New Girl: 10 Saddest Things About Cece

On New Girl, Cece has been Jess Day’s best friend since they were teenagers – and she’s been part of the show since day one. Although Cece is a central character, a lot of the time she’s defined largely by the other main characters or in the romantic relationships she’s in, which is inherently sadder than being a more individualistic character like most of the main cast.

Though most of Cece’s life is pretty carefree, she still has a lot of sad things about her life from her family putting pressure on her to marry a perfect man to difficulties in her job as a model and deciding what she wants to do as a career to general wavering confidence.

10 She Doesn’t Have Many Friends Besides Jess

This might be because Cece isn’t the main character of the show, but it seems that she doesn’t have many friends outside of Jess besides her model roommates who she doesn’t appear to get along with that well. It would be nice if Cece had more friends she could lean on and hang out with even though Cece and Jess have been so close for so many years.

9 Family Pressure To Marry The Perfect Man

Cece again has difficulties with her identity and her family as she tries to put on a perfect facade for her family and part of that is finding a successful and perfect man to marry. Schmidt and Cece had been a great couple, but they fell apart, and she decided to agree to marry Shivrang even though she had some lingering feelings for Schmidt.

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Although Shivrang was a great guy and the two could have worked, the relationship wasn’t perfect for Cece and she felt some pressure from her mother to go through with the marriage.

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8 Her Father Died When She Was Young

Cece’s father died when she was young and it was difficult for her to cope with his death, as it would be for anyone. But to make this even sadder, it seems that Cece was close to him, and she was only a teenager when he passed. Jess of course tried to help her cope, but it is difficult for anyone to reckon with losing a parent that young and it’s a sad backstory that isn’t really covered in the show that much.

7 Strained Relationship With Her Mother

After her father died when she was young, Cece and her mother had a strained relationship growing up that Jess tried to help mend when they were teenagers. Cece’s mother isn’t in the series much, but she does visit when Cece is about to get married to Shivrang and when she does eventually get married to Schmidt later in the series. Cece feels disconnected from her mother and that she can’t be herself around her mother as she puts on a facade to try to impress her.

6 Deals With Judgement As A Model

Cece is a model for most of the show and she faces a lot of judgment from the other characters in the show including her best friend Jess. Even though Cece has been a model for a decent amount of time, Jess still doesn’t fully understand or respect the job. In an episode where Cece can’t make her modeling gig, Jess decides to fill in for her thinking that it won’t be difficult at all, but she quickly finds that it’s a grueling and difficult job. Also, the guys, particularly Schmidt, have their own ideas about Cece only based on the fact that she’s a model.

5 Temporarily Lost After Quitting Modeling

Cece decides to quit her modeling career to pursue her GED but isn’t sure exactly what she wants to do – so Nick offers her a job working at the bar. She agrees even though she isn’t interested in bartending and ends up not being very good at it and never fully catching on. She takes the bartending job to get money while pursuing her GED. Pursuing a degree and taking a job that isn’t in your interest is relatable, but it was still a sad arc when she had been so confident as a model and was lost for a while after quitting.

4 Felt Pressure To Quit Modeling Due To Her Age

Cece decides to quit modeling to pursue her GED instead, which is a perfectly fine choice, but it seems that part of the reason she quit was that she became self-conscious about her age within the industry.

It’s a sad reality about the industry that models typically can’t stay in the profession and it’s a sad part of the fashionable Cece’s story that she felt she had to quit a job she loved partly because of her age.

3 Tends To Be Defined By Her Relationships

Cece is rarely single throughout the show, which is similar to most of the characters, but Cece is usually defined by her relationship instead of as an individual. This might be because she is a secondary character and therefore isn’t the focus of most of the storylines, but it’s still a sad fact about her life that she is mostly defined by her relationships, specifically when she dates main character Schmidt.

2 Needs To Be In A Relationship

Along with the tendency to be defined by her relationship and never really being single, it seems that Cece has a need to be in a relationship. Whether it be Schmidt, Robby who Jess also dated, or Shivrang, Cece is typically in a relationship or choosing to be with a man versus having time to herself. While there’s nothing wrong with that, it would have been nice for her to take a break from relationships and have the show focus on her as an individual for a while.

1 She Was Embarrassed By Schmidt

Although Cece and Schmidt are eventually happily married, their relationship beginning was rocky and a lot of it had to do with Cece being so embarrassed that she liked him. It was a sad fact at the beginning of their relationship that she was afraid of what people might think of her if anyone knew that she was dating him that they kept the relationship a secret at first.

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