Natalie Green
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Natalie Green was a fictional character on the sitcom The Facts of Life. Natalie was played by Mindy Cohn. Natalie's best friend on the program was Tootie, as they were close in age.
Natalie's most defining physical attribute was that she was overweight for her age. However, Natalie had a healthy self-image and was once quoted as saying, "Who wants to be a skinny pencil? I'd rather be a happy Magic Marker!"
Even though she did not fit the mold of a traditional beauty, Natalie was involved in many very special storylines regarding sex. In an early episode, she went out on a date with a boy who spread around a rumor that Natalie was easy. In a Halloween-themed episode, Natalie went trick-or-treating and was nearly the victim of a sexual assault. Toward the end of the series, she became the first of the girls to have sex when she slept with her boyfriend Snake on their one-year anniversary.
Natalie was a budding writer and wrote for the Eastland school newspaper. When she attended Langley College, she became a reporter for the local newspaper in Peekskill. She went to New York City towards the end of the series and decided to stay and pursue her writing career. On the episode where Natalie visits the SOHO loft she will eventually call home, her future roommates include Richard Grieco and David Spade. (The episode, which aired in 1988, was originally set up for Mindy Cohn to transition into a spinoff series, but the plans never materialized).
Natalie was the only one of the girls who was adopted. In one episode, Blair successfully tracked down Natalie's birth mother, but Natalie — who realized that her adoptive parents were her true parents, even though they weren't biologically related to her — refused to answer the phone and hear the results of the search, instead inviting her friends to taste the cake "my mother made." However, thanks in part to a argument that would bring up the subject again, it would be her adopted mother who would finally convince Natalie to meet her biological mother after she told her where to find her in a 1982 episode. But still in the end like the first time around she still considered her adopted mother her true mother, even after sharing with her the meeting she had with her real mother.
Natalie was also Jewish, and her faith was brought up on a number of occasions, most notably when she celebrated Hanukkah while the rest of her friends celebrated Christmas. The heritage was particularly spoken of when Dr. Green, her father, died unexpectedly; Natalie's bottled-up grief formed a continuing part of the storyline for several episodes.
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