Carlos the results and he falls for them, however he is still mad at her for the affair and she says she is mad at him for tricking her into getting pregnant. They are thankful that they are still rich. Susan tells the ladies of Mary Alice's secret. ("Next") Gabrielle takes checks to Carlos in prison for him to sign and she says it is crazy as she could just sign them herself if he were to give her access to their accounts. He says that it would stop her from visiting but she insists that she still would. He brings up the affair again and she asks him when he will forgive her, he says he is willing to if she regains his trust. They argue and part with a kiss. Carlos later calls Gaby back again and she asks him why he is so freaked out, he says that there is this guy, Richie, who threatened Carlos and said he will beat him up if he will not come up with $7,000 for him. Later, Gaby goes to a bad neighborhood to meet with Richie's girlfriend, Rita Rivera, and give her the money, she is maddened as the money is for her to get a boob job and she doesn't want one, Gabrielle convinces her not to go through with it and leaves with her money. When Gabrielle visits Carlos again, he has been beaten up, after another argument, he gives her access to the accounts. ("You Could Drive a Person Crazy") Gabrielle is staring out of her window and imagines John trimming her bushes, he soon enters the house and the two begin to have sex, however, it is a fantasy and Gaby is actually staring at her new gardener, Ralph, who is less than attractive. Gaby drives to another neighborhood, craving John, and watches from her car as he mows someone's lawn. Gabrielle visits Carlos in prison and he has forgotten their anniversary, she is mad at him and he brings up the affair yet again, she tells him that she feels tons of guilt so he should just back off. She says that John loved her like no one else did and didn't treat her like a possession. Later, Gaby drives her new car to John's place of work again, but this time, a middle-aged woman emerges from the house and beckons John, he goes inside with her, she sees that they are sleeping together and is infuriated, she gets John's electric chainsaw and destroys the garden with it as an act of revenge. John later visits her and tells her that he is in love with the other woman now, however, it is revealed he is lying to make her jealous, he offers to get back together but Gaby refuses, he is maddened and leaves. She then visits Carlos in prison and finally apologizes for the affair. ("You'll Never Get Away from Me") It is revealed that every time Gabrielle visits Carlos in prison, the prisoners, that are attracted to her, make crude comments, however, they turn out to come to her advantage when she is haggling with her lawyer over a conjugal visit, he makes a remark about her affair and she slaps him, the prisoners tell him to apologize and begin to beat him through the bars, a prison riot ensues. Gaby must get a new lawyer and meets with womanizer David Bradley, she denies his attraction. Thanks to David, Gaby is granted her conjugal visit and she asks Carlos what their future has in store if he is kept behind bars for eight years. He reveals his growing excitement for their future baby. ("My Heart Belongs to Daddy") Gabrielle goes to jail to visit Carlos and shows him the sonogram picture for their baby. She tells him that his new lawyer will be arriving soon and he asks if he is a good one, Gaby says he hasn't lost a case in six years. David enters the visiting room and Carlos simply says, "I don't think so" and walks away, thinking Gaby is attracted to David. Later, Gaby and Carlos go to a prison couples counseling session. The priest asks how their marriage and Gaby says it is shaky at best. She tells him of the lawyer situation, an argument ensues amongst the group and Gaby refuses to discuss it anymore. David later visits Gabrielle and David tells her that he'll turn around Carlos's attitude the next day. Gaby and David visit Carlos in prison again, and, much to Gaby's dismay, he says that he will sleep with Carlos' wife, that he will aggressively pursue her until she gives in. He tells Carlos that this will only happen if he is fired. Carlos hires him. Gaby later goes to the graveyard with the rest of the girls for Rex's reburial as Bree loses it and throws her ring into the grave, mad at him, Gaby asks her if she may regret this, Bree says she won't. ("They Asked Me Why I Believe in You") Gabrielle is at the courthouse with David and there is someone there with an agenda with him as he wants a restraining order lifted, David refuses and the man, Louis, pulls a gun out, David immediately pushes Gaby out of the way and the gun goes off but does not hit David due to him blocking it with his briefcase. The gun is soon thrown at David and he takes possession of it causing the police to make a mistake and shoot him. Gaby visits David in the hospital the next day and asks him if he will be able to proceed with the case, he will. At Carlos's hearing, David asks for a recess as he cannot represent Carlos. Carlos tells Gaby that she needs to get him back and the next day, in her bedroom, she offers him a secret affair, David kisses her but Gabrielle bats him off when she realizes he is doing it out of lust, not love, and orders him to be in court the next day to defend Carlos. ("I Wish I Could Forget You") Gabrielle is less than happy when her pregnancy begins to take affect and her weight starts to go up. She will be embarrassed when her old modeling friends arrive and tries extremely hard to fit into a tight fitting dress, as to hide the pregnancy, she goes on a forty eight-hour flash-diet also so that she is not viewed as another fat housewife which she vowed to never become. Bree helps her fit into the dress and tells her that parenthood is a cherished gift and some things cannot be covered up. When Gabrielle's friends arrive they immediately know she is pregnant but do not mock her, instead, they congratulate her. She returns home later that night to find a box of half-eaten ice cream, causing her to think there is an intruder in the house. It is not long before she becomes face-to-face with the intruder and throws the ice cream at him and runs. She is running down the stairs and trips halfway down, she is lying on the floor when he comes down the stairs, he looks at her and simply walks out the front door. An ambulance later arrives and Gaby is taken away, she asks Bree to fetch something and Bree returns with Gaby's sonogram photo, she has lost the baby. ("Color and Light") After the break-in at the Solis home, a meeting of the neighborhood watch is called to order due to the whole street being worried that a thief is on the loose. Gabrielle is saddened that she suffered from a miscarriage due to her fall and decides to get rid of all memory of it ever existing in the first place so that she can move on. Carlos is heavily sedated when Gaby visits him due to the episodes he had once he learned of the loss of the baby. When he becomes emotional once more, she asks the prison guard to up his dosage. She soon arrives home to find Hector, an ex-con friend of Carlos, on her front porch, he says he was sent there by Carlos to keep an eye out in case the intruder decides to return. Gaby tries to get him to leave but he doesn't, she then bribes him but when the two leave for the bank, he reveals that the side of the car that she is sitting cannot be opened from the inside and that Carlos didn't send him there to look out for intruders, she becomes worried and he drives off. They stop and Gaby is let out, she kicks off her heels and runs for it when Hector goes to get something from the trunk, she looks back and sees he is merely holding a balloon. He says that Carlos sent him there to help her get over the loss of her child and the balloon represents the child. She gives her real feelings on the subjects and is finally able to let the balloon fly off into the air. Later, Gabrielle's intruder is tackled by Mike and arrested, Gaby confirms that it is the correct person. ("The Sun Won't Set") Carlos is put on parole and is a changed man as he starts writing letters to a nun, Sister Mary Bernard, who helped his parole case get moved up. Gaby thinks this is nice until she finds out that Sister Mary is young and attractive, Carlos assures her that the relationship is strictly platonic. Gaby invites Mary over the next day to test this and Mary says that Carlos is becoming a much more spiritual person around their ministry. Gabrielle is maddened when Carlos tells Mary that he would like to donate his car to charity, he goes to find the deed and Gaby distracts him by sleeping wth him with Mary downstairs. They return and Gaby tells Mary that Carlos is keeping the car and she should back off, she says she has no intention of doing so and advises her and Carlos to get an annulment. Gaby threatens her not to get her claws into her marriage, Mary says she will have to do better than that. ("That's Good, That's Bad") Carlos announces that he will be going to Africa on a religious mission to help the poor and the sick. Gaby initially believes that this is the doing of Sister Mary, but soon learns that she will not be attending due to funding. She gives the $8000 so Carlos can stay home but Mary says that he should come anyway so that she can have a male companion. Gabrielle is maddened still, and so she "forgets" to tell a nurse about Carlos' allergy to eggs and he has a bad reaction to the yellow fever vaccine and so is forced to stay at home. As Gabrielle holds Carlos in bed, he complains about how hot the village is and moans the name "Sister Mary". ("Coming Home") At a party, Gabrielle is reminiscent of her cheerleader days and Tom tells of how a cheerleader would never have kissed him in high school, Gaby apologizes to him on behalf of all cheerleaders and jokingly kisses him. Lynette is less than thrilled by the kiss and becomes mad and jealous of Gabrielle. Lynette hears from Bree of Gaby's affair with John Rowland and tells Gaby that she knows this and she better watch out after she finds her in her house, alone with Tom. The whole neighborhood soon knows of the affair and Gaby says that Carlos can even the score by sleeping with someone else. Lynette visits Gaby to make amends and they end up friends once more, however, Lynette feels she should level the playing-field and kisses Carlos in front of Gabrielle. Carlos then asks Lynette to have an affair with him but she refuses. ("One More Kiss") Gaby learns from her gardener that her ex-boyfriend has posted nude photos of her on a porn site. She then asks Carlos to visit him and force him to give up the photos through intimidation. Carlos refuses as he is no longer that person and Gaby is displeased. They go anyway and Carlos talks to Scott and he mentions that he is more than happy to give up the photos as she isn't getting many hits and says that Gabrielle isn't "internet hot". Carlos throws him through a window. ("We're Gonna Be All Right") Gabrielle is playful towards a baby at church and Carlos asks her if she has reconsidered having children, she says that she wants to postpone pregnancy plans due to her recent miscarriage. They argue as Father Crowley announces that Sister Mary Bernard has returned. Mary gives a speech and Gaby audibly yells, "Son of a bitch!" and blames the woman behind her. Carlos later tells Mary of his no-baby woes and she gives him a packet on catholic annulment, he shows this to Gabrielle who believes to be being blackmailed into having a baby. Gaby reports to Father Crowley that Carlos and Sister Mary are sleeping together to get her nun status revoked, she then confesses to another priest that she lied to Father Crowley to get it off her conscious. Carlos tells Gaby that Mary is to be relocated for an unknown reason and Gaby stops by the church to gloat and say goodbye. As Gaby is leaving, Mary throws a scrub brush at her sparking a fight. Gaby punches her in the face and Mary pulls Gaby's hair, Mary is then pushed into candles by Gabrielle and her arm catches alight, Gabrielle grabs a flag to drapes Sister Mary in it to extinguish the flames, she checks she is alright and Mary bites Gaby, the two tumble to the floor, fighting, but the fight is soon broken up by the priest. Carlos yells at her for what she has done and Gabrielle agrees to having a baby with him, he is happy. ("There's Something About a War") Gabrielle and Carlos are asked by Father Crowley if they will home Xiao-Mei, a Chinese woman who was being kept as a slave. Gabrielle is initially resistant but her attitude towards her new maid changes when she fixes her dress and begins to prepare her lavish, delicious meals. Gaby asks Carlos if they can invite her to work for them full-time and apply for her citizenship, Carlos is now reluctant and Gaby is mad. The next day, Gabrielle talks up America to Xiao-Mei to get her to want to stay there, she gives her a piece of jewelry which she says is "worthless" but Xiao-Mei sees this as an act of pure kindness and hugs Gabrielle. Xiao-Mei later refuses to go home as she views Gaby and Carlos as her new family, she comes to stay with them full-time. ("Silly People") Gabrielle comes home to find that her mother, Lucia, is there with Carlos. Gaby asks her mother why she is there, she says that her boyfriend left her and she needed a place to stay. Gabrielle finds out that, due to her miscarriage injuries, she may not be able to carry another child. Lucia learns of this and offers to be Gaby and Carlos's surrogate. Gaby is unsettled by the idea but Carlos is overjoyed. Gaby drives her mother out to a hotel to have lunch with her but kicks her out of the car telling her to stay away from her. Carlos is not too happy about this and Gaby says that because of the awkwardness that has been building up through her mother since she left home, she would not understand. Carlos visits Lucia in her hotel room to smooth things over, he tells her that she needs to understand why Gaby left home. He learns that she believes that Gaby's stepfather was seduced by Gabrielle, Carlos argues that she was raped by him but Lucia refuses to believe so and says that she is forgiving Gaby for what she did. Carlos believes it should be the other way around and tells Lucia that she may no longer be their surrogate. ("Thank You So Much") Carlos and Gabrielle visit an adoption agency and they are asked to provide a photographic evidence to prove that they are fit parents. They do this by asking Lynette to let them pretend to be the godparents of their children. They manage to gain the approval of the adoption agent in charge of their case, Rhoda, but are damned by one of its employees: none other than Helen Rowland, the mother of Gaby's former lover, John. She informs her colleague that Gabrielle "raped" her son and that Carlos served jail time on slave labor charges. They are out of luck and forced to get an adoption lawyer whom they pay a large sum of money to get them to find a baby for them. ("There is No Other Way") Gabrielle is annoyed when all of her mother-interviewees are "ugly people" and she explains to her lawyer that she wants an attractive baby. They find no luck until they are introduced to Libby Collins, a pregnant pole dancer. She meets the beauty standards of Gabrielle and consents to adoption, however, when she learns Gaby and Carlos are Mexican, she refuses her baby as they are "underprivileged." Gaby gives Libby a gift to ensure her the baby and Libby is grateful, however, she is unaware that Libby knows who the father is and intends upon bending Gaby and Carlos to her will... ("Could I Leave You?") Gaby and Carlos buy Libby yet another gift to ensure them a baby. They go to the strip club where they meet Libby's boyfriend, Frank, who is under the impression that Libby will be raising the baby. There is a chance that Gaby and Carlos may not get the baby. They go to their lawyer and find out that to receive the baby, they must first get consent forms from Frank. They attempt to bribe him but find out he is not the real father, his brother is. The next day, Libby goes into labor and gives birth to a beautiful baby girl: Lily Helm. Gaby is in love with her straight away and an argument ensues between Frank and Libby causing Carlos and Gaby to leave the hospital with the baby in order to make sure that they keep her. ("Everybody Says Don't") A judge grants Gabrielle and Carlos temporary custody of Lily as the father is currently on spring break and cannot attend the court dates. When Gaby is woken by Lily late at night, she passes the motherly duties to Xiao-Mei so that she can sleep herself. To show her gratitude, Gaby gives Xiao-Mei a spa certificate. When Gaby is getting ready to go to lunch with Bree, in a rush she gives the baby to Xiao-Mei. Gaby learns that Bree saw Xiao-Mei using her gift certificate and Gaby rushes home, vowing never to leave Lily alone again. ("Don't Look at Me") While walking with Lily, Gabrielle and Carlos are approached by Dale, Lily's biological father and his brother Frank. Dale tells them that he wants his baby for his brother to raise, but Gaby refuses as she has custody of her. Gabrielle makes a surprise visit to Dale's school and pulls him aside to ask him to sign the papers, he refuses. She then takes to the podium in front of the football team and after much convincing, Dale signs the necessary papers allowing Gaby and Carlos to adopt Lily. Later, the police arrive at Gaby's house to take Lily away and she is confused, she sees Libby there with Frank who want to raise the baby, Gaby is mad at them but they take her anyway. Gaby tells the police that there has been a mistake as Lily is their baby as they feed her, bathe her and get up in the middle of the night to rock her. She says that that is crazy because that is outside of her personality. She mentions that Carlos sings to her and tells them that they cannot take her way as it's too late because they have already fallen in love with her. The baby is taken anyway and Gabrielle screams for them not to take her from her as the car containing her baby drives away. She is extremely emotional. ("it Wasn't Meant to Happen") Gabrielle is still distraught over the loss of Lily and invites the girls over to console her. She learns that Xiao-mei has received many warnings that she will be deported soon. Gaby and Carlos figure that if she were to become their surrogate, then she will be able to stay as they cannot deport a pregnant woman. Xiao-Mei declines the offer as she values her virginity and if she were to get a husband, he will not want an impure woman. Gabrielle changes her mind and on the day of the insemination, Xiao-mei lies naked on the bed ready to have sex with Carlos, not knowing what surrogacy is exactly. Gaby finds this and stops Carlos from ogling her, the situation is fixed but Carlos finds himself attracted to Xiao-Mei. ("I Know Things Now") Xiao-Mei becomes pregnant as the insemination was successful. She develops morning sickness due to the smell of Gabrielle's perfume. Gaby is maddened that Carlos seems to be treating Xiao-Mei better than herself and demands to know why, he says it is because she is carrying their child hence why they must give up their bed and Gaby must give up her fragrances. Gaby sprays her perfume all around the bedroom as to make Xiao-Mei want to leave. Carlos knows what Gaby did and is extremely angered. He sleeps on the couch, and, is comforted with food from Xiao-Mei. They begin to talk and get a bit too cozy... ("No One is Alone") Carlos keeps insisting upon Gabrielle having to leave the house alone, as first exampled by the tennis lessons he canceled on her. She hears a story on the news about a businessman in his forties who got killed in a car accident when doing community service (which is what Carlos said he was doing), Gaby is shocked and saddened as she believes it to be Carlos. She rushes home and tells Xiao-Mei, frantically, that Carlos is dead, she says, "Please, don't kill him." Gaby is confused but rushes inside, she is happy to see Carlos alive and well, having paid Ralph to take his place. She later addresses Xiao-Mei's words and asks her why she would kill Mr. Solis, she doesn't give an answer. When she is over at Lynette's, she hears on Penny's baby monitor people having sex, Lynette says it picks up random frequencies from time to time and Gaby tells her not to turn it off, she rushes home to find that they were hearing Carlos and Xiao-Mei, who have been carrying out a secret affair. Gabrielle is extremely maddened and Carlos argues that she is the one who told him to have an affair, she says she would have been fine with anyone other than the woman who's carrying their child, she kicks him out but must accommodate Xiao-Mei through her pregnancy. ("Remember, Part 1"/"Remember, Part 2")
•Gabrielle Solis was the first of the main housewives to be cast. Eva Longoria reportedly landed the role on February 9, 2004.
•Laura Harring also auditioned for the role of Gabrielle.
•Roselyn Sanchez auditioned for the role also but the producers thought she wasn't right for the role because of her heavy Puerto Rican accent.
•When Marc Cherry was casting, he asked Eva, "Do you like the script?" She said, "not meaning to be conceited, but I only read my part", then he thought "she's Gaby".
•Gabrielle is the youngest from the main four housewives.
•Gabrielle is the second youngest from the ten housewives with the youngest being Angie Bolen.
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