Carmen Electra

Carmen Electra (birth name Tara Leigh Patrick) was born on April 20, 1972 in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is an American model, television personality, actress and singer. Her family is of Irish, German, and Native American (Cherokee) descent. She attended Princeton High School for four years in Sharonville, a suburb of Cincinnati. She is not related to adult film actress Tera Patrick, who’s birth name is Linda Hopkins Shapiro.
She lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota and worked for Target Corporation , before moving to Los Angeles in 1991. After moving to California she met the singer Prince
(a Minneapolis native), who persuaded her to change her name to Carmen Electra. Soon after, she signed a recording contract with Paisley Park Records, Prince’s company, marking the start of a short-lived singing career. In 1995, before moving to Los Angeles in 1991, started appearing in various television programs. Then in May of 1996 she appeared in Playboy magazine. This led to an increasing role as a television personality on various shows, including regular roles on Baywatch and MTV’s Singled Out.