Character Background: Cynthia Rivers

Cynthia Rivers was born on May 5^th, 1987 at Cidars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. As the daughter of Thomas and Mary Rivers, the wealthy owners of the Rivers Resort, Cynthia was given everything she wanted. Cynthia went to Brentwood Private School with her older sister, Jane, but the constant comparison between the two caused Cynthia to seek out a career different from the business plan her sister had chosen.

            After graduating from high school, Cynthia took a year off, which angered her parents. During this year Cynthia became a socialite, but unlike her fellow heiresses, Cynthia was able to avoid the tabloids and drama. Realizing how good she was at avoiding drama and turning a bad situation into a good one, Cynthia decided to go into public relations. She excelled in all her classes at the University of Southern California and proved that she had what it takes to be in public relations when she was caught having sex in public and turned it into an artistic protest.

            Cynthia had everything figured out and made sure to let people know that she was more than just a pretty face. But she had one problem – Cynthia was prone to fall in love too quickly. A romantic at heart, Cynthia believed that every man she was with, was her true love and would do anything for that man. This caused her much heartbreak. Cynthia believed that after graduating from USC her boyfriend would propose, instead he broke up with her, leading her to take a PR job in Boston. While at an event in Boston, Cynthia met Carl, who had a promising career in basketball. She immediately fell for his charm and decided she would be his PR manager, eventually having an intimate relationship with him. When Carl’s career took a hit, she found herself unable to do anything to help him. Believing that Carl was her true love she dropped all her clients and spent all her time trying to help Carl.

Cynthia was fired for dropping all her clients and concentrating all her time on someone who did not need PR. Her parents, after finding out she was fired stopped providing economic assistance, in an attempt to teach her a lesson. As a big F-U to her parents, Cynthia took a job at Hooters where she knows her parents hate because that’s where her father was beaten up by her mother’s jealous old boyfriend. But working at Hooters proved beneficial because it enabled her to be available for Carl whenever he called her out on a “date.”