7th Heaven

Played by actress Jessica Biel, Mary Rivera (née Camden) is the oldest daughter of Eric and Annie. By the time she was 14, Mary was an aspiring athlete with an immense love for basketball. As the months progressed, she seemed to rise in both ability and confidence until an accident that took place before the end of her freshman year in which she was hit by a car, critically injuring her knee. She spent months of recuperation afterwards and seemed to be on the right track for the most part. She had a series of different boyfriends and began dating Wilson West, a man with a child from a previous relationship, who would become a more serious person in her life. By Season 4, problems in different subjects like math caused the basketball coach to impose a lockout on her and her teammates. After a secret meeting, the team decided to enact their frustrations by vandalizing the school gym, something that got all of them caught and arrested, Mary included. Through a special program for first offenders, Mary was able to evade serious punishment by doing community service, which was where she met Robbie Palmer, the second serious boyfriend she would have after breaking up with Wilson in season two. Mary fell into further trouble. She could not hold down a job, being fired from everywhere from the pool hall to a book store. Her parents learned that she had been caught drinking while babysitting her cousin Erica; about being pulled over by the cops; her loss of another job; and her debt. In the end Eric and Annie decided it was best she go to New York because they couldn't give her the attention she needed. She lived with her grandparents, the Colonel and Grandma Ruth, worked at a homeless shelter in the fall, and started college in the winter. She left home angry at her entire family, whom she saw as betraying her and refusing to speak to her father. In time, she calmed down and returned home to her father's birthday party. She became involved again with Wilson who was going to school in New York but decided to train as a firefighter. She started training with Ben Kinkirk and she kissed him, which Wilson walked in on and they broke up. She returned home to California for a time, but on a trip to New York with Lucy she revealed she was moving back, and training to be a flight attendant. She began dating Ben again though this did not last. She moved to Florida for a time, where she dated a much older pilot but she eventually was reintroduced to Carlos Rivera. Carlos and Mary were married shortly after Lucy wed and revealed her pregnancy and the marriage to her family at the same time. Her parents visited at the birth of her son, Charles Miguel (Charlie), named in honor of her and Carlos' late grandfathers. They eventually divorced and Carlos took Charlie back to Puerto Rico when Mary gave her son up. It was announced by Carlos when he attended Simon's marriage that the two were back together and that Mary was expecting twin girls. Though Mary was not at Simon's wedding she was able to still see her family the next day as she finally graduated college the same day as Matt and Sarah. During the following summer, Mary gave birth to twin daughters.