Carmen Electra

Carmen Electra was born on April 20, 1972 at Cincinnati, Ohio. Her real name is Tara Leigh Patrick. Carmen's talents were evident when she was a little girl.

Only at the age of nine, she was selected for her School's Creative and Performing Arts. In school, Carmen started to take singing lessons and began practicing her vocal talents. She was performing in musicals as a dancer and doing her own choreographies by the time she was a teenager. Her ultimate passion was to eventually go to Los Angeles and sign a deal. Carmen was on her way to fulfill her dream at the age of only 15.

To fulfill her dreams she moved to Minneapolis to stay with her sister and half sister. There she made her living by working as a clothes model for Target department stores. After four years she moved to L.A., changed her name to Carmen Electra. One week after that Carmen met musical talent, Prince. Prince liked the style and appearance of Carmen, so he signed her to a Paisley Park Records label deal in the year 1992. But despite all his efforts in helping Carmen by promoting her and her new album, her first album was a failure. The video 'Go-Go Dancer' was rarely seen on MTV and when the '12' single was released in June 1992; it didn't sell well at all. Three years later in the year 1995 Carmen reinvented herself by appearing on the Nickelodeon show entitled 'ALL THAT'. In March of 1996, Carmen's most important and electrifying move was her posing nude for Playboy. She also appeared in a Play boy video entitled 'Play boy Cheerleaders', in which she sings the show stopper ‘2-4-6-8' thus showing her musical talents. Also in the same year Carmen hosted MTV's Loveline. A couple of months later, on October 4, 1996, Lisa Berger who was MTV's senior vice president of original programming at that time announced that Carmen was selected for the MTV show 'Singled Out' replacing Jenny McCarthy and the deal was at least for 65 episodes. But unfortunately Carmen's popularity was not that of Jenny's and the show eventually failed.

After that announcement was made there was more to come for Carmen. She was later signed on to replace Pamela Anderson on Baywatch as the Baywatch team could not ignore a sexy and beautiful woman like Carmen. Then she has appeared in a comic book, then as a national spokesperson for Budweiser beer and also appeared in the 2000 sleeper comedy hit of the year 'Scary Movie'. As far her personal life goes her relationship with Dennis Rodman has become a talking point for tabloids as well as the rest of the media. Carmen and Dennis Rodman eventually got married in the year 1997 and got separated only seven days later. Rodman claimed that he wasn't in a right state of mind at that time. Later the two was arrested for fighting in a hotel, but despite of all this rumors the two still remain together. Carmen is further linked to Tommy Lee, Cypress Hill's B-Real (separated) and Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst and Prince (musician).

Carmen at presents resides in Los Angeles, and she is definitely working hard for her next venture.