Little is known of Vivian Taylor, Brittany and Brian's birth mother and Steve Taylor's former wife. It is known that she has worked as an actress/model and later became a restaurant hostess. She divorced Steve under unknown circumstances in her mid-thirties (shortly after Brian's birth) and moved to Hollywood. Indications are that she chose for some reason to desert her family - perhaps because of Brian?

What little we know of Vivian comes from The Daria Database, where a picture of her is held by Brittany is a Taylor family portrait. She has never appeared in any episode of Daria.