

Gabrielle mows the lawn in her evening gown. However, her relationship with her husband was considerably cooler. But she soon discovered this happened every time Carlos closed a big deal. Gabrielle was touched when tears welled up in his eyes. Carlos, who worked in mergers and acquisitions, proposed on their third date. Since her modeling days in New York, Gabrielle had developed a taste for rich food. Gabrielle Solis, who lives down the block, brought a spicy paella. She then seduced her teenage gardener, John Rowland and the two started an explicit affair. (" The Best Thing That Ever Could Have Happened") Gaby began to feel even more lonely as Carlos keeps prioritizing his work above 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. However, she brags too much about her old life and they don't like her. (" Epiphany") Gaby tried to make friends with Lynette, Susan, Bree and Mary Alice by inviting them round for poker. Carlos tells her to break it off as it's creepy and she reluctantly tells Eddie she cannot have him in her life anymore. (" 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. On their first day oį moving to the Lane, Gaby is seen after sex when her neighbors walk in, and it is clearly an embarrassing moment. Gabrielle and Carlos moved to Wisteria Lane in 2003, to live happily ever after. 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. Gaby was about to be fired but decided to move to the suburbs with her new husband. She attracted the attention of Carlos Solis in one of her runway shows and on their third date, he proposed to her. All of these people, and her agents and photographers, hated Gabrielle but she got away with it due to her success. Gaby developed friendships with such people as Heidi Klum, David Lee Roth and Jon Bon Jovi. (" Suspicious Minds"/" Nice is Different Than Good"/" Thank You So Much"/" Children and Art") She soon became a supermodel who was very well-paid, appearing on magazine covers such as Vogue. With that, Gabrielle left home at the age of fifteen to New York where she met a photographer that she seduced. This led her mother to believe she seduced him. They were happy, but when Gaby was fifteen, he came into her bedroom and sexually assaulted her. (" Putting It Together")Īfter Gaby's father died, Gaby's mother, Lucia Marquez, remarried to a man named Alejandro Perez. Gaby celebrating her quinceañera with Alejandro. (" Smiles of a Summer Night") Gabrielle had believed her whole life that she would not have to try hard because she was pretty.

However, she thought he was merely sleeping and so she carried on smiling all night. 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. (" You Gotta Get a Gimmick") When Gabrielle was five, her father was diagnosed with cancer.

Gaby never liked to think about this and it developed her into a self-hating Mexican. They all lived under a small shack and struggled to make ends meet. She grew up in a very poor home with her beloved father, mother and siblings. Gabrielle Marquez was born in Las Colinas, Texas, on December 8, 1976. Eventually the sense of friendship and family overwhelmed her, and Gabrielle found her happiness on Wisteria Lane, raising a family with the love of her life. During the first three years of marriage, Carlos was always away on business trips, leaving Gaby to become bored, lonely and unhappy, resulting in her having an affair with her teenage gardener, and high-school student, John Rowland. In 2001, Gaby gave up her lavish life in NYC to move to the suburbs of Fairview and adjust to a quieter, more settled lifestyle with Carlos. A former top-model turned trophy wife, Gaby married CEO Carlos Solis, who proposed after their third date. Gabrielle " Gaby" Solis (née Márquez, previously Lang) is one of the main protagonists and titular characters of Desperate Housewives. But now she was about to discover just how exciting her life could get. Of course, Gabrielle only saw her young gardener as a way to infuse her life with a little excitement. Gabrielle was a drowning woman, desperately searching for a life raft.
