Mandy seduces Lip in the second season, before agreeing to do the same to Jody in an attempt to break him and Karen up. They decide to have a fundraiser to raise money for an abortion. However, in the episode A Great Cause, Mandy tells Ian and Lip that she was impregnated by her father, who sometimes rapes Mandy when drunk. In the episode Hurricane Monica, it is revealed that Mandy is pregnant. Despite acting as Ian's beard, she has no idea that he is in fact having sex with her brother, Mickey. She soon agrees to act as his 'beard', his fake girlfriend to help keep his sexuality secret. However, he later tells her his sexuality, something that causes her to understand his lack of interest. She is put out as someone not to mess with initially when Ian does not share the same feelings for her, she accuses Ian of attacking her. She develops an interest in him, after he trips a teacher who placed unwanted advances on her.
She is the bad girl of Ian's class, shown to be as born on the wrong side of the tracks, Mandy also possesses a sweeter side to her.
