Brandi Broke

Brandi Broke (née Newbie) is a pre-created Sim living in the Pleasantview neighborhood in The Sims 2. She is the daughter of Bob and Betty Newbie, from The Sims (both are deceased at the start of The Sims 2's storyline). She has two sons, Dustin and Beau, from her marriage to the late Skip, and soon after the player starts to play the Broke family it becomes clear she is carrying their third child. There is an error with her memories in that she gave birth to Beau after Skip died, yet her third child is recognized by the game as his. Since Brandi could not have gotten pregnant with the third Broke child when she was already pregnant with Beau, Skip could not be the father unless he somehow impregnated her post-mortem. This, however, contradicts a picture in the family album that shows Brandi about to give birth with both Skip and Dustin present.

Brandi wears a pink patterned halter top and tight blue jeans, and her black hair is pulled back with a yellow clip. Brandi and her sons live in a small trailer in an out of the way corner of the neighborhood. She has very little money, perhaps a result of losing her husband to a pool ladder accident, and therefore losing the income he'd brought in. However, she seems to have some expensive items in the house, such as the bed and the pinball machine. She did have a job as a Drive Through Clerk in the Culinary career track, but quit shortly after Beau's birth, possibly to raise him properly. She has a hectic life watching her delinquent teenage son Dustin, caring for Beau due to his being a toddler, and being pregnant with her late husband's third child. She is known for being kind-hearted, sometimes overly so...

Her relationship with each of the Caliente sisters is just short of the friend level, though she doesn't seem to have much in common with either of them.

When first playing the family, Brandi is 22 days away from becoming an elder. Due to this, some players believe she had Dustin as a teen, but that isn't possible unless cheats or hacks are used. Besides, her memories indicate that she was an adult when she had Dustin. Therefore, it can be assumed that she had access to the Elixir of Life at some point after his birth.

She is not unique in this, as it has also been noted in Andrew Martin, of Riverblossom Hills' Martin Family.

Brandi has 8 points of Cooking skill, 2 points of Mechanical skill, and 3 points of Cleaning skill.

In this image and all other storytelling images of Brandi in her adult life, Brandi is wearing unused hair. It's hard to tell, but the bangs are different from the hairstyle she has in-game, which is not unused. The fringe is thicker. Her unused hairstyle is shown in CAS in a trailer for The Sims 2.

Brandi's Unborn Son(s)
Uh, GLITCH! In my game Bradley (Unborn Son) has CUSTOM skin. NOT Brandi's skin.

When the game starts it is revealed that Brandi is pregnant with her third child. However, due to there being no father, the baby will take Brandi's genetics, and have black hair instead of the blond hair that Skip passed down; and will always be male. Of course, the player may choose to change the baby's hair color when he is older. Usually, the baby boy turns into a toddler wearing a blue shirt, brown overalls, and white shoes and socks.

Dustin and Beau's genetics
Though it can be seen in the family tree that green eyed Skip is the father of Dustin and Beau, there seems to be two Skips, as shown in Brandi's memories, there is memory of a green eyed Skip Broke and a blue eyed Skip Broke. Beau and Dustin both have dark blue eyes. Using the SimsPE, if you look in the defaults family, there are two Skip Brokes, and the one you can resurrect has green eyes(Like Olive Specter and Circe and Loki Beaker, they have memories of a different Nervous Subject, and the same goes for Brandi). So the mistake here is that the biological father of Beau and Dustin (green eyed Skip) is the resurrectable Skip, though blue eyed Skip is in the majority of Brandi's memories, and cannot be resurrected, so the genetics of Skip's eyes and Dustin and Beau's do not match.

List of Brandi's memories

 * Potty Trained by Betty Newbie
 * Learned to Walk from Betty Newbie
 * Learned to Talk from Bob Newbie
 * Grew Up Well
 * Met Skip Broke (Green Eyes)
 * Became Best Friends with Skip Broke (Blue Eyes)
 * Grew Up Well
 * Had Very First Kiss with Skip Broke (Blue Eyes)
 * Kissed Skip Broke for the First Time (Blue Eyes)
 * Grew Up Well
 * Fell in Love with Skip Broke (Blue Eyes)
 * Got Engaged to Skip Broke (Blue Eyes)
 * Got a Job
 * Got Married to Skip Broke (Blue Eyes)
 * Did Woohoo with Skip Broke (Blue Eyes)
 * Bob Newbie Died
 * Got a Promotion
 * Betty Newbie Died
 * Had Dustin Broke!
 * Potty Trained Dustin Broke
 * Dustin Broke Grew Up Well
 * Skip Broke Died (Blue Eyes)
 * Dustin Broke Grew Up Badly
 * Had Beau Broke!
 * Quit Job

The Sims 2

 * English: Brandi Broke
 * Italian: Luana Sventura
 * French: Brenda Hasseck
 * German: Babsi Braun
 * Spanish: Begoña Simblanca
 * Portuguese: Brenda Malpaga
 * European Portuguese: Brandi Falido
 * Norwegian: Beate Blakstad
 * Swedish: Barbara Pank
 * Dutch: Wendy Blut
 * Polish: Balbina Biedak
 * Czech: Pavlína Švorcová
 * Danish: Birgitte Rabunduus