Bobbie Jean Brown (born October 7, 1969), sometimes credited as Bobbie Brown-Lane, is an American actress, model, and former
beauty pageant contestant. She appeared in the 1989 videos for
Great White's "
Once Bitten, Twice Shy" and "
House of Broken Love", and in the 1990 video for
Warrant's song "
Cherry Pie".
Early life
Brown was born October 7, 1969, in
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Baton Rouge ( ; , ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It had a population of 227,470 at the 2020 United States census, making it List of municipalities in Louisiana, Louisiana's second-m ...
. She is the oldest child of Bobby Gene and Judy Ann Brown (née Faul).
Brown has three siblings: a brother, a half brother, and a half sister. Her parents divorced when she was a freshman in high school and her mother later remarried. Brown attended high school at Starkey Academy in
Central, Louisiana
Central is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, third largest city in East Baton Rouge Parish, and part of the Baton Rouge metropolitan statistical area. Central had a 2020 census population of 29,565.
History
Long an unincorporated subur ...
.
Career
Brown won the
Miss Louisiana Teen USA 1987 title and represented Louisiana in the
Miss Teen USA 1987 pageant broadcast live from
El Paso, Texas
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in July 1987.
Brown won the spokesmodel competition on ''
Star Search'' a record thirteen times. In 1990, she hosted the syndicated fashion series ''Preview: The Best of the New''. Brown also appeared in TV shows such as ''
Married... with Children'' (three episodes) and films such as 1993's ''
Last Action Hero
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'' in which fellow Miss Teen USA
Bridgette Wilson portrayed
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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's daughter.
Brown worked as a model for
Budweiser
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and other companies. She also appeared in music videos, including
Great White's "
Once Bitten, Twice Shy" and "
House of Broken Love",
Hurricane
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's "I'm On to You", and Louie Louie's "Sittin' in the Lap of Luxury". She is best remembered as the girl in
Warrant's "
Cherry Pie" video released in 1990.
In the late 1990s, she hosted a TV infomercial that advertised the eight-CD set called "Big Rock: The 80s Generation". In 1998, she sued ''
Penthouse'' for featuring a model also named Bobbie Brown. In 2009, Brown wrote and hosted the
VH1 documentary series, "Do It for the Band: Women of the
Sunset Strip".
In 2012, Brown joined the cast of the reality show ''Ex-Wives of Rock'', airing on the
Fuse network. In November 2013, Brown's memoir co-written with
Caroline Ryder and titled ''Dirty Rocker Boys: Love and Lust on the Sunset Strip'', was published by Gallery Books, a division of
Simon & Schuster, Inc. Brown used to run an online clothing store bobbiejeanbrown.net, though the site is currently offline.
In 2016, Brown appeared as Lexxi's mother in ''Live from Lexxi's Mom's Garage'' and also is on the album cover, an acoustic live DVD by
Steel Panther, and also appeared in their music video for "
She's Tight".
Personal life
In her 2013 memoirs, Brown admitted that she was a
cocaine
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and
methamphetamine
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addict for a decade. Brown used the latter to drop weight quickly before modeling shoots. She completed several stints in rehab before finally becoming sober in the 2000s.
Brown also revealed that she suffers from
trichotillomania
Trichotillomania (TTM), also known as hair-pulling disorder or compulsive hair pulling, is a mental disorder characterized by a long-term urge that results in the pulling out of one's own hair. A brief positive feeling may occur as hair is rem ...
, a compulsive hair-pulling disorder, which she developed in 2005 while she was involved in what she called "the worst relationship of my entire life".
During the shooting of Warrant's
"Cherry Pie" video, Brown met lead singer
Jani Lane. Lane and Brown married on July 15, 1991.
They had a daughter, Taylar Jayne Lane, in 1992, and divorced in 1993. After her divorce from Lane, Brown was engaged to
Mötley Crüe
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drummer
Tommy Lee. They broke up in February 1995, as Lee married
Pamela Anderson four days later.
Author
Brown co-wrote an autobiography, ''Dirty Rocker Boys'', with Caroline Ryder which was published in 2013.
Filmography
References
External links
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1969 births
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American businesspeople
Actresses from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
American autobiographers
American businesspeople in fashion
Female models from Louisiana
American film actresses
American memoirists
American television actresses
Living people
20th-century Miss Teen USA delegates
Participants in American reality television series
American women autobiographers
American women memoirists
21st-century American businesswomen