It was a running joke that Edina was trying to lose weight, since she aspired to be as thin as the models she rubbed elbows with. I think she was in PR. An  33f3  d standing next to Joanna Lumley, she did look like a heifer. Great self-deprecating humor. But it was the nineties, when fat people knew they were fat.  She had a comedic partnership with Dawn French as well. But standing next to her, she was svelte.