Julie Alexandra Mayer is a fictional character on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives.

"[6] For the show's third season, the character's storylines began revolving around themes of teenage rebellion and angst.

She is briefly romantically involved with Zach Young (Cody Kasch), the troubled son of Susan's friend, Mary Alice (Brenda Strong).

[3][5] Eventually, Susan bans Zach from seeing Julie due to his increasingly disturbing behavior, but they continue dating in secrecy.

In the beginning of the third season, Julie meets Edie's nephew, Austin McCann (Josh Henderson), whom she likes but does not want to admit it.

After the two of them, plus Edie and Lynette, are held hostage by Carolyn Bigsby (Laurie Metcalf) in a supermarket, they begin dating.

Unfortunately, her mother and Edie catch Austin having sex with Danielle Van de Kamp (Joy Lauren).

[19] Eventually Julie agrees to give him a second chance, but when Danielle learns that she is pregnant with his child, Orson Hodge (Kyle MacLachlan) insists Austin leave town.

It turns out that Julie is right, because the real Dylan had been crushed to death by a wardrobe and buried just before Katherine Mayfair (Dana Delany) left Fairview.

[22] Julie then began dating a questionable boy named Derek, who has many piercings, which freaks Susan out, so she tries to fix her up with a young man who turns up at the house looking for Mike.

However, Susan quickly breaks the relationship up when she finds out that the young man is in fact Mike's drug dealer.

Lloyd proposes to Julie but she rejects him, stating that she does not believe in marriage, following her mother's string of bad luck.

[27] Several months after waking up from her coma, Julie decides to visit relatives on the East Coast until her attacker is caught.

She plans to give her daughter up for adoption, hoping to spare herself and her child the drama that she experienced while being raised by a single mother.

[31] Later, Susan learns that the baby's father is Porter Scavo (Charlie Carver), son of her friend Lynette (Felicity Huffman).

[33] Julie's baby is born in the same day of Renee Perry's wedding and Karen McCluskey's death, in the series finale.

"[35] Following the character's attack in the sixth-season premiere, Entertainment Weekly's Tanner Stransky wrote: "What I love about having Julie in peril in the first episode is that it's shocking and totally unexpected.