#kellytaylor

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[bea994]

I just love them

[want-to-go-to-my-bed]

Team Kelly & Dylan 🥰

[pernilleoe]

A little cooling down #doodle with an homage to #kellytaylor in the #BeverlyHills90210 intro. #girlsinanimation #drawing #fanart @jenniegarth

[christineelise]

In fairness to me - why was I some shocking blonde with roots??? Look at Tori over there? Same. Exact. Blonde. Same. Exact. Roots. I even feel like we are seeing Kelly realize the same thing. #90210 #bh90210 #beverlyhills90210 #emilyvalentine #donnamartin #kellytaylor #andreazuckerman

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[bea994]

❤️

[tvctionary]

Whatever Happened to Kelly Taylor

In faraway Beverly Hills, the spoiled, gorgeous teenager Kelly Taylor seemed to have everything, living every girl’s dream. Her daily routine only involved shopping, partying, having a good time with boys, while at the same time popping diet pills, undergoing plastic surgery, and attempting a modeling career. Her estranged father, the pains of living with her substance-abusing mother, and her losing her virginity upon being date raped brought her to an early maturity, helping her set more far-reaching goals for the future. And so, after school she decided that she wanted to major in Psychology. Life, however, is not a bed of roses. Shortly after reaching adulthood, she embarked on her own (and tougher) personal odyssey, always impeccably dressed and groomed. Over the next six years or so, Kelly got burned in a fire, joined a cult, developed a cocaine addiction, went to rehab, lived a remake of Single White Female with a “friend” she met there, found out she had a sister of the same age in Mexico (her father led a double life), got shot, had a short-term memory loss, was sexually harassed by her boss, got pregnant, had a miscarriage, found out that it would be difficult for her to have children, got raped, shot and killed her rapist (and then the charges were dropped because she acted in self-defense). In the series finale, in 2000, we see her flirting with the love of her life, Dylan McKay, at the wedding of her best friend Donna Martin to her stepbrother David Silver, and everything just seems perfect. After all these trials and tribulations, the time has come for a perfect happy ending, right? Well, no. Happy endings are a myth, even for high-rated shows. In 2007, the CW Television Network announced the launching of the spin-off TV series 90210. In the new series, a family of four moves from Kansas to Beverly Hills, where the father of the family is to serve as the new principal of the legendary West Beverly Hills High School. The school staff includes the thirty-something Kelly, now working as guidance counselor, who makes frequent guest appearances (one of the tricks used by the series’ producers to attract viewers of the former series was to invite members of the original cast). Kelly now is a disillusioned single mother, with no friends, no social life, and no boyfriend. She leads a rather pathetic existence in a well-appointed house, living with her four-year-old son and her teenage manic-depressive sister, and she often tries to reach the absentee Dylan on the phone to discuss custody matters. Exhausted and sad, she doesn’t seem to remember her once adventurous and glamorous life. Once in a while, she may go on a disappointing date with some attractive coworker or arrange to go out for a drink in a nearby bar with old friends. Still, she will never complain that she was demoted to a guest star because she knows that this could easily happen to anyone. She knows that the expression “taken from life” is a perfect description of her situation.