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'''Rita Barksdale''' is [[Helen Morgendorffer]]'s older sister. (For purposes here, her maiden name is used, as her current name in the show was never revealed. It is known she was married to a man named Chambers once, but they divorced.) The ages of the various Barksdale sisters—Rita, Helen, and [[Amy Barksdale|Amy]]—remained a mystery until resolved in two interviews with show creator [[Glenn Eichler]], in March 2005. Rita is the oldest, Helen is next, and Amy is the youngest.
The mother of one daughter, [[Erin Chambers|Erin]], Rita has had a long succession of boyfriends and possibly husbands. She's infamous for picking some really dodgy ones, like a man named Bruno who was in a "federal facility" for an unmentioned crime, and annoying men like [[Paul Meyerson]]. One boyfriend, Brian, was killed in a skydiving accident, but in "I Don't" she showed no reaction to tasteless jokes being made about his demise. In [http://www.mtv.com/onair/daria/chapter2/tangle.jhtml the MTV flipbook "It Takes Two to Tangle" ], it was written that she went out with Meyerson ''because'' he was so dull and pathetic, in reaction to the more adventurous Brian being killed - "her previous boyfriend was killed in a drop; she overcompensated by dating a drip."
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According to Helen, Rita was their mother's favorite daughter, which has led to strained relations between the sisters. Rita, for her part, denies that she was the favourite and views ''Helen'' as working so hard that she made Rita (and Amy) look bad, something she thought Helen was doing deliberately. She views Amy as deliberately avoiding contact with everyone, and views both women as having deliberately ostracised their mother by never contacting her. All three sisters appeared at the same time in the episodes "[[I Don't]]" and "[[Aunt Nauseum]]"; in the latter, they finally (we hope!) buried their past arguments and made up (thanks to nudging from [[Daria Morgendorffer|Daria]] and [[Quinn Morgendorffer|Quinn]]).
In [http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/janeandthelanes.htm another interview], Eichler implied Rita was the type of teeenager "it was very common for the oldest child to get swept up in the social changes of the time [1960s], even maybe losing their footing a bit, whether that meant dropping out of school, becoming a huge druggie, getting into a bunch of bad “all you need is love” relationships, or having any number of other experiences that their parents considered scandalous"; Helen saw that and "pretty far in the other direction, opting for structure, et cetera" (until college, that is).
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