Jennifer Gimenez
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Jennifer Gimenez is an American model, actress, reality television personality, and addiction recovery advocate. She has appeared in music videos for Tupac Shakur, Babyface and Mick Jagger, in films such as Blow, Vanilla Sky, The Sweetest Thing, and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, and on TV shows such as The Bold and the Beautiful and Karen Sisco. She ranked 77 on Maxim magazine's 2001 Hot 100 list.[1]
She has appeared as the sober living House Manager for the VH1 reality television series, Sober House,[2][3] a spinoff of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, on which she has appeared as a rehab technician at the Pasadena Recovery Center.[4] She has also made guest appearances in the first five seasons of Bravo's The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
Early life
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Career
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Addiction and sobriety
In becoming a professional model, Gimenez became her family's provider,[10] though this soon brought pressures, such as being encouraged to take sick days from school in order to lose weight. She also spent up to five hours at the gym and starved herself in order to accomplish this, and this eventually led to substance abuse.[9]
Gimenez took her first drink at age 12, but eventually graduated to cocaine after she became a model. She began trying to quit drugs at age 21,[9] but achieved only intermittent success over the course of the next 13 years.[10] The sporadic nature of her sobriety changed when her mother and a friend convinced her to go to Las Encinas Hospital in Pasadena, California, where she came under the care of Dr. Drew Pinsky. Although she checked in for a five-day detox program, she ended up staying for nine and a half months.[9] After finishing her treatment, she was taken aback when instructed to abstain from sex and relationships for a year, though she found that the 102 pounds she gained after quitting drugs facilitated this resolution, and allowed her to, as she put it, "find the inner foundation" that she had been denied when she became a working professional at age 14. During her View appearance, she stated that she was sober for "four years and a few months".[10]
Though Gimenez had never worked professionally in recovery, Drew Pinsky felt she was well-suited to the task of running the
Gimenez has also worked as a rehab technician at the Pasadena Recovery Center, as seen on Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, beginning with that show's fifth season.[4]
She also works as a public speaker on the subject of substance abuse and mental health awareness with her husband, Tim Ryan, who was the subject of A&E's 2017 documentary miniseries on addiction, Dope Man.[7][8] In 2019 she appeared in a cover story of Recovery Today Magazine.[5]
Personal life
Gimenez stated in a February 2009 interview that she was in relationship, and that her boyfriend was also a recovering addict.[9]
In June 2020 Gimenez became engaged to her partner, Tim Ryan. They married on December 31, 2020[7] in a private Beverly Hills ceremony.[8] In so doing, she became the stepmother of Ryan's daughter, MacKenzie, who was in attendance with Gimenez's mother, Nelida.[7][8]
References
- ^ "The 2001 Hot 100 List". Maxim. April 16, 2009
- ^ "Sober House 2 With Dr. Drew – Peep the Cast" Archived 2010-03-03 at the Wayback Machine. VH1. February 25, 2010
- ^ Gimenez, Jennifer (March 29, 2010). "Sunday, March 28th. Journal". Archived from the original on April 23, 2010. Retrieved March 30, 2010.
I do not run a sober living home or work in recovery in my daily life...I was brought in because of my recovery and that Ive been where these people have been...
- ^ a b "Intake Sneak Premiere". Season 5, Episode 1, VH1. accessed June 22, 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Bar, Candice (March 15, 2021). "A Luxe Life Interview with Jennifer Gimenez". Luxe Life. p. 9 - 19. Archived from the original on January 19, 2023. Retrieved January 19, 2023 – via Issuu.
- ^ a b c "Bio" Archived 2020-04-11 at the Wayback Machine. JennGimenez.com. accessed March 6, 2010
- ^ a b c d e f Clifford, Kambra (January 2, 2020). "The Bold and the Beautiful actress Jennifer Gimenez tied the knot on New Year's Eve". soapcentral.com. Archived from the original on January 19, 2023. Retrieved January 19, 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f Seemayer, Zach (December 31, 2019). "Jennifer Gimenez Marries Tim Ryan In Private Beverly Hills Ceremony on New Year's Eve (Exclusive)". Entertainment Tonight. Archived from the original on January 19, 2023. Retrieved January 19, 2023.
- ^ Laist. Archivedfrom the original on January 27, 2013.
- ^ The View, ABC, March 17, 2010
External links
- Official website
- Jennifer Gimenez at IMDb
- Podcast Interview Archived 2011-05-04 at the Wayback Machine