Jane Villanueva played by award winning actress Gina Rodriguez , was coached by her grandmother that women must protect their virginity at all costs and that telenovelas are the highest form of entertainment.

Now at the age 23, Jane is a driven young woman studying to become a teacher, nursing a dream to be a writer, and supporting herself with a job at a hot new Miami hotel.

All the years of watching telenovelas with the two women who raised her,  her sexy, young-at-heart mother, Xiomara (known as “Xo”), and her still-devout grandmother, Alba  have given Jane a slightly unrealistic view of romance.

Although she is determined not to make the same mistake Xo made by becoming an unwed mother at the age of16, Jane could not be closer to the two wonderful women who have shaped her life.

Jane’s mother and grandmother are two different individuals, her mother lives her life as a perpetual teenager, performing at local clubs and always looking for a new man, while her grandmother makes religion and prayer the focus of her life, but both women consider Jane the center of their universe and love the grounded, compassionate and ambitious young woman she has become.

Despite the conflicting influences of her mother and grandmother, Jane has managed to find a wonderful fiancé: a handsome, hard-working detective named Michael, who loves her enough to accept her detailed timeline for their future together and even her insistence on “saving herself” until they’re married.
Jane’s meticulous life plans are turned upside down when she sees her doctor for a routine check-up and is accidentally artificially inseminated with a specimen meant for the patient in the next room. Unbeknownst to her, the specimen belongs to Rafael, a reformed playboy and cancer survivor, who is not only the new owner of the hotel where Jane works but also a former summer crush of hers.

A few weeks later, the unsuspecting Jane is faced with the most important decisions of her life. Will she continue with the pregnancy? How can she explain the situation to her fiancé and family? And what should she do about the wishes of the biological father, Rafael, and his scheming wife Petra? At the same time, Jane’s mother Xo is facing a life-changing decision of her own: after years of letting Jane and Alba believe she didn’t know the identity of Jane’s father, the time has come to admit the truth , Jane’s father is Xo’s former boyfriend Rogelio. Making the situation even more surreal, Rogelio is now a huge telenovela star, and he definitely wants to meet his unsuspecting daughter.

Though she has always tried to be the responsible good girl who does the right thing, Jane’s normally quiet life has suddenly become as dramatic, complicated and unpredictable as the telenovelas she has always loved.

Don’t miss Jane the Virgin on Saturdays at 20:30, only on SABC2