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Carmen Electra was born on April 20, 1972 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Her birth name is Tara Leigh Patrick.

At the age of nine, Carmen was selected for the School for Creative and Performing Arts. While studying there, she took singing lessons, and by her teenage years, she was dancing in musicals and doing her own choreographing for the school's theater. Carmen's goal was to eventually make it out to Los Angeles and get a recording contract. She moved to Minneapolis to stay with her sisters, and began modeling for the Target department stores.

Four years later, Carmen moved to L.A. Soon after, she met the celebrity star performer known as Prince. For all practical purposes, she had just been discovered. In 1992, after auditioning for Prince, Carmen was signed to his Paisley Park Records label. Despite the fact that Prince took her under his wing, her first album was a dud. Carmen reinvented herself and appeared on the Nickelodeon show, "ALL THAT". Carmen's career was in danger of vanishing, so she made her clothes disappear instead. In March of 1996, Carmen took a huge step forward and posed nude for Playboy. She also performed in a video for Playboy, in which she sings the show stopper, "2-4-6-8".

Carmen hosted MTV's "Loveline", and following this performance, on October 4, 1996, Lisa Berger, MTV's senior vice president announced that Carmen had been selected to replace Jenny McCarthy on MTV's innovative show, "Singled Out". In March 1997, Carmen appears in cartoon form as the model for a character who's a singer and a vampire in a comic book series called Embra.

Carmen, now a red hot sexy celebrity, signed on to replace Pamela Anderson on "Baywatch". She also landed a role on the short-lived "Hyperion Bay". Carmen has also appeared as a national spokesperson for Budweiser and recently filmed a small role in the independent feature "Dust and Stardust", a movie about making it in Hollywood.

In recent times, Carmen Electra has been in-and-out of the papers as they document her crazy relationship with Dennis Rodman. The two were married in a quickie marriage in Las Vegas while he was drunk. Carmen is constantly on the tabloid pages, mostly for her on again-off again, married, divorced, annulled, or just dating relationship with basketball's bad boy.