Cindy Margolis
Cynthia Dawn "Cindy" Margolis (born October 1, 1965[1]) is an American glamour spokesmodel and actress.
Early life
Margolis was born in Los Angeles, California of Jewish heritage.[2] According to an interview in Playboy, her career began with a business class project on greeting cards at California State University, Northridge, where she produced cards with a photograph of herself wearing lingerie and including her phone number.[3] Her modeling career took off when agents started asking about the woman on the cards. She has modeled in advertising for companies such as Reebok, Vidal Sassoon, Coors, Frederick's of Hollywood, Hanes, and Sunkist. She was Miss Makita Power Tools 1986 and did appearances at woodworking trade shows.
Personal life
Margolis is married to restaurateur Guy Starkman. Following in-vitro fertility treatment, she gave birth to a son Nicholas Isaac in 2002. Twin daughters Sabrina and Sierra were born in 2005 via a surrogate mother.
Career
Among late night television viewers, she is best known as an infomercial co-presenter including work with Tony Robbins and Don Lapre. Margolis also appeared briefly as one of Barker's Beauties in 1995 on the game show The Price Is Right. She was a sexy, killer fembot in the movie Austin Powers. She had a late night Saturday talk show in 2000 called The Cindy Margolis Show, which was filmed in Miami Beach.
Margolis emerged as a star in the early days of the Internet. She was named Yahoo! Internet Life magazine's "Queen of the Internet" from 1996-1999. She also found her way into the 2000 Guinness Book of World Records as a result of being the "most downloaded" person in 1999 – a statistic that has no way of being accurately measured. At the age of 34, the peak of her popularity, she was downloaded 70,000 times in a span of 24 hours.
In November 2005, Margolis teamed up with the World Poker Tour to become the new hostess for Chipleaders. In an April 2006 interview with The Washington Post, Margolis discussed her nude photo session for the December 2006 issue of Playboy, saying that she had posed for Playboy many times in the past, but never full frontal nude. She cited her good looks at age 40 and wanting to be an inspiration to mothers and women her age as the reason she chose to finally pose nude. "It will be fun to go up against the 20-year-olds and show them that they don't have anything on me!" she told the AP. In an interview with EXTRA she said that Desperate Housewives had been an inspiration for her as it showed that mothers her age can also be fit and sexy. Margolis' nude pictorial was published in the December 2006 issue of Playboy. A portion of the proceeds from issues sold will go to a charity for which Margolis is a spokesperson, Resolve. The charity aims to get fertility treatment better covered by insurance companies.[3]
A portion of the sales of her issue went to her charity, the Cindy Margolis Get a Download of This Fertility Fund.[3] She was very proud to have posed, stating:
Me, of all people, the ultimate girl next door, the one who made it by not taking off her clothes. And now my crowning achievement is doing Playboy and being comfortable in my own skin.[3]
In spring 2006, Margolis was winner of NBC's Celebrity Cooking Showdown. She teamed up with renowed celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck to win both the first round and the final round. In November of 2006, Margolis signed an exclusive poker representation agreement with Tropical Poker. Margolis has become a highly sought-after poker player and will represent Tropical Poker in the press, media interviews, poker events and appearances, as well as at the 2007 World Series of Poker.
Filmography
- Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) .... Fembot
- Ally McBeal (1997) .... Herself
- Chairman of the Board (1998) .... Tennis Instructor
- The Cindy Margolis Show (2000) TV Series .... Host
- Sol Goode (2001) .... Angie
- Dead Above Ground (2002) .... Kari McClure Mallory
Appearances in Playboy special editions
- Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 23 January 1992
- Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 24 March 1992 (cover)
- Playboy's Bathing Beauties April 1992
- Playboy's Girls of Summer '92 June 1992
- Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 26 July 1992
- Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 27 September 1992
- Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 28 November 1992
- Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 29 January 1993
- Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 31 May 1993
- Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 35 January 1994
- Playboy's Bathing Beauties March 1994 (page 72)
- Playboy's Book of Lingerie Vol. 37 May 1994
- Playboy's Sexy 100 February 2003
- Playboy's Sexy 100 May 2007 Cover Model
References
- ^ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15497232/from/RS.4/print/1/displaymode/1098 per MSNBC which contacted her Cali birth record; though she claims 66
- ^ Nate Bloom, "Celebrity Jews", j.: the Jewish News Weekly of Northern California, May 5, 2006. Accessed 2007-05-08.
- ^ a b c d "Desperately Seeking Cindy", Playboy, December 2006
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