Jaime Pressly
Jaime Pressly
Jaime Elizabeth Pressly is an American actress and model. She is best known for playing Joy Turner on the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl, for which she was nominated for two Emmy Awardsas well as a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has also appeared in films such as Poison Ivy: The New Seduction, Joe Dirt, DOA: Dead or Alive, and I Love You, Man...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth30 July 1977
CityKinston, NC
CountryUnited States of America
We're making light of all the serious, politically correct stuff that society has created. Basically, Earl redeems himself (after) the mistakes he has made in judging people.
I know a lot of very rich, very successful, very lonely women in Los Angeles, and I never wanted to be one of them.
I'm blessed with a great memory. To be honest, a lot of times, being on my own at such a young age, my memories were all I had. I didn't have many pictures.
I performed in public for the first time at three years old. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was on a big stage. There were probably three or four hundred people in the audience. We were doing this dance, this Kermit the Frog routine, all of us in our little green leotards.
Being invisible would be pretty great. You could watch everybody, sneak into places and know what people were saying.
If you want to do something, just do it. No one is going to do it for you.
I have worked so hard since I was 15 years old, all because I wanted to be a mom.
Anytime someone has said to me, 'You can't do that,' I have answered, 'Watch me.'
As a dancer, I'd dance with broken toes. Just like acting, you compete with yourself and drive forward. That discipline helped in Hollywood.
It's like the old thing: The parents stay together for the kids, but the kids know that you don't want to be together. The kids would rather you be happy - and separate - than together and miserable. I don't want my kid to grow up around two parents who just don't work.
I used to perform with the Pussycat Dolls before Nicole Scherzinger, before they were a musical group.
I've always had an interest in design, and I have always loved creating things.
I used to go around the country performing. I was in my 20s; I had no fear. But then I had a baby, and all of sudden, your life, your world changes; you change.
Some women just skip having babies or adopt because they don't want to get fat or they haven't put in the time to find a partner. It's great to adopt, but a lot of adoptions are motivated by vanity and laziness.