Dodie.

Full name: Deirdre Hortense Bishop

Age (season 1): 12

Daughter of Joann and Dave
Sister to Hoodsey.
Best friends with Ginger and Macie

Key episodes: Losing Nana Bishop, Wicked Game,
About Face, Kiss Today Goodbye.

Dodie is Ginger's best friend since first or second grade. She acts as a sounding board and provides Ginger with all sorts of useful and less useful information on school stuff, clothes and every other imaginable subject. Dodie has a dysfunctional relationship with her mother Joann, although they have more in common than they both realize. She was closer to her grandmother Nana from whom she got her trademark pigtails. At Lucky Jr. High, Dodie has only one ambition: to become popular.

Personality: Should you have to define Dodie in one word, 'insecure' would be quite accurate. It's that insecurity that makes her so much of a wannabe. But it also makes that she clings to all BFF traditions and often reacts vicious when anyone comes between her and Ginger. And although Dodie usually means well, she completely lacks Ginger's sense of empathy. As a result she's often completely oblivious of the consequences of her actions for other people.

But Dodie also has her positive sides: she is the most light-hearted, positive and enthusiastic of the three girls. She tops it with a hands-on attitude that Ginger often lacks and in that way they complement each other.

Quote: "I've always loved Caprice but being a leader? It really gives me a sense of purpose." ('Heat Lightning')