Velma (Emily Anderson) was born May 29th 1940. She is a rich girl who tends to hang out with a lot of the Jet girls.
Velma was born into royalty. However she really never cared about social status. She uses her father’s social connections to help the Jets. However, shortly after becoming close to the Jets, he dies, leaving her nothing.
She is Riff's girlfriend, and very flirtatious with him. She is a romantic and loves being with Riff. They met in 1953 at a dance. They shared a mambo and began talking. Whilst her father was alive, she used her money to help the Jets and that was when she started dating Riff, within a month of meeting. Once her father died, also now having little money she became closer to the Jets, specifically Riff as their relationship becomes more romantic and less physical.
In 1956, she and Graziella (a jet girl and also her best friend) witness Riff’s death and she was heartbroken for around a decade. Only a few weeks later, she learns she had a miscarriage with what would have been her and Riff's first child. The loss of the love of her life was only worsened by the knowing of how they could have had a family together. In a desperate attempt to escape her depression, she formed a relationship and married former gang partner Mouthpiece, who too hadn’t been the same since Riff’s murder. They had 4 kids. A son, named Riff, twins of opposite gender Mary and Clark, an a final son Dave. They divorced after Velma still couldn’t escape Riff and she unfortunately only met the grandkids of Mary named; Joe, Judy, And John. And The Grandkids Of Dave Named; Luke, Josh And Dave Jr. In 2024 she unfortunately died from breast cancer age 84, however her mental state after loosing the love of her life probably also had an effect on her premature death.