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Yasmine Amanda Bleeth (born June 14, 1968) is an American TV and film actress who was born in New York City. Yasmine, which is pronounced yes-MEEN, is the Arabian version of Jasmin, the name of a flower. As a child, Yasmine was frequently ridiculed for having this unusual name. Her nickname is Yaz or Yazmania.

Yasmine is most famous for her acting role as Caroline Holden on the worldwide-syndicated TV series Baywatch, where she played an always red-swimsuit-clad lifeguard on the Los Angeles County beaches, along with David Hasselhoff, Pamela Anderson, and Alexandra Paul.

Her American father, Philip Bleeth, is Jewish, while her mother, Carina Bleeth (who died of inflammatory breast cancer on November 7, 1989 at the age of 47) was a Pied-noir .

Her mother was a beautiful, successful fashion model, while her father was a successful photographer. They both ran a business that rented vans to fashion photographers for on-location shoots. Her father became Yasmine's business manager .

Yasmine's parents separated, and Yasmine was raised by her mother although she continued seeing both of her parents. Her parents divorced when Yasmine was 18 years old, and her father remarried. He then fathered two sons, Tristan Bleeth (born in 1986) and Miles Bleeth (born in 1988), who are Yasmine's two half-brothers.

Biography

Childhood

Yasmine's earliest known acting role was in a Johnson & Johnson's No More Tears baby shampoo television commercial at age six months at the end of 1968 or the beginning of 1969. At age six, she appeared in a Max Factor cosmetic campaign, along with the model, Cristina Ferrare. Her work in this campaign caught the eye of fashion photographer, Francesco Scavullo, who subsequently included her and her mother, Carina, in his book entitled Scavullo's Women.

Total Film magazine, issue number 21, dated (October 1998), contains a two-page interview with Yasmine Bleeth. In the article Yasmine stated, "When I was a girl I used to have to force boys to kiss me. My toughest friend had to hold them down."

Yasmine attended the United Nations International School in Manhattan, New York, and she received a bilingual (French-English) education since her mother was a French/North African. Although she was very popular among the boys, the girls were frequently beating her up due to jealousy. At one time when Yasmine was 14 years old, she had to be away from school for a few months for her acting career. When she returned to school, she was devastated to learn that the students had been gossiping about her, and how they suggested that she was pregnant, and that was why she was away from school for so long.

On-screen beginnings

Yasmine starred in her first movie at the age of 12. She was cast opposite Buddy Hackett in the feature film Hey Babe!
in 1980. The movie was also known as Babe! and Rise and Shine. While other children were learning musical instruments or were going to ballet lessons, Yasmine was working as a model and actress.

When Yasmine graduated from high school, she had already been working on the soap opera Ryan's Hope since the age of 16. She won the role of Ryan Fenelli and won the hearts of millions on the ABC soap opera. In 1991, staying in the ABC family, she created the role as the sultry, misunderstood Lee Anne Demerest on the highly acclaimed soap opera One Life To Live.

Mother's death

At the tender age of 20, Yasmine tragically lost her mother, Carina, who suffered from inflammatory breast cancer, the deadliest type of breast cancer. According to Yasmine, her mother had always been very healthy and conscientious about not smoking or drinking, and eating right and exercising, etc. Yasmine stated that her mother was the strongest and bravest woman that she ever knew. Carina even traveled up the Amazon River all by herself, spending nights under the stars. She was Yasmine's hero .

Yasmine said that she never accepted the fact that her mother was dying until her mother, Carina, took her very last breath. Just two months after Carina's 47th birthday, her fight with cancer was over.

After Carina died, Yasmine naturally became depressed, and she turned down offers for acting or modeling work for about eight months.

Fiancée

Then she met Ricky Paull Goldin, a soap actor who helped Yasmine with her feelings of depression, and she decided to work on another soap opera, One Life to Live. The two lived in Manhattan, but after Yasmine was cast for Baywatch, she moved to Los Angeles. Yasmine and Ricky Goldin were planning to get married, and the wedding invitations were all made out, but the marriage was called off.

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