Here is everything fans need to know about Families Guide, written in plain English and updated for September 2026.

The Bold and the Beautiful runs on three interlocked families — Forresters, Logans, Spencers — and once you see the triangle, every storyline since 1987 snaps into place. Here is the guide.

The Forresters: the house that taste built

Forrester Creations is the show's foundation — the Los Angeles fashion house whose runway shows and design wars are the canvas's professional life. Our Forrester family explainer covers the full tree: the founders' generation, Ridge Forrester at the center, and the next generation — Thomas, and Steffy, who has grown into the company's power center. The family's defining trait: reputation is inventory. A scandal is a product recall, which is why the show detonates its secrets at fashion events — as the fashion show sabotage recap demonstrates.

The Logans: the family that married in

Brooke, Katie and Donna Logan entered the Forrester orbit through romance and became its permanent gravitational field. Brooke's history with Ridge is the show's oldest love story; Katie's is its steadiest conscience; and the fall 2026 preview positions the sisters on opposite sides of a Ridge question — the sister war we covered in detail. The Logans matter because they prove B&B's thesis: on this show, love is a merger.

The Spencers: the leverage family

The Spencer media dynasty — Bill Spencer's empire — provides the third leg: press, power, and the ability to make any private matter public. Spencer-Forrester marriages created the show's most complicated loyalty webs, and Spencer leverage is how private Forrester secrets become front-page ones. The current example: the Steffy-Carter secret is exactly the kind of information a media family can turn into ammunition.