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Nee Tara Leigh Patrick, Carmen Electra was born
on April 20, 1972 in White Oak, Ohio. Carmen's talents were evident
when she was a child, as she was to attend the School for Creative
and Performing Arts at only nine years old.
In school, Carmen began taking singing lessons
and practicing her vocal talents. By the time she was a teenager,
she was performing in musicals (as a dancer) and doing her own choreographies.
Her ultimate ambition was to go to Los Angeles
and sign a record deal. By the tender age of only fifteen, Carmen
was on her way to realizing her dream.
Carmen decided to relocate to Minneapolis, where
she resided with her sister, and she made a living as a clothes
model for Target department stores.
After four years went by, Carmen decided to move
to Los Angeles, change her then name Tara Leigh Patrick to Carmen
Electra, and only one week after doing all this, Carmen ran into
musical talent, Prince. Since Prince liked Carmen's appearance and
style, he signed her to a Paisley Park Records label deal in 1992.
Unfortunately, despite all of Prince's efforts in
helping Carmen by promoting her and her new album, her music career
failed miserably. Her single Go-Go Dancer hardly got any airtime
on MTV, and when the single hit the store shelves in 1992, it didn't
sell well at all.
Three years later, Carmen had renewed her flailing
image and appeared on the Nickelodeon show entitled All That.
Perhaps Carmen's most noted move was her posing
for Play boy in 1996. As well, she did a Play boy video entitled
Play boy Cheerleaders, and Carmen shows off her "musical" talents
by singing "2-4-6-8". That same year, Carmen began guest hosting
on MTV's Loveline.
A couple of months later, Lisa Berger, MTV's vice
president, announced that Carmen was chosen to be Jenny McCarthy's
replacement on the show Singled Out. Although the deal was for 65
episodes, Carmen's popularity was not that of Jenny's and the show
eventually fizzled.
Considering Carmen was a voluptuous and beautiful
woman, it was only natural that Baywatch came knocking on Carmen's
door. She came on as a replacement for Pamela Anderson and did a
splendid job (no, seriously).
Since then, Carmen has appeared in a comic book,
was the national spokesperson for Budweiser beer, and she appeared
in the 2000 sleeper comedy hit of the year Scary Movie.
On the personal front, Carmen's relationship with
Dennis Rodman has become a breeding ground for tabloids as well
as the rest of the media. The two tied the knot in 1997 and separated
only seven days later - with Rodman claiming that he wasn't in his
right state of mind at the time.
They ultimately got an annulment. Although the two
have been arrested for fighting in a hotel, the two still remain
together despite all the antics and rumors that are continuously
spread about them.
Besides Rodman, Carmen has been romantically linked
to Tommy Lee, Cypress Hill's B-Real and Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst.
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