Smart but wholesome Betty embraces her unique appearance and independent attitude in the cutthroat world of New York fashion. With the help of her proud yet far-from-glamorous family from Queens, Betty will continue to have big dreams and deal with any obstacle in her own unique style.
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The main character tracks down her estranged grandmother, who is implied to suffer from Alzheimer's and is mostly non-verbal, but mistakes her granddaughter for her daughter.
Almost, but from a supportive family who wants their relative to know they love and support them no matter what. Another character comes out to a parent and that parent is ashamed. The parent end the relationship with the child.
No, although characters sometimes have visions or hallucinations of dead loves ones, and at the beginning of season 1, some characters dress up and appear/disappear to try to make someone believe he's seeing a ghost.
Several, at various points. One character is in the hospital after being arrested in season 1. Multiple characters are in the hospital for several episodes at the beginning of season 2 after a car crash.
(spoilers) In season 2, episodes 12-15, Wilhelmina's sister, Renee, is revealed to have some unspecified mental illness for which she takes medication. She had previously committed arson which resulted in her lover's death. When her medication is switched out for fakes, she becomes violent and sets another fire which almost results in another death. No one dies but she's presumed to be institutionalized afterwards
Many jokes made about the fact that the people who work at the magazine don't eat and many jokes are made at Betty's expense about her weight and eating habits by her coworkers
No, although there's a brief storyline for a couple episodes in season 2 where someone finds out they're adopted and there's a possibility they're related to a former partner, which turns out to not be the case.
The show begins after a prominent figure at the magazine dies in a car crash. The car is shown afterwards, but not the crash itself. At the end of season 1, there's a nonfatal car crash that puts two main characters in the hospital. You see the lead-up to the crash, but not the crash itself (although you do hear it). And again in season 3, ep 8, you see and hear the lead-up to and aftermath of a car crash, not the crash itself, but no one is hurt.