Fabia (Ugly Betty)

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name = Fabia


caption = Fabia from the season finale "East Side Story"
portrayer = Gina Gershon
creator = Silvio Horta
gender = Female
first = Pilot (aka I Am Not Going To Sell Herbalux)
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age = Mid 40s (est.)
occupation = Fashion/Cosmetics mogul
title = CEO/Founder of Fabia Cosmetics
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children = Daughter (mentioned in pilot episode; about 2)
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Fabia is a fictional character in the American television series Ugly Betty. She is played by actress Gina Gershon. Fabia is a parody of iconic fashion designer Donatella Versace.

Background

Fabia is a fashion/cosmetics mogul and former model who speaks in an Italian accent. She is also a single mother, carries her dog and her entourage around, and chain smokes. She threatens to pull her advertising campaign from "MODE" after seeing the draft which involves a car crash, which hits home for her because she has recently been involved in one herself. It is actually a set-up put together by Wilhelmina Slater and Philippe Michel, so as to make it look like Daniel Meade is responsible for authorizing it. When Daniel realizes that he is being sabotaged, he turns to Betty (after turning her away the first time around) to save the campaign, and she comes through with a concept of her own involving mothers and daughters, using photos of Betty's late mother. Thanks to Betty, not only is the campaign saved, but both Betty's and Daniel's jobs as well.

Fabia returned in the episode "I'm Coming Out", convincing Wilhelmina, with whom she has a rivalry, to have duck semen injected into her face, only to learn that she has tricked Wilhelmina into using the process. After Wilhelmina shows up at Fashion Week with a bloated face that left her blind, Fabia laughs at her, seeing that she has taken her phony advice.

The ongoing rivalry continued in the season finale, "East Side Story", in which she, in exchange for giving up a June wedding (she was going to marry Dimitri, the world's largest shipping magnate in order to get his money) to Wilhelmina, Wilhelmina gave up Marc, but changed her mind as Wilhelmina got back Marc and pushed her wedding date to November.