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( Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel )]] Lorelai Victoria Gilmore (born April 1968 ) is a Fictional Character on the Television Series '' Gilmore Girls '', played by Lauren Graham . She was named after her father's mother, Lorelai "Trix" Gilmore ( Marion Ross ) and is Rory 's mother. Raised in Hartford, Connecticut Lorelai is a child of the eighties and part of the MTV generation. : Lorelai: It's my baby box. It's full of all these little things, mementos and stuff from the night Rory was born. I haven't taken it out in ages...My Walkman with the homemade compilation tape still in it. " 99 Luftballons ," some R.E.M. , some Thompson Twins . : Sookie: I never cared for them. : Lorelai: The magazine I was reading that night, with a special feature on who's hotter - Andrew McCarthy or Emilio Estevez . : —Season 4, Ep. 7 "The Festival of Living Art" Her wealthy socialite parents, Richard and Emily , raised her to be a proper young lady of good breeding. They had her future in society planned out and arranged for her to come out to society after her sixteenth birthday, but Lorelai was always rebellious and resentful of her structured and sheltered upbringing. Lorelai dated Christopher Hayden (). After her daughter was born, named ") Lorelai worked her way up over the years, and was eventually promoted to manager. The inn is where she met her best friend, Sookie St. James , a talented chef. For many years, Lorelai had almost no contact with her parents, except for visits during major holidays. It wasn't until she needed to borrow a very large sum of money for Rory's education at the exclusive Chilton Academy that she started seeing her parents regularly again, since a condition of the loan was that Lorelai and Rory join Richard and Emily for dinner every Friday night until the loan was paid off. Lorelai repaid her parents for the loan when a real estate investment that Richard had made in her name at the time of her birth paid off, but Rory soon made her own bargain with her grandparents for Yale tuition. Lorelai continued to attend occasional Friday night dinners, partly as a way to see Rory while she was busy at college. Besides an on-again, off-again relationship with Rory's father, Lorelai's romantic relationships have included Alex Lesman (Billy Burke), an outdoorsy coffee house entrepreneur, Max Medina (Scott Cohen), Rory's English teacher at Chilton, Jason "Digger" Stiles , and Luke Danes , the owner of the local diner and Lorelai's longtime friend. Lorelai remained friends with Christopher and helped him to cope with the birth of his daughter Georgia, nicknamed Gigi (or G.G. a reference to the Gilmore Girls itself), after his girlfriend Sherry Tinsdale (Madchen Amick) deserted them. However, Lorelai broke off contact with him after he attempted to break up her relationship with Luke in Season 5, Ep. 13 "Wedding Bell Blues". She proposed to Luke at the end of Season 5, Ep. 22 "A House is Not a Home", and he accepted at the very beginning of the next episode. They plan to renovate and live in Lorelai's two-story home in Stars Hollow. The relationship with Rory, however, has since been considerably strained, and the two are not speaking very much anymore, even after Rory moved back in with her. Lorelai attended Hartford Community College and earned an Associate Of Arts Degree in business while running the Independence Inn. After the inn burned down, she and Sookie owned and operated The Independence Catering Company in order to fund renovation of the Dragonfly Inn, their long-term dream, which opened to rave reviews on May 6 during Season 4. : Michel: But you wrote first reservation down on a gum wrapper. : Lorelai: So? : Michel: It's embarrassing. This is an historical document. : Sookie: Who cares what she wrote it down on? : Michel: Big Red wrapper. : Sookie: Juicyfruit would have been better? : Michel: Well, I'm going to go out and get a value pack for when things really start getting busy around here. : —Season 4, Ep. 14 "The Incredible Shrinking Lorelais" Lorelai's eating habits are famously unhealthy; she subsists almost exclusively on Pop Tarts and takeout. She and Rory had regular food-and-movie nights, for which they would order enough food for several people and then use the leftovers as food for the rest of the week. A running joke on the series is that food rarely, if ever, makes it all the way to Lorelai's refrigerator. How she maintains her svelte 5'9" frame is a mystery. Lorelai is innately Humor ous and has a witty remark for every situation, often with a Pop Culture reference. Often times, however, her remarks do come at the expense of others, and can confuse people who aren't familiar with her. Most of the characters do not find her amusing. These kinds of interactions with people, among other things, often make Lorelai seem like a case of Arrested Development - a fully grown adult woman who somehow never quite outgrew her adolescence. : Emily: Relax Dean , that's just Lorelai's little sense of humor. (To Lorelai) You're very cruel. : Lorelai: Well, yes, keeps me young. : —Season 2, Ep. 1 "Sadie, Sadie" Another indicator of being trapped in Arrested Development is Lorelai's tendency to isolate herself from friends and family when extremely unpleasant arguments arise. Rather than try to work through the dispute like a mature adult, Lorelai will simply alienate the offender, whether it's her mother or her daughter, until the dispute is more or less forgotten, indicating that she never really learned how to deal with life's little traumas. Lorelai is somewhat insecure when it comes to the relationships between herself, her parents, and Rory. Because her daughter gets along better with her grandparents than she herself ever did, Lorelai often feels that her parents prefer Rory over her. They view Rory, who is considerably more subdued and more classically "feminine" than her mother, as the daughter they should have had, as the proper, dignified young lady Lorelai should have been and wasn't. |
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