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Tara Reid
(born November 8, 1975) is an
American actress and model who
has starred in films such as
American Pie (1999) and Dr. T
& the Women. In 2005, she
played the lead in videogame
adaptation Alone in the Dark.
Reid was
born in Wyckoff, New Jersey, and
is of Irish, English, Hungarian,
French, and Italian descent.
Reid began her career at the age
of six in 1982 on the
short-lived 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 Ben Taylor, Jerry
O'Connell, Sarah Michelle Gellar,
and Macaulay Culkin. 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 recently voted Reid
"top party animal".
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. She has appeared
as J.D.'s (Zach Braff)
unfaithful girlfriend in the NBC
comedy Scrubs.
On the
night of Thursday November 4,
2004, Reid was embarrassed by a
wardrobe malfunction at a highly
publicized photo shoot at P.
Diddy's thirty-fifth birthday
party at Cipriani's Restaurant
in New York when her dress fell,
exposing her left breast. It
took a relatively long amount of
time for Reid to notice the
malfunction, which led some to
suspect that she was inebriated.
Scar tissue was visible around
Reid's nipple, confirming rumors
of breast implants. The
photographs were widely
distributed. In August 2005 she
finally admitted having had her
breasts augmented. [1]
Her
half-hour television show on the
E! network, Taradise premiered
in September 2005, but was
cancelled the following month.
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