Chandler heard the rumor in his high school about a 'hermaphrodite cheerleader from Long Island' however he didn't know it was Rachel. They spread a rumor about her, saying that she 'had both male and female reproductive parts' and that 'her parents flipped a coin and decided to raise her as a girl' which everyone in the entire high school (apart from Rachel herself) heard. Ross, Will and a foreign student formed an I Hate Rachel Greene Club. Ross dealt with the fact that she never seemed to notice his feelings for her in a very immature way. In high school she was very popular and a mean girl. Rachel herself was a bully to an overweight student named Will Colbert. She soon learned how unpleasant, careless and unfaithful at his core Chip was when he ditched her at the prom to have sex with another girl named Amy Welsh, leaving Rachel embarrassed and alone without a date. Later he missed his chance when Chip arrived before he could ask her. When it appeared that Chip was never going to arrive, Ross, after being encouraged by his parents Jack and Judy, decided to ask her out himself.

She was also involved with a popular fellow high school student named Chip, who arrived late to take her out to the high school prom. Ross knew she would have rejected him and she did, as shown in the Pilot when Rachel thought her was just 'Monica's geeky older brother'. Rachel also soon met Monica's older brother, Ross, who developed a crush on her which he decided to keep to himself, although years later Rachel admitted she knew about his crush. They quickly became best friends, remaining exactly like that from then, and the friendship flourished by attending the same high school. She met Monica Geller for the first time when they were both six years old. Rachel originally had a big nose but she later got a nose job. Rachel Karen Greene was born to wealthy parents, Leonard and Sandra Greene, who gave her and her two sisters Jill and Amy a rather spoiled upbringing, resulting in them not being able to be independent from their parents financially at first.

The ending credits in the episodes where Rachel's parents appear, spell the family name 'Green', as well as some of the subtitles. press materials (it produced the show) spell her last name 'Green'. In the original script of the Friends pilot her last name was 'Robbins', when mentioned by Ross, however that line didn't appear in the actual episode. This is not a reliable context, as Rachel ordered by phone and it is possible that a bakery employee (either the secretary who took the order, or the cook who made the cake) made a mistake. In-universe the only time her name is visibly 'Green' without an 'e' at the end, is hand written on the box of Emma's birthday cake in ' The One With The Cake' (S10E04). Rachel, her boss and her colleagues must know how the name is spelled and if it was wrong they would have had the nameplate remade. On Rachel's office door nameplate at Ralph Lauren, clearly visible in ' The One With Phoebe's Rats' (S9E12).The parents, friends and family all see the name tag and would have had it corrected if it were mistaken. Hospital staff are highly trained to type the correct name based on the parents' identity papers, and are unlikely to make a mistake. On the label of Emma's cradle in ' The One Where Rachel Has A Baby, Part 2' (S8Р•24).Ross has known Rachel for more than a decade, was in love with her and was her boyfriend, and he wrote the name 'Greene'. In ' The One With The Invitation' ( S4E21) on Rachel's invite to Ross' wedding.The name can be seen spelled 'Greene' in-universe 3 times: A 'reliable', 'in-universe', context is when the characters must know how the name is spelled, and write it or leave it one way, not the other. Both 'Green' and 'Greene' are pronounced the same, and the name is heard in-universe far more often than it appears written.ДЄlthough many websites spell Rachel's family name as 'Green' like the color, in the actual episodes it can only be seen spelled ' Greene' in a reliable context.

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