Details You Didn't Know About Alexis Bledel

Kimberly Alexis Bledel, professionally known as Alexis Bledel, is most known for her role as Rory Gilmore in the early 2000s series Gilmore Girls. Bledel and Lauren Graham, who played her mother Lorelai Gilmore, created a nostalgia-driven show about a unique and comforting mother-daughter relationship. The series ran for seven consecutive seasons, and due to its success and fan demand for closure for the popular characters, there was a four-part special titled Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life nine years after the final season aired. 

Though Gilmore Girls was Bledel's breakout role, she had many amazing roles in between seasons, including the film adaption of the Natalie Babbitt novel Tuck Everlasting in 2002, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants in 2005, and Post Grad in 2009. But her success didn't stick to just the early '00s. She also starred in the popular dystopian drama series titled The Handmaid's Tale in 2017. 

Fans of Gilmore Girls may think they know everything about real-life Rory, but there's definitely more to discover. Keep scrolling after the jump to learn more about TV's girl-next-door. 

Alexis Bledel and husband Vincent Kartheiser may be one of the most private couples in Hollywood, and they're perfectly fine with that. According to E! News, the two met on the set of Mad Men in 2012 when Bledel guest-starred as a "mentally unstable woman and wife of a businessman who seduces Kartheiser's seedy and equally married ad man character Pete Campbell."

The couple didn't date until after Season 5 ended, and later that year, they debuted their relationship on the red carpet of the Macallan Masters of Photography collection opening in New York. Both actors are extremely private, which Kartheiser spoke about in an interview with Vulture in 2014. 

"It's something I realized about the most important things in my life," he said. "If I share them with the world and I open that door to their fuming anger that they need to get out or their adoration that they want to flaunt, it lessens it. It cheapens it; it weakens it. And it's magical, love, and all of that is... profoundly spiritual, and it just doesn't feel right." The couple revealed they were engaged in March 2013 and married in June 2014. 

Of course, after watching a show over for seven years, you eventually develop a liking to your favorite characters, and actors like Alexis Bledel are no different. During an 2016 interview on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the sitcom star shared her favorite characters of the feel-good show. 

"I think that Caesar is awesome, he works at Luke's. I think he kinds of runs the place. If [Luke] has to go be with Lorelai, he's like, 'I got it.' He's underrated, he's amazing," the actress gushed. "Babette and Miss Patty. They were in All In The Family together. And every time they would come to set... they would get together and sing show tunes and it was such a raucous day on set every day they were there so I have to appreciate them."

The TV star added, "And Kirk as well," which practically goes without saying. Solid choices, Bledel, solid choices!

Although many fans were excited for a true ending and closing chapters to Gilmore Girls, main character Alexis Bledel wasn't a fan of her character's ultimate ending. *Spoiler alert.* In case you didn't get to see the special four-part finale of the popular sitcom, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, Bledel's characters Rory Gilmore ended up single and pregnant, similar to her mother Lorelai Gilmore. The distinct difference are the characters' ages at pregnancy — Lorelai having a scandalous teen pregnancy and Rory being pregnant in her early 30s.

According to the Deadline's 2017 Emmy Contender Panel (per Cheat Sheet), Bledel didn't see her character ending this way. "It certainly wasn't the ending I was expecting," she said. "I told [show creator] Amy [Sherman-Palladino] that I hoped Rory would end on a high note. After all her hard work, I wanted to see her succeed and be thriving. So it was a hard thing for me to digest."

Even though she wasn't happy with the TV plot, Bledel's real life mirrored her character's in a big way: The actress welcomed her first child — a son — in 2015.