Beth Ostrosky Stern (born July 15, 1972)
is an American actress, author, model, and
animal-rights
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activist.
Early life
Stern was born in
Pittsburgh
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,
Pennsylvania
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.
Her mother, Judy (), is a former model and her father, Robert Ostrosky, is a
dentist
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. Stern was raised
Roman Catholic
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. She has two brothers.
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Stern attended Fox Chapel High School in suburban Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania, and took classes for three years at the University of Pittsburgh
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before leaving to pursue a modeling career in New York City
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.
Career
Stern received her first noticeable role as one of the daughters of Ben Stiller's supposed birth parents in the 1996 film '' Flirting with Disaster''. She played a more prominent role four years later in the film '' Whipped'', with Amanda Peet. Stern has also appeared on television, appearing in the final season of G4 show '' Filter'', and the Spike TV
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The channel was o ...
series ''Casino Cinema
''Casino Cinema'' is a Spike programming block hosted by Steve Schirripa and Beth Ostrosky. The show, which was played around the commercial breaks of a film, featured the hosts (plus a guest player) teaching the audience how to play a casino game ...
''.
She has appeared in her own line of calendars, as well as on the covers of several magazines, including three times on '' FHM''. Votes from the readers of ''For Him Magazine'' ("'' FHM''") placed Stern among ''FHMs ''100 Sexiest Women of the Year'' in 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2007( #76). AskMen.com
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History
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placed Stern 96th in its list of the Most Desirable Women for 2007.
In 2010, Stern authored ''Oh My Dog: How to Choose, Train, Groom, Nurture, Feed, and Care for Your New Best Friend'', which reached #5 on '' The New York Times Best Seller list'' of paperback advice books. In 2014, she wrote the children's book ''Yoda: The Story of a Cat and his Kittens'', which tells the story of a Persian cat
The Persian cat (), also known as the Persian longhair, is a long-haired breed of cat characterized by a round face and short muzzle. The first documented ancestors of Persian cats were imported into Italy from Persia around 1620. Widely recog ...
with a heart condition that she and her husband adopted
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. She released a sequel, ''Yoda Gets a Buddy'', the following year. Proceeds from both books went to support Bianca's Furry Friends, a 14,000-square-foot, cage-free animal shelter at the North Shore Animal League
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, named after the couple's deceased bulldog.
Stern hosted the short-lived National Geographic
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reality television show ''Spoiled Rotten Pets'' in 2013. Later that year, she was named as the host of the first annual Kitten Bowl
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, a Super Bowl counterprogramming
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special on the Hallmark Channel which, , has continued to air annually with Stern as a cast member.
Personal life
Radio personality Howard Stern, who is 18 years her senior, proposed to Beth on February 13, 2007, after 7 years of dating. The couple married at Le Cirque
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New York City history
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restaurant in New York City on October 3, 2008, in a ceremony officiated by actor Mark Consuelos. , the Sterns primarily reside in the Town of Southampton on Long Island
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, though they also own homes in Manhattan
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and in Palm Beach, Florida
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.
Beth Stern maintains dedicated "foster rooms" in all three of her residences for cats
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and kittens in need of permanent homes, a project she began in 2013. That same year, she launched a personal Instagram
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account which soon became focused on the animals in her care. , it has more than half a million followers and has helped Stern to facilitate roughly adoptions.
References
External links
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"Beth's Furry Friends"
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1972 births
Living people
Actresses from Pittsburgh
American film actresses
American female models
American television actresses
American television personalities
American women television personalities
University of Pittsburgh alumni
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
American people of Polish descent
People from Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania
American radio DJs
American women radio presenters