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Elizabeth "Betty" Francis (formerly Draper)
Elizabeth "Betty" Francis (née Hofstadt, formerly Draper; January Jones) is the ex-wife of Don Draper (who affectionately called her "Bets" or on occasion "Birdy") and mother of their three children, Sally, Bobby and Gene. She is a classic early '60s homemaker, with the added intrigue of a past as a professional model. She majored in Anthropology at Bryn Mawr and speaks Italian. Betty is concerned with appearances and in the first season sees a psychiatrist for her nerves. She had recently lost her mother, who also valued looks and appearances highly and encouraged Betty to stay slim so that she could attract a husband. Just as Don is, on the surface, the picture-perfect model of a successful early '60s businessman, Betty appears to be the model wife, but like her husband she sometimes expresses feelings of unfulfillment and dissatisfaction with her "perfect life", and it is implied by her sometimes strained relations with her children that she never wanted to be a mother. She is often lonely, as Don spends most of his days and many nights working, and smokes constantly, presumably as a means to calm her anxiety. Although Don sees her as an excellent, caring mother—something he lacked in his own life—he often neglects to treat her as an equal adult companion. She knows nothing of her husband's true past, and wishes he were less remote and more involved in life at home. At the end of the first season, having deduced that her husband receives reports from her psychotherapist, she tells her psychotherapist that she has known for some time that her husband has affairs. By the second season, she appears to have reached an accommodation with Don, and their relationship appears to be less distant. However, at the end of the second season's eighth episode, Betty - fed up with Don's humiliation of her in public and private - calls her husband at work and forbids him from coming home. In the Season 2 finale, Betty finds out she is pregnant, the result of a brief period of reconciliation with Don. Still conflicted over the state of her marriage, she goes alone to Manhattan one evening and has sex with an anonymous man in a bar. She then invites Don to return home. In Season 3, Betty has her third child, who she names Gene after her father, who is living with the Draper's during her pregnancy but dies shortly before Gene is born. She also grows closer to Henry Francis, but their affair is not consummated. Later, Betty discovers Don's true identity and confronts him, forcing him to break down and reveal his past. A few weeks later, a series of events, including the discovery of Don's identity, Henry Francis' proclamation of love, and the assassinations of John Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald prompt Betty into a revelation that she no longer loves or trusts Don. By the beginning of Season 4, she has married Henry Francis, though they and the children continue to live in the house on Bullet Park Road. At the end of that season, however, Betty and Henry decide to move their family to nearby Rye.
Elizabeth "Betty" Francis (formerly Draper)
Elizabeth "Betty" Francis (née Hofstadt, formerly Draper; January Jones) is the ex-wife of Don Draper (who affectionately called her "Bets" or on occasion "Birdy") and mother of their three children, Sally, Bobby and Gene. She is a classic early '60s homemaker, with the added intrigue of a past as a professional model. She majored in Anthropology at Bryn Mawr and speaks Italian. Betty is concerned with appearances and in the first season sees a psychiatrist for her nerves. She had recently lost her mother, who also valued looks and appearances highly and encouraged Betty to stay slim so that she could attract a husband. Just as Don is, on the surface, the picture-perfect model of a successful early '60s businessman, Betty appears to be the model wife, but like her husband she sometimes expresses feelings of unfulfillment and dissatisfaction with her "perfect life", and it is implied by her sometimes strained relations with her children that she never wanted to be a mother. She is often lonely, as Don spends most of his days and many nights working, and smokes constantly, presumably as a means to calm her anxiety. Although Don sees her as an excellent, caring mother—something he lacked in his own life—he often neglects to treat her as an equal adult companion. She knows nothing of her husband's true past, and wishes he were less remote and more involved in life at home. At the end of the first season, having deduced that her husband receives reports from her psychotherapist, she tells her psychotherapist that she has known for some time that her husband has affairs. By the second season, she appears to have reached an accommodation with Don, and their relationship appears to be less distant. However, at the end of the second season's eighth episode, Betty - fed up with Don's humiliation of her in public and private - calls her husband at work and forbids him from coming home. In the Season 2 finale, Betty finds out she is pregnant, the result of a brief period of reconciliation with Don. Still conflicted over the state of her marriage, she goes alone to Manhattan one evening and has sex with an anonymous man in a bar. She then invites Don to return home. In Season 3, Betty has her third child, who she names Gene after her father, who is living with the Draper's during her pregnancy but dies shortly before Gene is born. She also grows closer to Henry Francis, but their affair is not consummated. Later, Betty discovers Don's true identity and confronts him, forcing him to break down and reveal his past. A few weeks later, a series of events, including the discovery of Don's identity, Henry Francis' proclamation of love, and the assassinations of John Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald prompt Betty into a revelation that she no longer loves or trusts Don. By the beginning of Season 4, she has married Henry Francis, though they and the children continue to live in the house on Bullet Park Road. At the end of that season, however, Betty and Henry decide to move their family to nearby Rye.