December 10: Haley celebrates her 21st birthday and get a car, that's what she always wanted.
Through the 11 seasons of the show, fans witnessed how much the actress' appearance has changed. Viewers were particularly concerned about her drastic weight loss, as well as her swollen face. Hyland later revealed that it was due to a chronic illness that led to two kidney transplants.
October: The Dunphy family meet their new neighbors, the LaFontaine Family, and begin a rivalry/friendship. November: Haley Gets A Job at Gavin Sinclair, The Fashion Experts. December 10: Haley celebrates her 21st birthday and gets a car, which is something she has always wanted.
Sarah Hyland as Haley Dunphy
Her character, however, was only 16 in the first season and later celebrated her 21st birthday in Season 6, making the age gap between her and her character one of the most significant in the series.
Sarah Hyland hasn't been in every episode of Modern Family's final season. The 29-year-old actress, who has played Haley Dunphy in all 11 seasons of the ABC comedy, responded to a fan on Twitter asking about her absence. “Apparently I've been busy with the twins,” she wrote back Friday with a shrugging emoji.
"This is just my natural hair. I just had extensions in for Modern Family," she said. "With medications and stuff, it can make your hair fall out. So I had extensions put in for Haley to hide any of that loss."
"Haley's 21st Birthday" is the tenth episode of the sixth season of the American sitcom Modern Family, and the series' 130th episode overall. It originally aired on December 10, 2014. The episode was written by Abraham Higginbotham and directed by Alisa Statman.
We've had Phil and Claire talk about it, but you've never seen it. So that will be a really interesting aspect because she is 25 years old, which is a completely normal time to have a baby; in some states, that's old, and in other states, that's a fetus.
During the first season of "Modern Family," Haley Dunphy (Sarah Hyland) — the prim and proper eldest daughter of Phil (Ty Burrell) and Claire (Julie Bowen) — is presented as being 16 years old. However, in real life, Sarah Hyland was 19 years old at the time cameras started rolling on the first batch of episodes.
Haley was born on December 10, 1993. At the start of the series, Haley is a high school sophomore.
While Modern Family got a lot wrong when it came to Sarah Hyland's Haley Dunphy, the character's pregnancy was not the worst decision the family sitcom made for her. Modern Family star Sarah Hyland stated in a Cosmopolitan interview that she didn't care for Haley's pregnancy arc in the sitcom's final seasons.
Haley Gwendolyn Marshall (née Dunphy) is a major character from the ABC sitcom Modern Family. She is is the eldest child of Claire and Phil Dunphy and also the older sister of Luke and Alex.
On Modern Family season 8, viewers of the show noticed that Sarah's face appeared more swollen than usual, leading many to believe she had some work done. The actress later revealed that the change in her appearance was actually due to health complications.
Hyland went on to explain that over the years, she's chosen to wear “extensions” on Modern Family, because her hair had started to fall out as a result of her battle with kidney dysplasia and endometriosis. “With medications and stuff, it can make your hair fall out,” she shared.
But near the end of the series, things started to fall into place for Haley. She settles into a career in fashion and ends up reconnecting with her first boyfriend, Dylan. Haley ends up getting pregnant with twins, so she and Dylan get married to honor their love and commitment to one another.
Modern Family may have annoyed viewers when Haley's pregnancy plot arrived in season 10, but Alex predicted this exact twist in the pilot.
Of the three James sisters to appear in the series, Haley is the youngest, Quinn is the second and Taylor is the oldest. Taylor is three years older than Haley and Quinn was born a year after as she wasn't at Tree Hill High when Haley was in her junior year.
At the end of the first Season Nathan and Haley decide to get married at the age 16.
At the Bottom of Everything.
Even when Haley and Andy were dating Dylan and Beth, respectively, at the time, Haley still longed for Andy. She only went to Dylan because she was lonely. If Andy never left California, he and Hailey would have ended up together.
In season 4, while they are still in high school, Haley and Nathan, discover they are expecting a baby, a boy, that they decide to name : James Lucas ("Jamie") Scott. In the eighth season, Haley and Nathan will welcome their second child, a girl : Lydia Bob.
A scandal threatens Nathan's career in the NBA; Haley goes back on the road, but suffers a family tragedy that causes her a very intense battle with depression.