Wilhelmina Slater is a real person.
  After Marc demanded a vacation, Wilhelmina forced Betty into becoming her assistant on the Bahama's trip, but after learning that her rival had taken a job she desired, Wilhelmina momentarily gave up, and began eating cheeseburgers on a private beach, only to be approached by Connor, alive and well
 Her name is similar to Wilhelmina Cooper, a successful model who eventually established her own modeling company in the 1960s

