Antoinette Marie "Toni" Childs-Garrett

Toni Childs is the sharp-dressed, sharper-tongued real estate agent in Joan's tight circle of friends, chasing money, status, and a husband with the same enthusiasm she brings to a designer sale. She's blunt to the point of ruthless, unashamedly materialistic, and treats appearances as a serious life philosophy worth defending loudly.

Jill Marie Jones plays Toni's vanity and ambition without apologizing for either, which makes her funnier than a simple 'shallow friend' type has any right to be. The writing lets her say the cutting, status-obsessed thing everyone else is thinking, and Jones delivers it with such conviction that Toni's superficiality starts to look like its own kind of honesty.“}