In , Gaby gave up her lavish life in NYC to move to the suburbs of Fairview and adjust to a quieter, more settled lifestyle with Carlos. During the first three years of marriage, Carlos was always away on business trips, leaving Gaby to become bored, lonely and unhappy, resulting in her having an affair with her teenage gardener, and high-school student, John Rowland.
Eventually the sense of friendship and family overwhelmed her, and Gabrielle found her happiness on Wisteria Lane , raising a family with the love of her life. She grew up in a very poor home with her beloved father, mother and siblings. They all lived under a small shack and struggled to make ends meet. Gaby never liked to think about this and it developed her into a self-hating Mexican.
Whenever she would visit him, her mother would tell her that her father didn't want to see them sad - he only wanted to see them happy - so every time they visited him in the hospital, the whole family would smile for him. Gaby was with him when he died. However, she thought he was merely sleeping and so she carried on smiling all night.
They were happy, but when Gaby was fifteen, he came into her bedroom and sexually assaulted her. This led her mother to believe she seduced him. With that, Gabrielle left home at the age of fifteen to New York where she met a photographer that she seduced. She soon became a supermodel who was very well-paid, appearing on magazine covers such as Vogue.. All of these people, and her agents and photographers, hated Gabrielle but she got away with it due to her success.
She attracted the attention of Carlos Solis in one of her runway shows and on their third date, he proposed to her. Gaby was about to be fired but decided to move to the suburbs with her new husband.
