Skyler Benson

## **Family**

Skyler Benson is the daughter of an estranged father and Chloe Benson. Her parents are no longer together and her father walked out on her when she was a kid. Skyler had her daughter Brittany when she was fifteen and she does her best to be a good mother, which can be hard since Brittany is a difficult child. Thankfully, Skyler has an amazing mother to help her out. Skyler is also lucky in the friend department, having a platonic friendship with Spencer and Tracey. It’s obvious that Skyler's very close with Spencer and Tracey, but, in her junior year of high school, Skyler, along with Tracey and Spencer, were friends with their classmate and fellow teen mom, Alyssa Dame. After her friends had graduated a year earlier, Alyssa was in need of other people to hang out with at school, so she started hanging around with Spencer, Skyler, and Tracey. Alyssa’s daughter attended Carly’s second birthday party and the year before, before their parents had become friends, Carly was at Sage’s birthday celebration at the park. Alyssa was in the same grade as Spencer and Skyler, and a grade above Tracey.

## **Personality/Hobbies/Behaviour.**

When we first met Skyler, it introduced us to an angry and defiant teenage girl with a negative attitude. Over the course of her pregnancy, we see Skyler change. She becomes friendly and develops a more positive outlook and attitude. She becomes lighter and happier. Skyler has a short fuse, especially when she’s not getting her way with her daughter, but she has a good heart and tries her best. When given help and reassurance, she puts more effort into everything she does and proves to herself just how capable she is. Without support from her mother and friends, Skyler struggles, becomes insecure about her own abilities, and simply accepts things won’t get better. So, she definitely depends on others to keep her afloat.

## **Ethnicity/Appearance/Style**

Skyler is half-Caucasian and half-Korean. She has black hair and brown eyes. She is in the "teenager" life stage with the new teen height preset.

## **Pregnant in high school**

Skyler was introduced at the end of the pilot episode; she was 15 years old. She was seen sneaking out of the house in the middle of the night and didn't return home until early morning, and it wasn't shown what she was doing. When she came home her mother was waiting for her. It turned out Skyler had snuck out while she was grounded. She told her mother to stay out of her business.

On the tenth of May 1999, Skyler decided to get a pregnancy test at planned parenthood. She crossed paths with Spencer and Tracey in the waiting room and when Spencer said he recongized her from school, Skyler denied it was her. Tracey later stated that Skyler was probably just embarrased to be at planned parenthood. In the second epsiode, we also learned that Skyler's father had left when Skyler was 12 and it was the reason for Skyler's downspirail. Skyler told her mother to never talked about him again. Chloe confronted Skyer for skipping school demanding to know where she was. Skyler told her to mind her own buisness and Chloe informed her a meeting with Skyler's prinicpal had been set up. On Friday, the 14th of May, Skyler received a phone-call from planned parenthood. She was told the results of her pregnancy test were negative but it was recommend she take a second test in a few weeks, an appointment for that was sheduled for the third of June.

Chloe sat down with Skyler's principal on the 17th of May. She was informed that Skyler was failing all of her classes because she was skipping them. The good news was, Skyler could still make it up if she attended all of her classes and turned in all of her assighments including make-up work, otherwise she would have to go to summer school in order to move on to the eleventh grade in the fall. Skyler didn't care but Chloe threatned to follow her to class if she didn't obey.