Gabrielle Solis
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Gabrielle "Gaby" Miranda Solis is the name of a fictional character on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives. The character is played by actress Eva Longoria.
History
Gabrielle Solis is a former model who married her husband Carlos for money, but found satisfaction with her teenage gardener John Rowland Jesse Metcalfe. She questions her relationship with Carlos, commenting once that she loved him, and all her teenage fantasies had been fulfilled, yet she still wasn't happy. She absolutely despises Carlos' mother Juanita. Towards the end of season one, Gabrielle learned that she was pregnant, as a result of her husband replacing her birth control pills with sugar pills (it is implied that the biological father is John Rowland, as Mary Alice speaks of the baby to come while Gabrielle and John are having sex, however this is academic as the child did not survive). She almost left Carlos after finding out the truth about her birth control pills, but she eventually decided to blackmail him into taking complete care of the baby in return for her testimony. It was recently found out that she is Roman Catholic and refuses to divorce Carlos because of her faith. She lost the baby after being attacked when her house was broken into.Believing Gabrielle to be in pain from her loss, Carlos sent a former inmate, by the name of Hector Ramos, to help her deal with it. Through Hector, Gabrielle began to realize that she was more deeply affected by the loss of the baby than she would at first admit. Her most recent rival is Sister Mary Bernard, a pretty Catholic nun who has apparently caused her husband to turn over a new leaf, and who Gabrielle fears will eventually persuade Carlos to end the marriage. When Gabrielle heard that the Sister's group was short of the money it needed to send Sister Mary to Botswana as part of a relief effort, Gabrielle personally donated the money, just to ensure that Sister Mary would be out of the way (at least for a while). Gabrielle also lied to the doctors on the forms for Carlos' physical evaluation, so that he would be forced to stay home with her. She also invoked the jealousy of Lynette when she planted a supposedly "friendly" kiss on Tom at a party. Lynette got her revenge by making out with Carlos right in front of Gabrielle.
Gabrielle and Carlos want to have a baby, but cannot since Gabby cannot become pregnant again because of her miscarriage. They try adoption. They are to adopt pole-dancer Libby Collins's daughter (who Gabrielle names Lily). Libby changes her minds 3x, ultimately taking Lily back. This left Gabrielle heartbroken.
The Solises finally decide to make their new maid Xiao-Mei the surrogate mother of their baby. The in-vitro fertilisation works and Xiao-Mei gets pregnant. In the season 2 season finale Gabrielle finds out that Carlos is cheating on her with Xiao-Mei. Following this, she surprisingly does not blow up at Carlos; instead Xiao-Mei and her throw Carlos's belongings out of the house.
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