Tara Reid

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Tara Reid on Maxim magazine cover in 2002

Tara Reid (born 8 November 1975) is an American actress who has starred in films such as American Pie (1999), American Pie 2 (2001), National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002), and Dr. T & the Women (2000).

Early life

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".

Fame

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) girlfriend in the NBC comedy Scrubs.

Relationship with Carson Daly

Daly appeared as a cameo in Josie and the Pussycats, in which Reid played the Pussycat Melody. The two began a romantic relationship shortly after. In June 2001, Reid and Daly broke off their engagement.

Wardrobe malfunction

On the night of November 4, 2004, Reid was embarrassed by a wardrobe malfunction 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. It took a relatively long amount of time for Reid to notice the malfunction, which led some to suspect that she was inebriated and/or had lost all sensation in her breasts due to surgery. Scar tissue was visible around Reid's nipple, confirming rumors of breast implants. The photographs were widely distributed.[1] In August 2005, she publicly admitted getting breast augmentation plants. [2]

Later career

Taradise, her half-hour television show on the E! network, premiered in September 2005; it was cancelled 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. Taradise was a commercial flop that juxtaposed candid, on-location scenes of a drunken and increasingly chunky Reid, against documentary style commentary scenes of a sober and slimmed down Reid (that were clearly filmed later). Previously during Summer 2005, she was busy shooting Incubus in Romania at an assortment of clubs with Bucharest's local socialites.

Filmography

• A Return to Salem's Lot (1987)
• The Big Lebowski (1998)
• Girl (1998)
• I Woke up Early the Day I Died (1998)
• Urban Legend (1998)
• Cruel Intentions (1999)
• Around the Fire (1999)
• American Pie (1999)
• Body Shots (1999)
• Dr. T & the Women (2000)
• Just Visiting (2001)
• Josie and the Pussycats (2001)
• American Pie 2 (2001)
• National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002)
• Devil's Pond (2003)
• My Boss's Daughter (2003)
• Knots (2004)
• Alone in the Dark (2005)
• Silent Partner (2005)
• The Crow: Wicked Prayer (2005)
• Incubus (2006)
• Land of Canaan (2006)

External links

• Tara Reid at IMDb
• Filming Taradise at Googlepages