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Karen Duffy (born May 23, 1962) is an American model turned actress.
Born in New York city she attended Park Ridge High School in New Jersey until she graduated in 1979. She followed this up with bachelor's degree in Recreational Therapy from the University of Colorado. By 1989 she was modeling and appearing in television commercials and would become a presenter for MTV in the early 1990s. Since then she has had small roles in a handful of films including Dumb & Dumber, and by 1999 she was working as a correspondent for controversial documentary film-maker
Michael Moore on his Television shows TV Nation
and The Awful Truth.
She led a relatively carefree youth in the heydays of her modelling career partying with movie star friends such as
George Clooney when in 1995 she was diagnosed with the relatively rare disease sarcoidosis. In her case, this affected her brain (neurosarcoidosis), leaving her partially paralysed but she has so far battled it with a sense of humour, evident in her 2000 Autobiography
Model Patient: My Life As an Incurable Wise-Ass. She has explained "I tried to write a book not for sick people, but for people with a sick sense of humor," and is considered not a typical book about illness.
After the diagnosis she continued to model for Revlon and married John Lambros in 1997. She has since had a son.
- Dumb & Dumber (1994)
- Celebrity (1998)
- Karen Duffy. Model Patient: My Life As an Incurable Wise-Ass. 2001. ISBN 0060957271.
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