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Name: | Gena Lee Nolin |
Born: | November 29, 1971 |
Occupation: | Actress, Model, Author |
Years active: | 1994-present |
Known for: | Appearing on Baywatch. |
Gena Lee Nolin (born November 29, 1971 in Duluth, Minnesota) is an American actress and model. She is best known for her television appearances on The Price Is Right and Baywatch in the 1990s; and for two years was the star of her own series called Sheena.
Career[]
In 1994, she became one of Barker's Beauties on the game show, The Price is Right. Soon afterwards, Nolin appeared in the soap opera The Young and the Restless as a model named Sandy.
In 1995, Nolin starred in her breakthrough role as Neely Capshaw in the television series Baywatch (becoming the second actress to play the controversial character, who was originally created to appear as a one-episode part). Later in the year, Nolin began modelling, for the first time since her pregnancy, for Maxim. In 1998, Nolin quit Baywatch and started her own show, Sheena, in 2000. In 2001, Nolin posed nude for the Christmas edition of Playboy after being offered several times by Hugh Hefner.
Personal life[]
She married Greg Fahlman on November 27, 1993, and they have a son named Spencer. In 2001, Nolin divorced Fahlman and married NHL hockey player Cale Hulse in 2004. They have two children: son Hudson Lee Hulse (born 2006) and Stella Monroe Hulse (born 2008).[1] Shortly after the birth of her first child, Nolin was misdiagnosed and treated for postnatal depression. She suffered greater symptoms during her second pregnancy, and then suffered arrhythmia during her third. A thyroxine level check within a blood test found a low level, and she was immediately diagnosed with Hashimoto's thyroiditis. Nolin now campaigns for regular thyroid gland checks and blood tests.[2]