Georgie Spinelli


 * Georgie redirects here. For other uses of the name, see Georgie (disambiguation)

 Georgianna "Georgie" Spinelli is a fictional character on the ABC daytime soap opera General Hospital. She is the daughter of Damian Spinelli and Maxie Jones via one night stand.

She was formerly believed to be the daughter of Det. Dante Falconeri and his wife, Lulu Spencer-Falconeri via IVF.

She is currently being portrayed by Harper Rose Barash, the real life daughter of Kirsten Storms, who plays her on-screen mother, Maxie and Brandon Barash, who played Johnny Zacchara. Harper debuted on February 13, 2015.

Background
After Dante and Lulu found out that she couldn't carry to a baby to term, Maxie Jones offered to be their surrogate. Lulu was sceptical at first but eventually warmed up to the idea and accepted Maxie's offer. The doctors implanted Maxie with one of their fertilized embryos and found out she was pregnant on Christmas Eve.

A few days later, Maxie tripped over a dog and miscarried Dante and Lulu's baby but doesn't tell anyone. She ended up sleeping with Spinelli on New Years Eve and got pregnant with her own baby. When Maxie found out that she was pregnant again she decided to pass the baby off as the Falconeri's and decided not to tell Spinelli.

Maxie feels baby Georgie move for the first time on April 26, 2013. Maxie really started to bond with the baby once she found out it was a girl on June 27, 2013. On July 11, Maxie suggested that Lulu name the baby Georgie after her late sister, Georgie Jones, but Lulu said that she needed to save that name for her own daughter.

On July 16, Maxie had a childbirth class and both Dante and Lulu were not able to be there so the baby's real father, Damian Spinelli stepped in. The truth about her biological parents was revealed to Dante and Lulu on September 30, 2013.

In November 2013, Lante and Spixie started a dirty custody battle over baby Georgie. Spinelli ends up winning full custody and her mother, Maxie is not allowed to see her for a period of six months. On Decemeber 16, 2013, Georgie gets to see her mom before she and her father leave Port Charles.

On June 20, Maxie's case is revisited; however, she is denied custody and visitation rights for another six months. It is later revealed that her then boyfriend, Peter Harrell, Jr. (aka Levi), sabotaged the court case by telling the judge that Det. Nathan West lied.

In October 2014, Judge Walters tells Maxie that she can't date and/or be seen with Nathan West if she wants to get visitation with her daughter at her custody hearing in December.

On December 16, Maxie is denied custody and visitation rights again, for another six months because the judge found out that she saw Nathan. On December 22, Judge Walters reversed his ruling and Maxie now has visitation rights.

On January 20, it was revealed that Maxie and Spinelli have shared custody of Georgie.

Georgie is a little over 2 weeks older then Rocco Falconeri, the son of her mom's best friend, Lulu Spencer-Falconeri.

Storylines
Georgie was born onscreen August 21, 2013 via emergency C-section to Dante and Lulu Falconeri after Maxie's water breaks at her parents wedding reception. Maxie, Lulu and her parents go to the hospital and they are joined by Dante who call the perspective "grandparents". When Maxie starts having really painful contraction she asks for Spinelli saying he should be here, which confuses Dante and Lulu so she must be confused because she's tired. While Maxie continues to labor, the baby starts having heart decelerations and Maxie thinks that she gave the baby a bad heart but Lulu reassures her that her heart condition has nothing do with the baby because she is not biologically hers. It turns out that her heart is fine but the umbilical cord is wrapped around her neck. Later on, Spinelli shows up to support Maxie during her labor The baby isn't getting enough oxygen so they have to deliver her right away but Maxie says she needs to tell Spinelli something about the baby before they go, but the doctor said they can't wait so she doesn't get the chance to tell him. They perform an emergency C-section with Lulu in the operating room while Dante and Spinelli watch from the gallery. Lulu holds Maxie's hand while she (Lulu) cuts the cord and the baby is taken away.
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Afterwards, she gets to meet her "parents" and "grandparents", while her biological mother, Maxie starts hemorrhaging but the bleeding is stopped and Maxie lives. Meanwhile, Ellie Trout is telling her biological father, Spinelli the truth about her parentage. Later on, when Lulu suggests she and Dante name "their" daughter, Jacquelyn, Dante says it sounds too much like Spinelli (called the Jackal). Maxie tries to breastfeed the baby but Spinelli stops her and confronts her about keeping the baby's real parents a secret. When Dante and Lulu find out about what Maxie tried to do they threaten to ban her from "their" daughter's life but Maxie says they can't and in the end they don't. Dante and Lulu decided to name the baby, Connie in memory of Dante's late cousin and Lulu's former boss, Connie Falconeri. Dante and Lulu take her home and have a rough couple of nights because "Connie" wants her biological mom, Maxie but they eventually do calm her down.

On September 27, she was baptized as Constanza Louise Falconeri, with Maxie and Spinelli as her godparents. After the baptism, Brad Cooper comes in and tells Dante and Lulu that "Connie" is really Maxie and Spinelli's daughter. Maxie and Spinelli deny that Brad's statement is true and Lulu believes them but Dante doesn't. He starts to interrogate them and Lulu finally figures out (by remembering that Maxie has repeatedly tried telling her something about the baby and then Maxie bonding with the unborn baby) that what Brad said is true. Dante and Lulu have a heated confrontation with Maxie and Spinelli ending with Lulu slapping Maxie and then leaving the church with Dante.

Back at the loft Lulu tells Dante that regardless of the truth she wants to fight to keep "Connie" and at the same time Maxie and Spinelli decide that they want their daughter back. Dante and Lulu calls and ask Spinelli and Maxie to come over so they can talk about "Connie", (Spixie thought that Lante were going to give them back their baby) when they get there they find out that Dante and Lulu had invited them over to sign adoption papers but Spinelli and Maxie tell them that they won't because they want "Connie" but Lulu says she will give them the baby over her dead body, Spixie is floored so Maxie throws the adoption papers on the table and they leave and thus begins a very nasty custody battle. The custody battle started on November 13, 2013 with Alexis Davis representing Dante and Lulu, and Diane Miller representing Spinelli and Maxie.

The custody battle gets very heated but in the end, on November 19, 2013, the Falconeri's lose custody, and the judge awards full custody and parental rights to her biological father, Spinelli. Her biological mother, Maxie is deemed unfit and therefore is denied visitation and is not allowed near "Connie" for a period of 6 months, at which point the possibility of visitation can be revisited. Spinelli and "Connie" moved in with his friend, Sam Morgan and her son, Danny Morgan, so he could keep to the terms of the judge's ruling. Initially Maxie had a hard time staying away from her daughter, and even tried to see "Connie", but Spinelli refused to let her, out of fear that if they got caught, they would both lose custody of their daughter. Devastated over not being able to see her daughter, Maxie attempted suicide with some pills, but was stopped by her thought to be dead cousin, Robin Scorpio-Drake, who convinced her that she was strong enough to withstand the next six months and be better for her daughter.

Shortly after, Spinelli's girlfriend, Ellie received a job offer from a hospital in Portland, Oregon. They were both adamantly against taking the job because neither wanted to take "Connie" that far away from Maxie, but Maxie encouraged Ellie to take the job and told Spinelli that she wanted him and the baby to move to Portland with Ellie. Maxie explained that she wanted them to make the move, because it would be easier to stick to the judge's ruling if her daughter was 3,000 miles away and not right across town. Ellie and Spinelli eventually decide to make the move to Portland and take "Connie" with them. On December 13-16, Spinelli takes the baby to see Maxie before they leave and they decide to rename their daughter Georgie, after Maxie's late sister and Spinelli's friend, Georgie Jones.

On May 20, Georgie is seen with her father and Ellie at their home in Portland, when Carly Jacks and Franco visit, because they need Spinelli's help reconstructing a recording on the late A.J. Quartermaine's phone.
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On December 24, Georgie reunites with her mother for Christmas. She also gets to meet Nathan over the phone.

On December 29, Georgie gets to meet Nathan in person.

On February 13, Georgie returns to Port Charles.

Health and Vitals

 * Born via emergency C-section because the cord was wrapped around her neck [Aug 2013]