Addison Montgomery
Name: Addison Adrienne Forbes Montgomery Nickname(s): Addie, Red, Satan Birthday: October 13th Zodiac Sign: Libra Gender: Cis-Female Pronouns: She/Her  Height: 5Ⲡ10ⳠTattoos: None Piercings: Ears Languages: English, French Relationship Status: Dating Orientation: Demisexual Occupation: Chief of OB/GYN & Neonatal Surgery Faceclaim: Kate Walsh
HEADCANONS
Sheâs dyed her hair blonde twice in her life
She has a cat named Milo who she adopted from one of her dying patients
She works a lot and is barely home
Sheâs currently dating but no one has compared to her late husband, Jake
BIOGRAPHY
tw: child abuse, suicide, sexual assault
Past
Addison was born in Connecticut in 1967 into a wealthy background with her brother Archer, mother, Bizzy and father, "The Captain", a doctor who teaches medicine at Yale where Addison would sit and watch as a child. She grew up as a typical kid with wealthy parents which basically means tons of nannies, parents who werenât around and children who should be âseen and not heardâ. She kept that mantra all the way through life never telling her parents, or anyone really, what was going on with her.
Addison clashed with her mother a lot growing up. She wanted to rough house and play with the boys. Her mother wanted her to take debutante classes and behave like a lady and would scold her if her clothes got messy or if she spoke out of term. It started to take a toll of the young girl. When she was seven, she saw her chance to escape from her horrible life while out riding bikes with her brother. She turned her bike into the street and nearly got ran over. A car hit the front of her bike causing her tire to come off, flipping Addison over the handlebars and scraping her face, but Archer picked her up, told her it was going to be okay, and carried her the half a mile walk back home. He knew the truth but told their parents that she fell off her bike in the vineyard while going downhill because her tire came off. He covered for her and they never spoke of the moment again. However, this is how Addison has always seen her brother, as the big brother who protected her and carried her home.
From the early age of eight, Addison was mixing her father's drinks... she even decided to give it a taste one day and thought it was absolutely disgusting. She wouldnât understand why anyone drank until much later in life. When she was ten, Addison had to deny her father's affair with his secretary, waiting for the Captain while he was having sex in his office and then pretending she had fun getting ice-cream with her father. Her father also had affairs with (among others) three maids, four of Addison's nannies, Jolene her French tutor, and the chef. She only discovered in adulthood that it was her mother who had cheated first, with a woman, but chose to stay married because she already had a family. The Captain knew and stayed with her, but had affairs with other women.
At some point in her childhood, the Captain would take Addison out on the boat and teach her how to sail. The young girl used to love going out on the water with her father because it was the only time either one of her parents seemed to care about her. That all started to change when the Captain started inviting his friends out on the boat with them. One of his friends took interest in the young girl and not at all in a good way. He started touching the young girl in inappropriate ways. He told her that her parents wouldnât believe her if she tried to tell because he was a highly respected man in their community and she believed him. The abuse went on for two years until he moved away. It was the summer before high school and the redhead had to do something to make her feel less of the person sheâd become so she dyed her hair.
Addison kept to herself throughout high school. Her ugly blonde dye-job didnât help the fact that she was a tall, lanky, awkward band geek with braces and a lisp. No one was really interested in her and she ended up going to prom with this nerd who forced her to talk about Star Wars all night. Luckily, for the redhead, by time she college came around, her dye job had grown out and she finally bloomed. Addison went on to attend medical school at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons where she met her future ex-husband, Derek Shepherd, her future ex-lover, Mark Sloan and life-long friends, Sam and Naomi Bennett. The young girl vowed never to return home again and she hadnât for a long time all the way up until her motherâs suicide.
Present
Archer went on to become a world-class neurologist and successful author whereas Addison went on to become a double-board certified world-class neonatal surgeon and OB/GYN with sub-specialties in maternal and fetal medicine and medical genetics. She is entitled to a twenty five million dollar trust fund and owns four properties: a New York brownstone, a house in The Hamptonâs, a beach house in Santa Monica and a beach house on West Mercer Island right outside the city of Seattle where she now resides.
After the loss of her mother, Addison decided that she wanted an actual family who would love her unconditionally. That's how she ended up adopting her first child, Henry. A few months after finalizing his adoption, she married her late husband, Jake. They were an extremely happy family with both parents taking time off from their busy schedule to raise their son. They got him into all kinds of sports, traveled all the time and nothing could've been better for the three. That is until Jake got sick. He passed when Henry was only seven years old. They stayed in Santa Monica for a little less than three months after that. The redhead was tormented by the city. Everywhere she went reminded her of him and she couldnât take it anymore.
She couldnât go home to Connecticut and New York wasnât the same without Mark and Derek so thatâs how she and Henry ended up back in Seattle. Addison started working more and eventually came to terms with Jakeâs death. She had started to get used to her small family of two until one day, Henry asked for a sibling. Loving the idea of expanding the family, she got registered at a local agency and about a year later, she ended up adopting a beautiful baby girl named Hermione. Since then, the redhead adopted two more children and a few years later, a fifteen year old named Juliette. Before she knew it, Addison had a full house with five kids. Not having a real family to bring her kids to during the holidays, Carolyn Shepherd took her and her family in. She's always regarded Addison as one of her daughters and her children, grandkids. Although she and Derek split, Carolyn was more of a mother than her mother had ever been and she is eternally grateful to her for that.
