Monica Geller

> *“Welcome to the real world. It sucks. You’re gonna love it."* - **Monica Geller** to Rachel Greene
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## People

### Relatives

Chandler Bing (husband)
Erica Bing (daughter)
Danny Bing (son)

Jake Geller (father)
Judy Olsen (mother)
Ross Geller (brother)

## General Info

### Childhood

Monica Elaine Geller was born on March 8th 1370 in Fayview, New York to Judy Olsen and Jake Geller. She had one sibling, her brother, Ross Geller, who is older by one year. While they were children they bickered a lot, but as they grew up they became quite affectionate towards one another. Both were quite competitive and  Ross often played pranks on Monica which were too much for her. There were memorab

le events such as the Geller Bowl, a football tournament at Thanksgivings. At Gellar Bowl VI Monica broke  Ross’s nose by elbowing him in the face and scoring the winning point, but their father said it didn't count and threw the Geller Cup, the trophy, in the lake because he was sick of the fighting between his two children. Monica also had a difficult relationship with her mother who unconsciously favored  Ross over her.

### High School

In high school, Monica gained a substantial amount of weight peaking at 255 lb. Her best friend was Rachel Greene and the two of them were inseparable throughout their high school years. When they graduated from Fayview High, they lost contact until Rachel moved to New York City years later.

On Thanksgiving 1388,  Ross brought home his college roommate Chandler Bing who would later become Monica's husband. She immediately developed a crush on him but it was not reciprocated. After overhearing Chandler talking to  Ross and referring to her as  Ross’s fat sister, she became determined to lose all her extra weight. She accomplished this goal by Thanksgiving 1389. That Thanksgiving was also quite eventful; when attempting to seduce  Chandler Monica unintentionally dropped a knife and severed one of his toes. Fortunately the doctors were able to reattach it, but any hope Monica had about the two of them vanished.

### Move to New York City

Monica attended culinary college in New York City and after graduating became a chef at Iridium, a high-end restaurant in New York City. She moved into her  grandmother's apartment which she would occupy for the next 14 years. Phoebe Buffay became her new roommate. Ironically enough, Chandler lived in  the apartment across the hall.  Phoebe didn't stay long as she worried their friendship would suffer due to Monica's obsessive tidiness, but she didn't want to say anything and instead tried to move out without telling Monica pretending to still live there but also having her own apartment.  Chandler got a roommate as well, Joey Tribbiani, who joined their friend group along with her brother  Ross and his highschool best friend, Jamie Phaser who lived in the same neighbourhood. The six of them were quite close as well.

### Friends

In 1390,  Ross and his ex-wife, Carol Willick who had gotten divorced earlier that year, found out that they were pregnant. Monica's first and only nephew, Benedict Geller, was born later that year on May 11.
In May of 1395, while the six friends were enjoying coffee at Central Perk, Rachel, Monica's old high school friend, runs in in a wedding dress after leaving her fiancé at the altar. Rachel moves in with Monica and they become best friends once again as Rachel attempts to navigate the real world after being cut off from her dad's money.

In 1396, after losing her job at the Iridium, Monica reluctantly takes a job at Moondance Diner where she has to wear a blonde wig and roller skates.

Rachel decides to move in with Phoebe whose roommate had recently left, leaving Monica alone in her apartment. Despite initially liking having complete control over the cleanliness and everything, even though her friends were constantly visiting, she became lonely quite quickly. One day in the late spring while the seven friends were once again at the coffee shop, Jamie's sister Rebecca Phaser, walked in much to their surprise. Jamie quickly introduced them. Rebecca had also gone to Fayview High, but was a few years younger than Monica and Rachel. Initially, Monica was a bit concerned as she didn't have fond memories of high school, but all her fears dissipated when Rebecca immediately recognized her and recalled a bake sale Monica and Rachel had put on saying that those were the best chocolate chip cookies she had ever tasted. Rebecca told her brother and his friends that she was just in town for a couple months for her job and she was staying at a hotel. Monica immediately offered to let Rebecca stay with her and despite Rebecca's initial protests, she wore her down. Rebecca had only intended to stay a couple months until her company relocated her or she found her own place, but ended up staying for the next 7 years and was immediately accepted into the friend group. Rebecca was different than any other roommate Monica had ever had.

### Monica and Chandler

On May 7th 1399 at  Ross’s second wedding to Julie in London, England after comments from her mother and other relatives about not having a boyfriend as well as being mistaken as  Ross’s mother, Monica turns to Chandler for comfort. Chandler attempted to console her and the two of them quite accidentally spent the night together. The next morning was quite awkward between them and they agreed that sleeping together was a stupid thing to do, yet they ended up continuing to do it while they were in London. When they returned to New York City, they agreed that they wouldn’t sleep together again. This fails and they start a relationship with each other. They kept this relationship a secret from everyone as they were worried that the pressure from their friends would cause the relationship to crumble. Even though the relationship was a secret, Monica was fairly sure Rebecca knew but she didn't tell anyone else and would often cover for them even though Monica and Chandler never asked. The second person to find out was Joey. After a disastrous weekend getaway together, in which Monica and Chandler fought the entire time, but also came to the realization that this was a real adult relationship. It didn't take long for them to make up, and despite each of them having their own cover story for where they had went over the weekend, there were small hints dropped such as Monica mentioning she lost her eyelash curler and the hotel phoning Chandler's apartment to which Joey answered saying an eyelash curler was left in the hotel room and them both seeing a famous person waiting for the elevator, Joey was able to put the evidence together and realized that Monica and Chandler were in a relationship. The couple beg him to keep their secret, to which he agreed reluctantly. The next person to find out was Rachel, who picked up the phone in Monica's apartment and overheard a conversation between the couple determining a time to meet. Phoebe found out next when she was in what would later be  Ross's new apartment of which the window had a clear view into Monica's apartment and she saw Monica and  Chandler kissing.  Phoebe and Rachel decided to mess with their friends to expose their relationship and pay them back for keeping a secret which ends up in a game of chicken where Phoebe and  Chandler pretended to want each other. Things get as far as a kiss and Chandler breaks telling Phoebe, and Rachel and Joey, who were on the other side of the door listening, that he can't have sex with her because he's in love with Monica. Jamie finds out as he is approaching Joey's apartment when this game of chicken was ending. The only person who was still in the dark was Monica's brother.  Ross found out when he was showing his boss his new apartment and looked through the same window that Phoebe had, to see his sister and best friend kissing. He immediately stormed off to confront them. They tell him that they aren't just messing around and that they love each other and  Ross finally accepted it after a couple angry outbursts.

On their anniversary, Monica and  Chandler decide to take a trip to Las Vegas. While gambling at a casino, they make a bet that if Monica can throw a hard eight, they will get married. When she did, they started making plans. They stole a blue sweatshirt from the hotel gift shop so that Monica will have something new, borrowed, and blue and make their way to the wedding chapel. While they are waiting in turn to get married, they see a very drunk  Ross and Rachel stumbling out of the chapel. Monica and  Chandler decided not to get married but to rather move in together. This forced Rebecca to have to find a new place to live which she doesn't mind as she and her boyfriend Matt Evans were already looking at places. Rebecca moved in with Joey for a couple months while things were getting sorted.

The following Thanksgiving, Monica had not told her parents yet about her and  Chandler mostly because her parents didn’t like  Chandler. Things become tense despite  Chandler’s plan was to be very charming and make them like him and then to tell them about dating.  Ross finally admits that the reason that they don't like  Chandler is because Ross falsely accused  Chandler of smoking pot in college when his parents smelled it in his room. Monica tried to convince him to tell their parents the truth which leads to tensions between the siblings and they ended up spilling each other's secrets to their parents including the pot smoking, the relationship,  Ross and Rachel's secret marriage and divorce among other things. In the end, Monica's parents took a liking to  Chandler.

### The Wedding

 Chandler wanted to propose to Monica during a romantic dinner but the evening is ruined when one of Monica's old boyfriends comes to the restaurant sitting next to them. Things became worse when  Chandler said he doesn't want to get married, wanting to throw Monica off his surprise marriage proposal. Monica didn’t very well and when her old boyfriend showed up at the restaurant where she works and declared his love saying that he wanted to marry her, Monica became conflicted. Her confusion ends when Joey spilled the beans about  Chandler’s plans. She decided to surprise  Chandler and propose instead, which he accepted and they were engaged.

The planning for their wedding is a bit of a disaster. Monica's parents spent her wedding fund on a beach house. Monica and  Chandler couldn't take a good engagement photo because  Chandler always ended up looking weird. They couldn’t find a decent minister for the wedding which led to Joey agreeing to become officiated so he can marry them - his first of many. When Monica finds the dress of her dreams, another bride-to-be wants the same dress. During the wedding, it wasn’t much better.  Chandler's parents can't get along.  Chandler panicked when he heard someone refer to him and Monica as the Bings. Phoebe found a pregnancy test in the garbage in Monica's bathroom and assumed it's Monica's and  Chandler overheard and to end it all off Joey was stuck at the set of the movie he was currently shooting and almost missed out on the chance to perform the ceremony. In the end it all worked out and the two of them exchanged vows and kissed.

Monica was very excited when she learned not only of Rachel's pregnancy but also that her brother was the father of her best friend's child. Monica and Phoebe bet on when the baby will be born with Ross and Rachel joining in. When Rachel was in labor Monica and  Chandler realized that they wanted to start trying to have a baby. Rachel gave birth to a baby girl, Monica's first and only niece, but couldn’t come up with a name for her. She asked for suggestions, but Monica was reluctant to tell her the names she had picked out for her own babies, as she didn’t want  Rachel to steal them. Monica finally told [[Rachel Greene}Rachel]] that the names she had picked out were Emma and Daniel. Rachel fell in love with the name Emma and Monica agreed to let her have it for her newborn niece.

### Starting A Family

Monica and  Chandler decided they wanted to have babies but it proved to be more difficult than they expected. When  Chandler accidentally accepted a job in Tulsa, as he fell asleep in a meeting, and Monica accepted her dream job in New York City, the two of them have to balance living in two cities. They manage, but after being forced to stay away at Christmas and New Year's,  Chandler quit and moved back home. After trying for a year, they decided to visit a fertility clinic and learned that their chances of conceiving a child were slim to none. They were heartbroken by this and discussed their options. Surrogacy was ruled out as Monica always wanted to have her own child and so was a sperm donor as she realized she wanted to have  Chandler’s child, not another man’s. In the end, they decide that adoption was the best option. Having decided to adopt a child Monica and  Chandler met with an expectant mother, Erica. They had a bit of a scare about the baby's father - it being either Erica's high school boyfriend or a guy incarcerated after killing his father with a shovel, much to  Chandler’sdismay - it ended up being the high school boyfriend so they really didn't have anything to worry about. They were very excited when Erica went into labor and gave birth to a baby boy, but fear set in when the doctor said it was almost time for the next one. Apparently Erica had not listened much at her doctors appointments and was, in reality, giving birth to twins. After a bit of a freak out Monica and Chandler decided to adopt both babies naming the boy Daniel and the girl Erica, after her birth mother. They chose not to tell their friends about the twins and instead brought home both babies, surprising everyone. It took their friends a moment to notice the second baby and after a few jokes about stealing a second baby, everyone rejoiced.

The newly formed family moved out of their New York City apartment into a residential area as  Chandler and Monica wanted their children to grow up in a neighbourhood with other kids and a big backyard. Despite moving away, they remained close with their friends and their friends' children. Danny and Erica, as well as Jamie's children JJ and Maya,  Ross and Rachel's daughter, Emma, and Rebecca's daughter Morgan all considered each other cousins despite none of them actually being blood-related. The families would often have summer picnics and barbecues with their Uncle Joey and Aunt Phoebe.

### Parenthood

The twins took after their  father in terms of humor; their comments were often laced with sarcasm or bad jokes. Monica was very surprised when both of them fell in love with gymnastics and juggling, a weird combination to be sure. She was very supportive when her children decided they wanted to make their own circus group which they called Bing-a-ling-ling Circus and would be for-hire clowns for children's birthday parties and other events. Monica was very relieved when neither of her children struggled with obesity growing up, both of them remaining quite active in gymnastics and other sports.

Monica and  Chandler’sonly grandchild was Lily Bing. Erica married a nice young guy, Noah Cyprus, a long time friend and fellow performer, but they did not have children. Her twin brother Danny, who lived with his sister and her boyfriend and later husband, for many years, one day opened his door to see a one-year-old baby sitting in a stroller holding a stuffie and a letter. Apparently his ex-girlfriend, Janie, had been pregnant and had given birth without telling him, but was no longer able to care for the baby. Danny immediately accepted the responsibility of looking after his daughter. Lily grew up with three parents Danny,  Erica and Noah. Danny and Lily moved out when she was about seven as the four of them in one apartment was quite cramped. Monica and  Chandler played a big role in their granddaughter's life helping their son who was not prepared for parenthood at all to raise the young girl.