Gabrielle Solis: a former model who married her husband Carlos for money, but found satisfaction with her teenagegardener John Rowland. She questions her relationship with Carlos, commenting once that she loved him, and all her teenage fantasies had been fulfilled, yet she still wasn't happy. She absolutely despises Carlos' mother Juanita. Towards the end of season one, Gabrielle learned that she was pregnant, as a result of her husband replacing her birth control pills with sugar pills. She almost left Carlos after finding out the truth about her birth control pills, but she eventually decided to blackmail him into taking complete care of the baby in return for her testimony. It was recently found out that she is Roman Catholic and refuses to divorce Carlos because of her faith. She lost the baby after being attacked when her house was broken into. Believing Gabrielle to be in pain from her loss, Carlos sent a former inmate, by the name of Hector Ramos, to help her deal with it. Through Hector, Gabrielle began to realize that she was more deeply affected by the loss of the baby than she would at first admit. Her most recent rival is Sister Mary Bernard, a pretty Catholic nun who has apparently caused her husband to turn over a new leaf, and who Gabrielle fears will eventually persuade Carlos to end the marriage. When Gabrielle heard that the Sister's group was short of the money it needed to send Sister Mary to Botswana as part of a relief effort, Gabrielle personally donated the money, just to ensure that Sister Mary would be out of the way (at least for a while). Gabrielle also lied to the doctors on the forms for Carlos' physical evaluation, so that he would be forced to stay home with her. She also invoked the jealousy of Lynette when she planted a supposedly "friendly" kiss on Tom at a party. Lynette got her revenge by making out with Carlos right in front of Gabrielle.
