Kirby has a case of
"upstairs, downstairs" syndrome. She is the daughter of the
Carrington's majordomo Joseph Anders and his wife Alicia. Kirby
grew up with Fallon, Steven and Jeff and often was included in
the children’s' parties. Alicia left when Kirby was two and she
was raised by her father. Joseph provided his daughter with the
best life he could. She attended school at the Sorbonne in
Paris and obtained a degree in Humanities.
While living in Paris, she
had an affair with a married French Count. Upon her return to
Denver, Kirby's childhood crush on Jeff returned in full force.
As a way to stay close to him she accepted a job as a nanny for
Little Blake.
Adam was attracted to Kirby
and even more so when he realized that she wanted Jeff. He
offered Kirby a job with Colbyco as a translator and although
she didn't take the job on a full time basis, she did agree to
translate a few documents for him. As a thank you, he invites
her to dinner. She accepts the invitation and comes to dine at
Alexis' penthouse. Adam gets aggressive and although she tries
to get away from him, he rapes her.
Afraid to be alone with him,
Kirby objects to going to a conference with Adam but he swears
he'll be on his best behavior. While she's sleeping he stops at
a motel and tries to seduce her again. Jeff bursts through the
door and rescues Kirby from Adam's clutches. Jeff and Kirby
grew closer and made love. A few weeks later Jeff proposed
marriage. She immediately accepted and they ran off to Reno to
elope. At long last Kirby had achieved her dream of being Mrs.
Jeffrey Colby. The fairy tale didn't go as planned.
Within a month of getting
married, Kirby discovered she was pregnant. She and Jeff were
overjoyed about the news until her obstetrician told her that
she was over three months pregnant instead of the month she
thought she was. Kirby was horrified to realize that her unborn
child was Adam's. She tried to induce a miscarriage by falling
off a horse but it didn't work. Her world was turned upside
down after Joseph confessed to trying to kill Alexis and Krystle
then shot himself to death. Faced with the truth coming out
about the baby, Kirby told Jeff about the rape and the fact that
the baby isn't his. Jeff beat Adam to a pulp for raping Kirby
and told him she was carrying his child.
Adam did a complete
about-face and begged Kirby to give him a chance to be a good
husband and father. Kirby agreed to marry Adam as soon as her
divorce from Jeff was final. Things took another turn for the
worse when she developed preclampsia. She paid no attention to
the doctor's warnings and ended up being hospitalized with
hypertension. Her condition got substantially worse and became
life threatening. Doctors delivered a baby girl but the child
died shortly after birth.
Distraught over her loss of
her child, her marriage and her father, Kirby snapped when
Alexis decided she wanted Kirby out of Adam's life. She offered
her a job in Paris that Kirby declined to take. As a last-ditch
effort Alexis showed Kirby newspaper clippings that proved that
her mother was still living and being held in a prison for the
criminally insane after she killed her lover in a jealous rage.
Kirby realized that Joseph killed himself to keep Alexis quiet
and decided to kill her. She confronted Alexis with a gun.
Alexis watched as a very shaky Kirby put the gun down and
accepted Alexis' offer to go to Paris. She packed up and left
without a word to Adam or anyone else.
Years later, Adam and Kirby
met again in Switzerland. While she tried to help Adam rescue
Jeff, she discovered that she really was in love with Adam.
They made peace with each other and when he proposed to her, she
willingly accepted.
