Gimenez Biography
Jennifer Gimenez is a Model, actor, reality TV personality, and supporter of addiction treatment from the United States. She has been in movies including Blow, Vanilla Sky, The Sweetest Thing, and Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, TV shows like The Bold and the Beautiful and Karen Sisco, and music videos for Tupac Shakur, Babyface, and Mick Jagger.
How old is Gimenez? – Age
Jennifer is 47 years old as of 16 April 2024. She was born in 1977 in United States.
Jennifer Gimenez Family – Education
Despite having been born in the United States, Gimenez, who is of Argentinean origin, lived in Argentina until she returned to the country when she was six years old. Nelida is her mother, while Dwight is her brother. When Gimenez was thirteen years old, photographer Bruce Weber happened to stumble across her as she was spending time with her family at the Santa Monica Pier. By doing this, she assumed the role of stepmother to MacKenzie, Ryan’s daughter, who was there with Gimenez’s mother, Nelida.
Who is Gimenez married to?
In an interview from February 2009, Gimenez said that she was in a relationship with a man who was also in recovery from addiction. Gimenez proposed to her partner Tim Ryan in June 2020. On December 31, 2020, they tied the knot in a quiet ceremony in Beverly Hills.
Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew
Gimenez made an appearance as a model, actress, and recovering addict who gave Pinsky credit for helping her. Gimenez started as a rehab technician at the Pasadena Recovery Center in Season 5 of Rehab, after serving as the manager of the sober living house on the Celebrity Rehab spinoff Sober House.
Rehab with Dr. Drew was the abbreviated title of the sixth season of the television show, which debuted in early 2012 and starred non-celebrities as treatment participants. On September 16, 2012, Season 6 made its debut. Pinsky declared in May 2013 that season six would be the last, citing his growing fatigue with the criticism he was receiving following the deaths of celebrities he treated due to relapses in addiction.
What was Sizemore’s addiction?
Gimenez became her family’s breadwinner by going pro as a model, but this quickly led to pressures like being told to take sick days from school in order to drop weight. She starved herself and worked out for up to five hours to do this, which ultimately resulted in substance misuse. When Gimenez was twelve years old, she had her first drink. However, after she started modeling, she progressed to cocaine. At age 21, she started trying to stop using narcotics, but for the next 13 years, she only had patchy success.
Her sobriety was inconsistent until she was persuaded by her mother and a friend to check herself into Las Encinas Hospital in Pasadena, California, where she was treated by Dr. Drew Pinsky. She arrived expecting to participate in a five-day detox program, but she stayed for nine and a half months instead. She was surprised to learn that she would not be allowed to have sex or be in a relationship for a year after completing her treatment, but she discovered that the 102 pounds she put on after stopping drugs helped her make this decision and gave her the opportunity to, in her own words, “find the inner foundation” that she had been denied when she started working at the age of 14. She claimed to have been sober for “four years and a few months” during her View appearance.
Despite Gimenez’s lack of professional experience in the recovery industry, Drew Pinsky thought Gimenez was a good fit to manage the sober living facility portrayed in Sober House, saying, “People who have recently sober up often run sober houses.” She was a difficult patient who, in my opinion, would have a lot in common with this group. It seemed like the ideal fit to me because she is an actress as well.” Gimenez accepted the offer despite being taken aback by it and feeling awkward about her size on camera, wanting to expedite her own healing.
She dropped a hundred pounds during the first season of the show and went back to being a size 6, having previously been a size 16. She declared her intention to return to acting and made close friends with Andy Dick, a fellow recovering addict. Gimenez has additionally served as a rehab technician at the Pasadena Recovery Center, as shown in the fifth season of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew. She also works as a public speaker with her husband, Tim Ryan, who was featured in the 2017 A&E documentary miniseries Dope Man, about addiction and mental health awareness. She was featured in a Recovery Today Magazine cover story in 2019.
What has happened to Sizemore?
Gimenez was the newest model to feature on an American Elle cover. She has appeared in advertisements for Paul Mitchell, Calvin Klein, Guess, St. John, and Marie Claire, as well as on the covers of magazines including Vogue and Marie Claire. She also worked on international catwalks for fashion houses like Prada, Chanel, Armani, Jean Paul Gaultier, and Carolina Herrera.
She was listed as one of Esquire’s “Women We Love” and Maxim’s “Hot 100” as her reputation as a sex symbol grew. As a result, Mick Jagger, Prince, Tupac Shakur, Lionel Richie, and Babyface all had music videos featuring them. She performed as a model for Forrester Creations on the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful from 1993 to 1997, among her other television acting experiences. Her big screen debut was in Ted Demme’s Blow. She went on to play characters in Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, Vanilla Sky, and Corky Romano.
In addition to her work in Sober House and Celebrity Rehab (see below), she has appeared in reality television on shows like Celebrity Wife Swap, The O’Neal’s Show on OWN, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills on Bravo, Model Latina on SiTV, The View, Today, and E! News, as well as shows on other networks like CNN and HLN.