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BIOGRAPHY

Tara Reid
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Tara Reid, born November 8, 1975, is an American actress and model who has starred in films such as American Pie (1999), American Pie 2 (2001), National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002), and Dr. T & the Women (2000). In 2005, she played the lead in videogame adaptation Alone in the Dark.

Reid was born in Wyckoff, New Jersey, and is of Irish, English, Hungarian, French, and Italian descent. Reid began her career at the age of six in 1982 on the short-lived game show Child's Play. As a child she had roles in a number of commercials for McDonald's, Crayola, and Jell-O. She grew up in New York City, and attended the Professional Children's School alongside such celebrities as Ben Taylor, Jerry O'Connell, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Macaulay Culkin. Reid spent the late 1990s appearing more often on the cover of tabloid magazines than on screen. Her extroverted social life soon gave her a reputation as a party girl — in fact, U.S. magazine In Touch recently voted Reid "top party animal".

Although her breakthrough role was in American Pie in 1999, followers of the 1998 cult film The Big Lebowski already knew her as Bunny Lebowski. She has appeared as J.D.'s (Zach Braff) unfaithful girlfriend in the NBC comedy Scrubs.

On the night of Thursday November 4, 2004, Reid was embarrassed by a wardrobe malfunction at a highly publicized photo shoot at P. Diddy's thirty-fifth birthday party at Cipriani's Restaurant in New York when her dress fell, exposing her left breast. It took a relatively long amount of time for Reid to notice the malfunction, which led some to suspect that she was inebriated. Scar tissue was visible around Reid's nipple, confirming rumors of breast implants. The photographs were widely distributed. In August 2005 she finally admitted having had her breasts augmented.

Her half-hour television show on the E! network, Taradise premiered in September 2005, but was cancelled the following month. The show was an updated incarnation of E!'s popular series called "Wild On," where a celebrity host, or model, traveled to exotic locations to party with locals. Though "Taradise" was a commercial flop, it held a guilty pleasure appeal to many for its candid, on-location scenes of a drunken and increasingly portly Reid, juxtaposed against documentary style commentary scenes of a sober and slimmed down Reid (that were clearly filmed later).