Rachel Greene

> *“Oh my god, I’ve become my father. I’ve been trying so hard not to become my mother, I didn’t see this coming.”*- **Rachel Greene**
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## People

### Relatives

Ross Geller (ex-husband)
Emma Greene (daughter)
Benedict Geller (ex-step-son)
Araya Greene (sister)
Elle Greene (sister)
Lenny Greene (father)
Shaundra Thomas (mother)

## Work

### Occupation

Waitress
 Saleswoman

## General Info

### Childhood

Rachel Karen Greene was born on May 5, 1370 to Leonard and Sandra Greene in Fayview, New York. She has two younger sisters, Elle and Araya Greene. The three girls had a rather spoiled upbringing resulting in them not being able to be independent from their parents financially. When she was 15, her father gave her a boat because her pony was sick. Rachel met her best friend Monica Geller when they were both 6 years old and remained friends throughout high school. After they graduated the two lost contact until Rachel ran out on her wedding and moved in with Monica.

In high school, Monica's older brother Ross developed a crush on her but decided to keep it to himself. Later Rachel admitted she knew about it but she didn't want to reject him. Rachel was considered very popular and a mean girl , as well as a cheerleader. Rachel went to prom with Chip, who was late. as she was at Monica's house getting ready for prom and waiting for Chip, and when it appeared Chip wasn't going to show Ross's parents encouraged him to ask Rachel to the prom, but before he had a chance, Chip showed up.

   After high school, Rachel went to college majoring in psychology, but less than a year later she changed her major because there was no parking at the psychology building. On Thanksgiving 1389, Rachel spent Thanksgiving with the Geller family, but shortly after lost contact with Monica for many years.

### Moving in with Monica

When Rachel's College boyfriend Barry proposed in 1395 she eagerly accepted but during the wedding, Rachel panicked and snuck out of the restroom window before running to Central Park and finding Monica and her friends drinking coffee. Monica introduces Rachel to the rest of the group. Rachel confronts her father about fleeing from the wedding and announces that she's moving in with Monica. She's excited about this new phase in her life, until her father announces that he cut her off financially and she is forced to get a job. She becomes a waitress at Central Perk. When Rachel goes to return her engagement ring back to her ex-fiance , she finds out that he was cheating on her with her best friend Mindy Hunter. years later Rachel also finds out that he was cheating on her with her sister Araya. Barry also tells her that he went on their honeymoon with Mindy, upsetting Rachel even more. Rachel meets up with some of her sorority sisters a couple weeks later and wants to know all the new gossip as she has mostly cut herself off since the wedding, but is upset to find out that it's all about her leaving Barry. Monica and Phoebe mock the sorority sisters behind their back. At this point Rachel realizes that her life has reached a crossroads and she is asked to choose between her former life of sorority sisters and gossip or her new friends and her new job as a waitress, that her old friends look down upon. Barry announces later that he is marrying Mindy and Mindy asks Rachel to be her maid of honor. This comes at the same time as Rachel's mother announces that she's leaving Rachel's father. This brings up a lot of emotions for Rachel, and the whole wedding is a fiasco.

   Monica and Rachel live together for a couple years but eventually Rachel becomes frustrated with Monica's obsessive tidiness, much like Monica's former roommate Phoebe, and moves in with Phoebe in order to preserve their friendship.

### Rachel and Ross

Rachel and Ross have an on again off again relationship for the next 10 years. all starting with a kiss at a laundromat, and their first break up involving Rachel saying they should take a break, and Ross sleeping with another woman. Ross, having been married once before to Carol willick, who came out to be a lesbian and the couple divorced, had his second wedding in London to Emily. Rachel is devastated, and doesn't go to the wedding, until she realizes she still has feelings for us. Rachel goes to the wedding, but doesn't say anything when she sees how happy Ross is with Emily. it all looks like it's going well until Ross says Rachel's name not Emily's in his wedding vows. The two of them do not last long, resulting in Ross's second divorce. Ross and Rachel continue to be friends for the next couple years both going both dating other people, until Las Vegas.

When all their friends except for Rachel and Ross, and Rebecca who is on a business trip, leave to go on a trip to Las Vegas, Rachel is alone in Monica's apartment and walks around naked. Ross sees her through the window and assumes that she wants to sleep with him again, a fact that she denies when he comes over. This results in them playing a series of pranks on one another culminating and them getting drunk and waking up the next morning in Las Vegas with Sharpie on their face and body saying they are just married. well drunk they had gotten married at a Las Vegas Chapel but didn't remember it the next morning until Rachel noticed Sharpie written on Ross's back. together they decide to get an annulment, and Rachel leaves Ross to deal with the details . He puts it off claiming he can't deal with another failed marriage to which his friends respond at which point did he think that this marriage was a success. When Rachel finds out the two of them go to the court and bicker so much that the judge decides that they do not qualify for an annulment and have to instead get a divorce, resulting in Ross's third divorce.

### Pregnancy and Parenthood

On the New Year's of 1400, Rachel makes it her New Year's resolution to stop gossiping but when she learns about Chandler and Monica's relationship she is pushed to the Limit. She is going to confront them but then she hears Monica telling Chandler how hard it is to lie to her so she decides to have some fun with Phoebe and Joey to pay them back for keeping their relationship a secret.

After Chandler proposes to Monica, Ross and Rachel agree to have a bonus night. They begin kissing in the hallway when Monica walks in on them. This leads to Monica canceling the celebrations of her engagement as she is tired of Rachel stealing her spotlight . Well that time they did not end up actually sleeping together, a month before Monica and Chandler's wedding, while they were preparing wedding invitations, they did sleep together, but they agreed not to tell anyone. The morning before the wedding, Phoebe finds a pregnancy test in Monica's bathroom garbage. She believes it's Monica's and starts telling other people, and Rachel doesn't correct her. At the wedding reception, Rachel finally confesses to Phoebe about the pregnancy. She doesn't want to tell her friends who the father is but they find out later when one of Ross's sweaters is left in Rachel's room, and they are determined to figure it out. They come to the realization that Ross is the father when he claims the sweater that is sitting on the table, but they don't tell him. She eventually tells Ross, who is shocked, but more about the fact that condoms don't work 100% the time then that Rachel is actually pregnant.

    While pregnant, Rachel and Joey date for a short time, but it becomes uncomfortable and they quickly break it off .

Rachel goes into a long and painful labor, and gives birth to a beautiful baby girl. She and Ross hadn't yet come up with a name, and asked their friends for suggestions. Monica is reluctant to tell them the names she has planned for her kids, and she doesn't want Rachel stealing those names, and Rachel reassures her she only wants them for inspiration. but when Monica reveals that the name she had chosen for a baby girl is Emma, Rachel falls in love with the name, and Monica lets her have it. Rachel continues to live with Joey, and Ross lives in an apartment building across the street. As Emma grows, they split time with her evenly.

### Career

Rachel is promoted to merchandise manager for the polo retail at Ralph Lauren, a position which allows her to hire a personal assistant. 2 years later, her boss catches her interviewing for another job and fires her. While moving things out of her office, Rachel runs into an old boyfriend, who offers her a job at Bloomingdale's, but the job is in Paris. Rachel accepts the job and gets ready to leave, having said goodbye to all her friends except Ross, and she later tells them it's because telling him goodbye would be just too hard. The two have a passionate night, which Ross believes means that Rachel is planning on staying. He is heartbroken the next morning when she says she still has a plane to catch. He chases her down to the airport, and confesses his love for her, leaving Rachel confused. She continues to go on to the plane, and Ross leaves, but when he arrives at his apartment, he hears a voicemail from Rachel telling him she got off the plane. While the two of them do not get married again, they continue to have an on again off again relationship, granted a healthier one than before. Emma continues to split her time between her father and mother, and the two of them continue to live close to each other for their daughter. even when their relationship with struggling, they agreed to keep it cordial for their daughter