Amber Smith

At 53 years old, Amber Smith has this physical status:

Amber Lee Smith (born March 2, 1971) is an American actress and former model.

Early life

Amber Smith is the daughter of Carol Smith. 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. 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.

Personal life

In a January 2010 TV Guide story on Celebrity Rehab, Dr. Drew Pinsky stated she was living with her mother in Los Angeles, and "doing stupendous work...She's someone who reaches out and is an inspiration and of service to other patients."

Smith's name surfaced in connection with the January 2008 bankruptcy of the entertainment payroll firm Axium. A lawsuit alleged the company's partners misused funds by renting a Los Angeles, California apartment for Smith, paying for her car and issuing "numerous large payments" to Smith, which they explained by calling her a "consultant" to the company.

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Career

By age 16, Smith began modeling. She was signed by Irene Marie Models in Miami Beach as a child and then moved to Paris, France, where she spent four years as a model throughout Europe. Rita Hayworth, a 1940s and 1950s movie actress, was given a huge resemblance to her naturally blonde hair, bringing her close to 1940s and 1950s film star Rita Hayworth. Smith appeared in back-to-back issues of the 1993 & 1994 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, as the first Vargas Girl of Esquire magazine. She was also the first model of the Wonderbra campaign. She later posed for photographer Helmut Newton for a Wolford advertising campaign, and she was the model for Venus Victoria's 2002 lingerie campaign, Victoria's Secret's European sister company to Victoria's Secret.

Smith has appeared on the front pages of fashion, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, MAX (Australian and French editions) and YM. She was the cover girl for Playboy's March 1995 issue. Clifford Wright of Maxim' and Ocean Drive took her picture for Maxim' and Ocean Drive. She has appeared in advertisements for L'Oréal makeup, Buffalo Jeans, Camel cigarettes, Kahl's, Kahl's, Volkswagen cars, and Panama Jack, among other things, and she has appeared on runways for such fashion designers as Chanel and Jean Paul Gaultier.

Smith was cast in Paul Mazursky's Faithful in his first film role, relying on a Robert De Niro referral that resulted from her Casino auditions. She appeared in The Funeral, directed by Abel Ferrara, and Barbra Stroben's The Mirror Has Two Faces. In Curtis Hanson's L.A., Susan Lefferts, a Rita Hayworth lookalike, played Susan Lefferts, a Rita Hayworth lookalike. Confidential. Smith's resemblance to Hayworth came into play once more in HBO's cable television film The Rat Pack. She was also a part of American Beauty. Her most notable role to date has been as the star of Cinemax's Sin City Diaries, which debuted in 2007. She played Angelica, a Las Vegas entertainment consultant who organizes casino excursions for casinos' high-roller visitors.

Smith appeared as a cast member on the second season of the VH1 television series Celebrity Rehab, which depicted her 16-year battle with opium and alcohol use. She appeared in Sober House, a Celebrity Rehab spin-off focusing on a sober lifestyle. She appeared in the VH1 series Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew the same year. She spoke about her addictions and codependency, which began when Smith was a child, and how her encounters with date rape and prostitution aided in those addictions.

Smith and other members of Celebrity Rehab appeared on a new group of addicts at the Pasadena Recovery Center in the same year. In the third-season episode "Triggers," she appeared, marking a year and a half of sobriety for her.

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