Carmen Electra, from '90s icon to surviving in the adult digital environment
She was born in 1972 in Sharonville, a small town in Ohio, with the name Tara Leigh Patrick on April 20.
Before becoming famous as an actress, she dabbled in the music industry, mentored by none other than Prince, who came up with "Carmen Electra" as a stage name and produced her debut album in 1993, released with the singles "Go Go Dancer" and "Everybody Get on Up."
Electra, however, would become famous a few years later, when in 1997 she played lifeguard Lari McKenzie in Baywatch . Like Pamela Anderson , this, combined with her appearances in Playboy magazine , made her a sex symbol of the decade, and an added resource in numerous productions such as Almost 300 or Scary Movie .
In addition to films and series, she has also appeared on various television programs, such as Singles Out on MTV or Britain's Got Talent , where she was a guest judge.
We could almost say that Electra is a broken toy, if it weren't for the fact that she has always found a way to move forward.
She has been married twice, to basketball player Dennis Rodman and musician Dave Navarro, and has founded a wide variety of businesses, from pole dancing bars to a skincare line called GOGO Skincare, launched in 2021.
At just turned fifty-three, the model, singer, and actress, despite all her ventures, lives off the financial gain that comes from the sexualization of her image, just like in the 1990s.
In 2022, outlets such as Entertainment Weekly reported that the actress had opened an account on a popular platform for exclusive personal adult content after discovering, as she herself reported, that the most-visited website in the porn industry had nearly two million searches for her name. She told Fox News Digital:
I've had a great time taking photos, recording videos, and letting my fans follow me wherever I go on these life journeys. That's exactly what I wanted to do.
Already directing almost all of her professional efforts toward adult content, the film industry that hypersexualized her in the 1990s now seems to be ostracizing her for the same reason. Leigh's career is increasingly diverging from the music and acting she once pursued, and with her acting career increasingly stagnant and forgotten, she only has a B-movie project on the horizon.
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