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
I used to perform with the Pussycat Dolls before Nicole Scherzinger, before they were a musical group.
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.
Everything I did and continue to do happens for a reason, and honestly, I don't regret much in my life.
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.
But for me, I prefer to play the more rugged character because it's more real. ... More people can relate to those types of characters, and I like to be able to relate to everybody.
I don't know anybody that has a teenage son or daughter who at some point hasn't been like, 'God, I hate them' just under their breath. It's not meant to be literal. It's funny.
I don't have one specific dream role: I'm an actor, so I want to play everything. In this business, they'll pigeonhole you in two seconds if you're great at the role you play. Everyone assumes that you're really just like that character.
So many Hollywood actresses become successful and then just keep on going - they miss out on having a partner and a baby and end up lonely.
She's such a ballsy broad because she really doesn't know any better. She has no fear, and you never know what's going to come out of her mouth, so she's never boring.
She is the best thing that ever happened to me,
I'm a really good cook. I left home to start my career at 15 - so my choices were to either learn to cook or eat Ramen noodles for the rest of my life.
I have a really great group of fans. I've been very blessed.