Falling in Love with: Bella Swam

 Bella Swam aka Isabella Marie Swam Cullen; preferred to be address as Bella was born in Forks, Washington on 13 September 1987. is the fictional protagonist of the Twilight series, written by Stephenie Meyer. The Twilight series, consisting of the novels Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn, is primarily narrated from Bella’s point of view. In the film series, Bella is portrayed by actress Kristen Stewart.

Bella’s dark brown hair is long, thick and straight. She has a wide forehead with a widow’s peak and also narrow jar with a pointed chin. She’s slender but not muscular. As a human she was very fair-skinned, with chocolate brown eyes and as a vampire she becoming more paler. Bella enjoys reading, especially the classics and listening to music. She is daughter of Carlie Swan & Renee Dwyer (now married to Phil Dwyer).

Bella’s parent was divorced when she was still a baby. She lived with her mother, growing up mainly in Riverside, California & Phoenix, Arizona. Up until 2002, Bella visited her farther in Forks for a month every summer. When Renee fell in love with and married minor-league baseball player Phil Dwyer, Bella chose to move in with her father in Forks so her mother could go on the road with her step farther during the baseball season. Bella arrived in Forks in January 2005 to finish her high school in the town where she was born. On the first day at school she met with Edward Cullen. In Twilight, Bella meets the mysterious Cullen family, and falls in love with Edward Cullen. However, she soon discovers that the family is a coven of vampires. Bella expresses a desire to become a vampire herself, against Edward’s wishes.

 

In the second novel, New Moon, Edward and the other Cullens leave Forks in an effort to keep Bella safe from the vampire world. Jacob Black, a member of the Quileute tribe who is also a shape shifter taking a wolf form, comforts the distraught and severely depressed Bella. She comes to care deeply for Jacob, though less than she loves Edward.

In Eclipse, Bella becomes engaged to Edward, and they marry in Breaking Dawn.

Edward then transforms Bella into a vampire after she nearly dies giving birth to their daughter, Renesmee Cullen.