Tara Reid

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Tara Reid

Reid at the 2007 MuchMusic Video Awards
Born November 8, 1975 (1975-11-08) (age 32)
Wyckoff, New Jersey, USA
Years active 1980 ─ present

Tara Reid (born November 8, 1975) is an American actress. She is known for her roles in the films The Big Lebowski (1998), American Pie (1999), American Pie 2 (2001), National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002), My Boss's Daughter (2003), and Alone in the Dark (2005).

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Reid was born in Wyckoff, New Jersey, the daughter of Donna and Tom Reid, both of whom are teachers and day care center owners. She attended Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School, then went to Ramapo High School and graduated while attending Barnstable Academy, a performing arts-centric school. Both high schools were in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey (Barnstable is now in Oakland, N.J.).

She has a younger sister, Colleen, and two brothers, Tom and Patrick (who is a twin of Colleen).[1] Reid grew up in New Jersey.

[edit] Career

Reid began her career at the age of six in 1982 on the game show, Child's Play. As a child, she had roles in a number of commercials for McDonald's, Crayola, and Jell-O. She grew up in New York City, and attended the Professional Children's School alongside such celebrities as Christina Ricci, Ben Taylor, Jerry O'Connell, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Macaulay Culkin.[2] Although her breakthrough role was in American Pie in 1999, followers of the 1998 cult film The Big Lebowski already knew her as Bunny Lebowski. Reid spent the late 1990s appearing more often on the cover of tabloid magazines than on screen. Her extroverted social life soon gave her a reputation as a party girl; in fact, U.S. magazine In Touch Weekly, recently voted Reid "top party animal". She spoofed that image with her role on the NBC sitcom Scrubs as Danni Sullivan, main character J.D.'s promiscuous girlfriend.

Taradise, her half-hour television show on the E! network, premiered in September 2005; it was canceled the following month. The show was an updated incarnation of E!'s popular series Wild On, where a celebrity host or model traveled to exotic locations to party with locals. Previously during summer 2005, she was busy shooting Incubus in Romania at an assortment of clubs with Bucharest's local socialites. In January 2007, Reid filmed a commercial with Daniel Conn for Dodo, an Australian budget phone and Internet provider. Reid appeared in the September 2007 issue of FHM magazine.

In May 2008 according to numerous reports Tara has been revealed to be a candidate for the upcoming season of the U.S. series Dancing With The Stars. It has not been confirmed as of yet. [3]

[edit] Personal life

Tara Reid.
Tara Reid.

Carson Daly made a cameo appearance in Josie and the Pussycats, in which Reid played the Pussycat Melody. In June 2001, Reid and Daly broke off their engagement.[4] She previously had dated Russian hockey star, Sergei Fedorov. In the late 1990s she dated actor Steve Burton and still is close to him and his family.[5] She briefly dated football players Tom Brady, Jeremy Shockey,[6] Kyle Boller and tennis player Mark Philippoussis.[7] Most recently, it was reported that she engaged in a sexual encounter in a club bathroom stall with the late Heath Ledger, thus furthering her sexy party girl image [8]

On the night of November 4, 2004, Reid was embarrassed at a highly-publicized photo shoot at Puff Daddy's 35th birthday party at Cipriani's Restaurant in New York City, when her dress fell, exposing her left breast. Photos of Reid having larger, perkier breasts than before had been circulating the Internet for several months before the incident, igniting rumors of Reid having undergone a breast augmentation. Scar tissue was visible around Reid's nipple, confirming rumors of breast implants. The photographs were widely distributed. In August 2005, she publicly admitted getting breast augmentation surgery.[citation needed] In October 2006, she admitted in an interview with Us Weekly that she also had liposuction.[9] In the interview she also discusses how her plastic surgery "went wrong," and also explains why she decided to have plastic surgery done, saying that her breasts were uneven and that she had saggy skin. In the same interview, Reid's new plastic surgeon, Dr. Steven Svehlak, reported that he performed a procedure called a doughnut mastopexy to correct her original breast augmentation.

On New Year's Eve 2006, at a large celebration in Chicago, Reid made several numerical errors in hosting the minute-long countdown for the year. A video of the incident circled the Internet.[10]

Reports surfaced in October 2007 that she had been hospitalised at the Centinela Freeman Regional Medical Center as a result of alcohol abuse. Reid has denied the reports, insisting, "I'm fine."[11] Reid shocked people by her thinner appearance in November and December 2007. [12]

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[edit] References

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:
  1. ^ Tara Reid - Profile, Latest News and Related Articles
  2. ^ Children's School: Distinguished Alumni
  3. ^ Hollywoodtuna » Blog Archive » WTF?! Sexy Tara Reid FHM Magazine Pictures
  4. ^ It's Finally Over for Tara Reid and Carson Daly
  5. ^ More on Jess' Tresses! (see bottom of page)
  6. ^ Who needs a knight in shining armor?
  7. ^ Tara Reid arrives in style
  8. ^ The Awful Truth
  9. ^ Us Exclusive: Tara Admits to Botched Implants, Liposuction
  10. ^ 20, 10 ... 5, 14: Tara Reid Rings in the New Year
  11. ^ Reid denies hospital liver check-up. Ireland On-Line (2007-10-19). Retrieved on 2007-11-01.
  12. ^ Tara Reid's thinner appearance

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NAME Reid, Tara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION American actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Wyckoff, New Jersey, United States
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH