Amber Smith

Amber Smith
Smith at the Big Apple Summer Sizzler in Manhattan, June 13, 2009
Modeling information
Height	5 ft 10.5 in (179 cm)[1]

Amber Smith is an American actress and former model.

Early life

Amber Smith is the daughter of Carol Smith.^[2] During her 2008 and 2009 appearances on the reality television programs in which she sought treatment by Dr. Drew Pinsky for addiction, she stated that both her father and mother had long histories with addiction.^[3] In the third episode of Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew, she stated that her father died as a result of a drinking problem, and that while he was absent during much of her childhood, she was still devastated by his death.^[4]

Career

Modeling

Smith started modeling by age 16. As a teenager she was represented by Irene Marie Models^[5] in Miami Beach and traveled to Paris, France, where she worked as a model throughout Europe for four years. Her breakthrough came when her naturally blonde hair was dyed red, giving her a strong resemblance to 1940s and '50s movie star Rita Hayworth.^[6] Smith appeared in back-to-back issues of the 1993 & 1994 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, and became Esquire magazine's first Vargas Girl of the 1990s. She also became the first model of the Wonderbra campaign. She later posed for photographer Helmut Newton for a Wolford advertising campaign, and was the model for the 2002 lingerie campaign for Venus Victoria, the European sister company to Victoria's Secret.^[7]

Smith has appeared on the covers of the

That same year, Smith and other alumni of Celebrity Rehab appeared as panel speakers to a new group of addicts at the Pasadena Recovery Center. Her appearance, which marked a year and a half of sobriety for her, was aired in the third-season episode "Triggers".[10]

Personal life

In a January 2010