<P> Weiner has attributed Mad Men's visual style to the influence of film director Alfred Hitchcock, who featured a signature "icy blonde" female character in many of his films . Betty Draper's character has also been compared to that of Peyton Place's Constance MacKenzie: "cold, remote, and emotionally unavailable ." </P> <P> Betty was born Elizabeth Hofstadt in 1932 . According to her son's birth certificate, she was born in Cape May, New Jersey, where her wealthy family summered . She grew up in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia located on the "Main Line". She is of German ancestry . Betty graduated from Bryn Mawr College with an anthropology degree and briefly modeled in Italy (where she became fluent in Italian) before moving to Manhattan . It was during this time that she met Don Draper--he was writing ad copy for a fur company, and she was one of their models . He began courting her by buying her the fur coat she wore at a shoot . Betty and Don were married in May 1953 . Her favorite movie is Singin' in the Rain (1952). Betty's mother Ruth died early in 1960, three months before the events of the episode "Ladies Room". Her father, Gene (Ryan Cutrona), had a girlfriend named Gloria, whom Betty disliked and whom her father married sometime in the 18 months between seasons 1 and 2; Gloria left Gene when he began showing signs of mental deterioration in Season 3 . He moved in with the Drapers during season 3 and later died in that season, set in 1963 . Betty has a brother, William, who is married to Judy and whose daughters Don and Betty consider to be "rowdy ." Betty's confidantes have included her neighbor Francine Hanson and Glen Bishop, the young son of divorcée Helen Bishop . Ill - suited for parenting, Betty has a strained relationship with her children, particularly with her daughter Sally . </P> <P> Betty and Don Draper live in a large house in suburban Ossining, New York, with their children Sally (played by Kiernan Shipka) and Bobby . In the second episode, set in the spring of 1960, Betty starts to see a psychiatrist to address repeated spells of numbness in her hands, which medical doctors have indicated are psychosomatic . It was during these meetings that, after having discovered the psychiatrist was giving reports of her sessions to Don, she voiced her suspicion that her husband was unfaithful . By the start of the second season, set in February 1962, she had discontinued the consultations . </P> <P> During the second season episode "A Night to Remember", Betty and Don seem to have reached an agreement, but after a dinner party where Betty is embarrassed to be considered a "demographic" by Don and his associates, she confronts her husband for the first time about his adultery, specifically with Bobbie Barrett . Don, however, denies having an affair . The next day, with a glass of wine in hand, Betty searches through Don's belongings for proof of his indiscretions but does not find any . Betty awakens Don - who is sleeping on the couch - that night and explains that she doesn't want things to "be like this ." He repeats that he did not do anything, and when she asks if he hates her, he insists that he loves her and doesn't want to "lose this ." When preparing dinner the next day, an Utz commercial featuring Jimmy Barrett airs on the television . After seeing this, Betty calls Don at work and tells him she doesn't want him to come home . </P>

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