Gilmore Girls: The

Ellie Katz

Pregnant at 16. Homeless at 17. Running her own inn at 34. Lorelai Gilmore has gone through it all. With a child at age 16, she ran away from her toxic household and started a job as a maid in the Independence Inn. Eighteen years later, Lorelai and her best friend buy their own inn, and her daughter starts her first semester at Yale.

Throughout Gilmore Girls, we watch both Lorelai and Rory face challenges, embrace changes, grow as people, and fall in love.

“I’m fine. I’m just being dramatic. It's what I do.” Lorelai Gilmore, the main character of her story, brings a new definition to dramatic.

She makes rash decisions, does what she wants, and is nowhere near your

Pregnant at 16. Homeless at 17

Typical Mother

Lorelai’s daughter, Rory, whose name is also Lorelai, was named after her mother, by her mother because if men can name their children after themselves, why can’t women?

Gilmore Girls is a seven season show that follows Lorelai’s and Rory’s lives starting in Rory’s last year of high school.

Rory gets accepted into a prestigious private school called Chilton, but it’s expensive and Lorelai's

An incredible show job as a manager of an inn doesn't nearly make her enough money to pay the tuition. For the sake of her daughter, Lorelai is forced to return to the parents she ran away from 18 years ago and ask for money to support Rory. Her parents happily agree to pay for their granddaughter's education, under the condition that Lorelai and Rory come to their house every Friday for

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Lorelai agrees to the condition, but as more Fridays pass, she is reminded why she left in the first place. Her parents are not happy with her decision to not get married when she

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