Phoebe Buffay

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## People

### Relatives

Mike Hannigan (husband)
Ursula Buffay (twin sister)
Lille Buffay (mother)
Frank Buffay (father)
Lesley Shay (biological daughter)
Frank Shay (biological son)
Candy Shay (biological daughter)

## Work

### Occupation

Masseuse
 Musician

## General Info

### Languages

English
 French

### Childhood

Phoebe Buffay along with her older twin sister Ursula are born February 16th 1366 to Lilly and Frank Buffay. Frank then abandoned Lilly and the twins and after Lily remarried, the children's stepfather went to prison. Phoebe had a rough childhood and Lilly committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning when putting her head in an oven. This left the girls orphans and homeless on the streets of New York City at the age of 14. Phoebe survived by rummaging through garbage and mugging unsuspecting young people on the street. At 18 she lived in a burnt out Buick LeSabre. She left school at 14 not graduating high school but learned French behind a dumpster with a small group of other homeless people. When she was 14 she mugged and unsuspecting Ross but didn't realize it until years later after the two had become friends. On her 16th birthday she was chased around a tire yard by an escaped mental patient who in his own words wanted to kill her or whatever. She had been arrested for petty theft a couple of times as a minor but was able to turn her life around. One of the incidents that was altered in her arrest was when She stabbed a cop but according to her he stabbed her first. She learned how to box at the YMCA when some of the guys weren't being Christian enough. Phoebe met and moved in with Monica which began their friendship. In 1394, Phoebe was not able to take Monica's obsessive tidiness and started to secretly move out; she moved her furniture piece by piece to her grandmother's apartment and lived part-time in each place until she was able to tell Monica she moved out.

### Meeting Friends

Among being friends with Monica she is also friends with Monica's neighbors Chandler and Joey as well as her brother Ross and his best friend Jamie. The six of them spend a lot of time together. Rachel Green joins the group after leaving her fiancé at the altar and moving in with Monica.

After her grandmother passes away Phoebe asks Rachel to move in with her and she happily agrees also needing a bit of a break from Monica's obsessive tidiness. Rebecca Phaser, Jamie's sister, moves in with Monica and joins their friend group.

At Monica and Chandler's wedding Phoebe discovers a pregnancy test in the garbage at Monica's apartment. She believes Monica is pregnant and starts telling everyone, which Chandler overhears. Rachel eventually admits she is the one that is pregnant and begs Phoebe to keep it a secret. to

protect Rachel Phoebe claims she's the one that's pregnant and said that she had said that Monica was pregnant because she wasn't ready to tell anyone. It was confusing for everyone. wanting to be there for his friend Joey proposes to Phoebe who then agrees but becomes angry when Joey proposes to Rachel once he finds out she is the one that's actually pregnant.

### Phoebe and Ursula

Phoebe and Ursula lose contact shortly after becoming homeless and don't talk to each other until they are both in their late twenties . the two of them have a very tense relationship with Ursula selling Phoebe's birth certificate trying to make a little extra cash and not telling Phoebe about the suicide note that their mother had left. The two are physically identical yet polar opposites in every other way. Ursula tends to be much more crude and insensitive and treats people with great disdain whereas Phoebe has a sweet nature but is often considered quite an oddball. She often plays guitar at Central Perk. having experienced and anything but normal childhood she is still sometimes a child at heart believing Santa Claus existed among other things. She often shocks people with frankness catching them off guard.

Phoebe's musical talent is often different from conventional music. She self-describes it as acoustic folksy Stuff. some of her songs include “The

Double-Double-Double Jointed Boy”, “Bisexual”, “Sue Sue Suicide”, ‘You Suck”, “Shut Up And Go Home”, “Sticky Shoes”, “Saltwater Taffy Man”, and her most famous, “Smelly Cat”.

Phoebe is a vegetarian and doesn't eat “food with a face” and is against wearing fur coats. she becomes upset one Christmas when she notices trees being cut down and sold as Christmas trees.

### The Triplets

Phoebe agrees to be a surrogate for a friend and has embryos implanted which results in her giving birth to triplets in 1400. The triplets Frank,  Lesley and Candy. Phoebe keeps in contact with the mother and is occasionally allowed to babysit the children. She is even given the naming rights of one of them who she chooses to name Chandler being under the assumption that the baby is a boy. When it's revealed that the third triplet is another girl, the name is still kept but the baby eventually goes by the name Candy instead.

Phoebe meets her birth father while at her grandmother's funeral. Frank Buffay is unaware of who she is and Phoebe contacts him pretending to be a lawyer and learns that he has no idea that her mother Lilly had died or what had happened to her and her twin sister. Phoebe drops the act and reveals that she is his daughter and she resents him for leaving. Frank accepts what he did is wrong and asks for a chance to be in her life. It is awkward and they keep in contact for a little bit but then it stops.