- Karen Duffy
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name = Karen Duffy
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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 attendedPark Ridge High School inPark 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-makerMichael 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 atGiants 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 diseasesarcoidosis . 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
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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
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* [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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