Beth Ostrosky Stern (born July 15, 1972) is an American actress, author, model, and

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activist.

Early life

Stern was born in

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. Her mother, Judy (), is a former model and her father, Robert Ostrosky, is a

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. Stern was raised

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. She has two brothers.Bio
/ref> Stern attended Fox Chapel High School in suburban

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, and took classes for three years at the

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before leaving to pursue a modeling career in

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Career

Stern received her first noticeable role as one of the daughters of

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'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

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. Stern has also appeared on television, appearing in the final season of G4 show ''

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'', and the

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series '' Casino Cinema''. She has appeared in her own line of calendars, as well as on the covers of several magazines, including three times on ''

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''. Votes from the readers of ''For Him Magazine'' ("''

''") placed Stern among ''FHMs ''100 Sexiest Women of the Year'' in 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2007( #76).

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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 ''

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'' of paperback advice books. In 2014, she wrote the

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''Yoda: The Story of a Cat and his Kittens'', which tells the story of a

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with a heart condition that she and her husband adopted. She released a

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, ''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, named after the couple's deceased

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''Spoiled Rotten Pets'' in 2013. Later that year, she was named as the host of the first annual

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, a

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special on

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which, , has continued to air annually with Stern as a

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Personal life

Radio personality

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, who is 18 years her senior, proposed to Beth on February 13, 2007, after 7 years of dating. The couple married at

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restaurant in New York City on October 3, 2008, in a ceremony officiated by actor

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. , the Sterns primarily reside in the Town of Southampton on

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, though they also own homes in

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and in

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. Beth Stern maintains dedicated "foster rooms" in all three of her residences for

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and kittens in need of permanent homes, a project she began in 2013. That same year, she launched a personal

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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"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Stern, Beth 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