Val is a annoying ass motherfucker I hate stfu u ugly bitch
BYe
Physical Appearance
Val is a woman with chin-length blonde hair. She has wrinkles and signs of aging on her face. She typically dresses much younger than her actual age in styles that are popular among teenagers. Throughout The Lost Girls, she is seen constantly altering her apparel to stay "trendy."
Personality
Val is egotistical, vain, and continually tries to pass herself off as barely out of her teen years (even though her real age is obvious).
Her daily life is that she spends a lot of time trying to further her own image and fame—usually while pretending not to, such as her PR man 'accidentally' leaking that she'd be at Lawndale High—and tries to move in the same social circles as young celebrities. She tends to namedrop the first names of celebrities she's met. In conversation, she alternates between seemingly-clueness attempts to sound young and cool and cynical media manipulator.
Background
A brief glimpse behind the mask was shown when she discovered her (younger) boyfriend Drew, a celebrity, was dumping her for a starlet that he'd got pregnant: she was left distraught, had to mutter the calming mantra "I am Val as in Val" (something she appears to have done before), and made angry and upset threats to destroy his career.
When Daria won the contest, Val came down to Lawndale and managed to go almost a whole day acting like "Dar" was her BFF and they were bonding and Daria's lack of popularity wasn't a disappointment to her. Little glimpses could be shown of her true feelings, such as the brief look on Val's face when she first met Daria, a slight look of contempt when she first saw Jane walk past, her 'joke' of "finally some popular people" when the Fashion Club arrived, and even forgetting where she was for a second and looking at Daria with bemusement and giving an affronted "Who are you?".
Eventually, Daria got fed up and directly criticised Val's status as a self-proclaimed role model and her attempt to pretend she was still a teenager (Daria mentioning her real age seemed to bother her more). Val, in anger, came close to calling her "a brain" and went on to write an article trashing a disturbing "anti-teen" called "D." However, Daria isn't bothered by Val's insults, proving that Daria is right about her.
Trivia
How Val would look if she were twenty something, as she claims to be.
- The episode is ripping the piss out of Jane Pratt, editor of the self-titled Jane Magazine and later of website xoJane. Pratt herself was a good sport about it and in 2010 contributed a tongue-in cheek question, "would you parody someone now in order to make a social statement?," to a Tracy Grandstaff interview. In 1999, MTV's episode guides called it "a "Savvy" - like teen magazine" as a cover. The later website feature "Guestward Ho!" nodded to the real source: "Reminiscent of a real-life editor who named a magazine and a talk show after herself. (But her name has four letters, so it's so totally not her!)"
- Val has a friend called "Nonie."