Jenny Penny

Jenny Josephine Penny is the main and titular character of the book Pumpkin Pie. She is the middle child out of three siblings; her older sister Louise and her younger brother Pip. She is nicknamed Pumpkin and Plumpkin by her father.

Characteristics
Jenny is a 12 year old girl who is short and plump to begin with. She has blonde, thick, very curly hair, blue eyes and fair skin. She later grows thinner due to having bulimia, but with the help of her siblings, gets better and becomes a healthier weight.

Attire
For school, Jenny wears a grolly green sweatshirt, white blouse, tie, grolly green skirt with matching tights and black shoes. Out of school she mainly wears plain t shirts with jeans. For her drama class at Ambrose Academy, she wears a black sweatshirt with Ambrose Academy on the front, and black leggings. She also has pierced ears, usually wearing small flower stud earrings.

Personality
Jenny is a kind, but generally reserved person. She wants everyone to like her, and has tried to alter her personality several times, but couldn't keep up any of it. She was weak to her dad mildly emotionally blackmailing her about food, but later grows stronger with the help of her siblings, who were horrified at the measures she was taking to slim. She cares very much about her family, and grows closer to her siblings. Jenny likes fashion, and is very imaginative, which is how she created her character of Mrs. Fuzzle, for the drama school play, Sob Story.

Trivia

 * Jenny is the middle child in her family.
 * Jenny developed bulimia after being cruelly told by a former TV star that came to visit her drama club to "lose some excess baggage", and after discovering the titular character of the book Here Comes Ellen (which had her face on the front) was a fat girl, and thought this was why she was picked.
 * Jenny best friend is Saffy.
 * Jenny mentioned Saffy is the only one who knows about her dad nicknaming her Pumpkin.
 * Jenny has tried to change herself many times, but didn't manage to keep any of it up. Here are what she tried:
 * Bright and Breezy - excluding confidence rom very pore, and saying things like "hey!", "Wow!", and "Way to Go!". She found this pathetic, and seemed more obnoxious to the point that other people asked her who she though she was all of a sudden.
 * Loud and Laddish - Making smutty jokes and long snorty cackles at anything even faintly suggestive. She goes as red as a beetroot just even thinking of this.
 * Creepy Crawly - Humble, oozing humility. She thinks of one word whenever she remembers: YUCK.
 * Eager Beaver Sports Freak - playing football in the school playground every breaktime, and getting up at half past seven in the morning to practise netball at school. She thought this was a bore.