Patsy Stone is one of the three main characters from the British television sitcom Absolutely Fabulous, portrayed by actress Joanna Lumley.

[5] Patsy was the last of a string of children born to an aging Bohemian mother in Paris, who gave birth "like a sprinkler, scattering bastard babies all over Europe.

The first few years of her life were spent locked in a room, and the rest of her childhood was dismal by Patsy's own description, without friends, parties, or presents.

[6] This explains a potential plot hole where Edina and Patsy are supposedly far apart in age, yet are shown to be in the same school year in flashback.

Flashbacks to the 1960s reveal Patsy wreaking havoc on the respective sets of Zandra Rhodes' and Annagret Tree's photo shoots.

[10] Patsy shares a codependent existence with Edina and often acts as her enabler, encouraging her to partake in addictive behaviours like smoking and drinking.

The two usually spend their days shopping at high-end department stores and boutiques (Harvey Nichols being their favourite), going to lunch at trendy restaurants, and avoiding their respective work places.

Her dependence on the friendship leads Patsy to sabotage any relationships which take Edina's attention away from her, which is the root cause of her near-constant animosity towards Saffron.

She is so obsessed with projecting youth that she uses a false passport (obtained from "Johnny Fingers" on the Isle of Dogs) with a doctored picture from her modelling days.

[6] Her vanity and obsession with youth leads her to use radical beauty treatments, including sulfuric acid peels, collagen lip injections, and the Botox-like filler Parralox, which freezes wrinkles but paralyses her face.

[22] In "France", she is detained at customs after being found carrying what immigration officers believed to have been cocaine, only to be released when tests show she was cheated and bought talcum powder.

There are only two instances where she does eat: in the episode "New Year's Eve", she painfully chews and swallows a potato crisp, then is visibly shaken from having actually eaten something; and in the Christmas special "Cold Turkey", she renders the entire assembly speechless by demurely asking for a small slice of turkey during Christmas lunch, but chokes it up upon eating it.

She refers to herself as an "international beauty and style guru",[26] boasting that she is so influential that "one snap of my fingers and I can raise hemlines so high that the world is your gynaecologist.

[30] In the 2002 special "Gay", Patsy has taken a job as "executive creative director, chief buyer and lifestyle coordinator" for Jeremy's, an upscale boutique whose clientele consists of "rich bitches whose faces are pulled so tight they can't see what they're buying".

The characters of Patsy and Edina Monsoon enjoy a significant following in the LGBT community[34] and have long been favourite subjects for drag performances.

[citation needed] Jennifer Saunders has described both Patsy and Edina as unconventional feminists, because "[i]t's never been about them finding a relationship, or defining themselves by having to have a man.