Karen Duffy

Karen Duffy

Infobox actor
name = Karen Duffy


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birthdate = birth date and age|1961|5|23|mf=yes
birthplace = New York City

Karen Duffy (born May 23, 1961) is an American model, television personality, and actress.

Biography

Early life

Duffy was born in New York City, the daughter of Carol, a homemaker, and Phil Duffy, a developer. [ [http://www.filmreference.com/film/60/Karen-Duffy.html Karen Duffy Biography (1962-) ] ] She attended Park Ridge High School in Park Ridge, New Jersey, graduating in 1979. She received a bachelors degree in recreational therapy from the University of Colorado.

Film and television career

By 1989, she was modeling and appearing in television commercials and would become a VJ for MTV in the early 1990s as "Duff." Since then she has had small roles in a handful of films including "Dumb & Dumber", and by 1999 she was working as a correspondent for controversial documentary film-maker Michael Moore on his television shows "TV Nation" and "The Awful Truth". Duffy currently hosts "House of Tiny Terrors" on TLC. [ [http://tlc.discovery.com/fansites/tiny-terrors/tiny-terrors.html TLC :: The House of Tiny Terrors ] ]

On July 7, 2007, she appeared on the Live Earth telecast on the Bravo Channel as a co-host at Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States.

Personal life

Duffy was leading a relatively carefree youth in the heyday of her modeling career, partying with movie star friends such as George Clooney, when in 1995 she was diagnosed with the relatively rare disease sarcoidosis. In her case, this affected her brain (neurosarcoidosis), leaving her partially paralysed. She has so far battled it with a sense of humor, as is evident from her 2000 autobiography "Model Patient: My Life As an Incurable Wise-Ass". She has explained, "I tried to write a book not for sick people, but for people with a sick sense of humor ... [this] is not a typical book about illness."

After the diagnosis she continued to model for Revlon and married John Lambros in 1997. They have since had a son named is Jack "Lefty" Lambros.

elected filmography

*"Dumb & Dumber" (1994)
*"Blank Check" (1994)
*"Celebrity" (1998)

Bibliography

*Karen Duffy. "Model Patient: My Life As an Incurable Wise-Ass". 2001. ISBN 0-06-095727-1.
*Karen Duffy. "A Slob in the Kitchen". 2004. ISBN 1400051150.

References

External links

*
* [http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/09/19/hln.bio.karen.duffy/ "Former MTV VJ tells of battle with chronic illness"] , by Kat Carney. September 19, 2003, CNN.com.
* [http://www.courttv.com/onair/shows/hollywoodatlarge/duffy.html COURTTV.COM ONAIR]
* [http://www.bravotv.com/Live_Earth/bios/karen_duffy.php Bravo TV Live Earth Bio]


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