In lieu of couples counseling or acknowledging his own insecurity, the Logans’ patriarch Stephen (originally Robert Pine) put daughter Brooke and the rest of his family in rear-view rather than deal with his suspicion that wife Beth had always preferred her old flame, the rich and famous Eric Forrester.
Stephen was, of course, right about Beth’s lingering feelings for Eric. But the exes nonetheless managed to start over — it probably didn’t hurt that suddenly Stephen looked a lot like Bobby Ewing from Dallas — just in time for Alzheimer’s to blur her memories of both men.
Stephen’s namesake firstborn — Storm to his friends and enemies alike — was a troubled sort who often found himself saying, “But… but I can explain.” He never could, though, not really. And after accidentally shooting kid sister Katie, he killed himself to provide her with a heart for transplanting.
Stephen and Beth’s oldest daughter Brooke is practically the living embodiment of that classic line from Working Girl: “I have a head for business and a bod for sin.” She’s famous for inventing a wrinkle-free fabric and infamous for testing it on a whole lotta bedding.
Brooke’s younger sister Donna is the sort of bombshell whose mere presence in a room can make men’s heads explode. But the only fellow she’s ever really loved was, ironically, Mom’s favorite — and Brooke’s first husband — her honey bear, Eric.
Oh, considering her own track record, Brooke knew better than to ever accuse the youngest Logan sibling Katie of man-stealing. But the baby of the family did have a habit of falling for the same guys as her sisters. Guess that’s bound to happen in a town as small as L.A.!
More often than she’d like, Brooke has found herself facing the judgment of her and Eric’s kids, Bridget, with whose husband she had an affair, and Rick, who’d stop at just about nothing to keep Mom from fulfilling her “destiny” of being with her onetime stepson, Ridge.
The result of Brooke’s fling with son-in-law Deacon Sharpe was the birth of Hope (here Kim Matula), with whose boyfriend Mom accidentally had sex. Also pictured is the boyfriend in question, Oliver Jones, doing his damnedest to make himself invisible before anyone can ask how you can “accidentally” have sex.
For a while there, Brooke had good reason to ask son RJ that question, as she couldn’t be sure whether the name on his birth certificate should be Ridge’s… or that of his half brother, Nick Marone, with whom she, um, consoled herself during a hot minute when Ridge was “dead.”
Brooke did eventually have a son with Nick — albeit accidentally. When he and wife Taylor Forrester endeavored to get pregnant, the egg that they used to conceive the long-missing Jack turned out to be… Mm-hmm. That of her longtime rival. As you can see, though, Taylor took the news completely in stride.
Not until Marcus Walton was a grown man did he get acquainted with his biological parents, Donna and her high-school sweetheart, Justin Barber. On the plus side, Marcus got to bear witness to his folks’ wedding. On the minus side, the ceremony lasted about as long as the marriage.
Throughout her pregnancy, Brooke’s sometime stepdaughter Amber Moore didn’t know whether she was carrying Liam, Marcus or Oliver’s child. But since the result of that pregnancy — baby Rosie — made it into this family album, even if your memory’s a little foggy, you can probably deduce that the infant was Marcus’, which makes her Donna’s granddaughter.
If only he took after his mom! But no, though Will Spencer is still a whippersnapper, it’s already been made clear that he takes more after scheming dad Bill than sensible mom Katie. Take, for example, the sneaky way that he attempted to matchmake for his parents. Although if he wanted to connive us up a fancy snack like that, we wouldn’t say no.
Like mom Hope (now Annika Noelle), baby Beth quickly proved to be a magnet for drama. No sooner was Hope’s little girl with Liam Spencer born than she was kidnapped and sold to her Aunt Steffy. Were it not for the infant’s adopted brother, Douglas Forrester, Beth might be calling Steffy Mama today!
“Aww, what an incredibly loving gesture,” we thought when Maya Avant’s sister Nicole agreed to carry a baby for her and then-husband Rick. But things quickly went from “aww” to “awkward” when Zende Forrester’s then-wife had more trouble giving up Lizzy than she or her sibling anticipated. And after all that squabbling, where is Brooke’s granddaughter now? In storyline Siberia along with Rick, Maya and Nicole!
Ripping a page from mom Brooke’s playbook, Bridget couldn’t be sure whether she was carrying the child of her husband/former stepfather, Nick, or his stepfather, younger man Owen Knight, until out popped lil’ Logan with six-pack abs that made him the envy of the hospital’s nursery.
Although aiding and abetting the theft of baby Beth made Flo Fulton persona non grata among the Logans, she got a “Get Out of Hot Water Free” card first by turning out to be Storm’s surprise daughter with long-ago lover Shauna, then by donating a kidney to Katie (who always seemed to be in need of one organ or another!).
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