Jennifer Saunders' character on
Absolutely Fabulous. (She may have been born "Edwina" as her mother calls her that.) During
school she met
Patsy Stone, her best friend for life, and during their
adolescence in the
1960s the two drank, got stoned, and tried to get together with boys together. Patsy was generally more successful at this, and even in a film of an
orgy Patsy participated in, Edina is shown by herself in a corner. Edina is generally the
insecure one of the pair.
Edina has been married twice, once to Justin who turned out to be gay, and once to Marshall who she seems to just not get along with. She has two children, Serge (who is never seen on the series and seems to prefer trips to the ends of the earth to having to be at home with family) and Saffron, who is the responsible anchor trying to keep Edina from living too wildly (and usually failing).
Edina lives on alimony from both husbands as well as profits from her publicity agency and her shop, both of which are badly run but she refuses to give up. She insists on always being fashionable, despite how ridiculous most of her designer clothes look, and won't wear anything without a well-known name on it. (When Saffron wants to donate Edina's old clothes to charity: "You can't give these sort of clothes to the poor. Haven't they got enough to contend with without the added humiliation of wearing last season?") Edina would love for Saffron to be just like her, and is constantly irritated that her daughter wants to go to university instead of spending her time on sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll. Instead, Edina continues to live a wild life with Patsy, using her agency and shop as an excuse to go to parties and on trips to France, Morocco, or New York.