The next morning, Betty's father mistook Betty for her mother Ruth, grabbing her breast and suggesting that they "go upstairs." Betty was shocked and frightened, but tried to pretend that everything was all right. At the end of a stressful day, Betty made Don sleep on the floor of the guestroom, but later joined him on the floor to make love. She and Don were careful to present a united front. She and Don left the children with a neighbor and drove to visit her father Betty was visibly impatient with both her father's wife Gloria Massey and her brother William. After seeing this, she called Don at work and told him she didn't want him to come home.īetty turned to Don when she learned that her father Gene suffered a stroke. Betty woke Don - who was sleeping on the couch - that night and explained that she doesn't want things to "be like this." He repeated that he did not do anything and when she asked if he hated her, he insisted that he loved her and didn't want to "lose this." When preparing dinner the next day, an Utz commercial featuring Jimmy Barrett aired on television as Betty watched. The next day, with a glass of wine in hand and disheveled, still not having changed out of the clothing worn during the humiliation of the night before, Betty searched through Don's belongings for any proof of his indiscretions, but found nothing. (" A Night to Remember"), whose husband, Jimmy Barrett, had told her he was having an affair with. Sometime before February 1962, the consultations were stopped.Īfter a dinner party where Betty was embarrassed to have been tricked by Don into behaving like a "demographic" in order to impress a client, she confronted her husband about his adultery, specifically with Bobbie Barrett.
So she told the doctor about her husband's infidelities and how much they upset her. Having discovered that her psychiatrist was giving reports of her sessions to Don, she decided to take revenge by telling her doctor things she wanted her husband to hear, but not to tell him directly. In combination with psychosocial stressors and the exclusion of a neurological cause, it seemed likely that Betty was experiencing Conversion Disorder.
In the spring of 1960, Betty started to see a psychiatrist because of repeated spells of numbness in her hands, which began after her mother's death. Her confidantes have included her neighbor Francine Hanson and Glen Bishop, the young son of divorcee Helen Bishop.īetty and Don lived in Ossining with their 2 children, Sally Draper and Bobby Draper. It was during this time that she met Don Draper, when he was a copywriter for a fur company and she was a model posing for a print ad (as told by Joan in " Lady Lazarus"). She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1952 with an Anthropology degree, and briefly modeled in Italy before moving to Manhattan. Her first kiss was with a Jewish boy named David Rosenberg. Betty mentioned having a German grandmother and that she came from Nordic people. Elizabeth "Betty" Hofstadt was born in 1932 and was the ex-wife of Don Draper.īetty Hofstadt was born in Cape May, New Jersey, where her family summered, and raised in the tony enclave of Lower Merion, a suburb of Philadelphia on the Main Line, which was a very prestigious place to live in Philadelphia.
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