CINDY MARGOLIS
Name: Cindy Margolis
Born: 1 October 1965 Los Angeles, California
Cynthia Dawn "Cindy" Margolis (born October 1, 1965) is an American glamour
spokesmodel and actress.
Margolis was born in Los Angeles, California of Jewish heritage. According to
an interview in Playboy, her career began with a business class project on
greeting cards at California State University, Northridge, where she produced
cards with a photograph of herself wearing lingerie and including her phone
number. Her modeling career took off when agents started asking about the
woman on the cards. She has modeled in advertising for companies such as Reebok,
Vidal Sassoon, Coors, Frederick's of Hollywood, Hanes, and Sunkist. She was Miss
Makita Power Tools 1986 and did appearances at woodworking trade shows.
Margolis is married to restaurateur Guy Starkman. Following in-vitro fertility
treatment, she gave birth to a son Nicholas Isaac in 2002. Twin daughters
Sabrina and Sierra were born in 2005 via a surrogate mother.
Among late night television viewers, she is best known as an infomercial co-presenter
including work with Tony Robbins and Don Lapre. Margolis also appeared briefly
as one of Barker's Beauties in 1995 on the game show The Price Is Right. She was
a sexy, killer fembot in the movie Austin Powers. She had a late night Saturday
talk show in 2000 called The Cindy Margolis Show, which was filmed in Miami
Beach.
Margolis emerged as a star in the early days of the Internet. She was named
Yahoo! Internet Life magazine's "Queen of the Internet" from 1996-1999. She also
found her way into the 2000 Guinness Book of World Records as a result of being
the "most downloaded" person in 1999 – a statistic that has no way of being
accurately measured. At the age of 34, the peak of her popularity, she was
downloaded 70,000 times in a span of 24 hours.
In November 2005, Margolis teamed up with the World Poker Tour to become the new
hostess for Chipleaders. In an April 2006 interview with The Washington Post,
Margolis discussed her nude photo session for the December 2006 issue of Playboy,
saying that she had posed for Playboy many times in the past, but never full
frontal nude. She cited her good looks at age 40 and wanting to be an
inspiration to mothers and women her age as the reason she chose to finally pose
nude. "It will be fun to go up against the 20-year-olds and show them that they
don't have anything on me!" she told the AP. In an interview with EXTRA she said
that Desperate Housewives had been an inspiration for her as it showed that
mothers her age can also be fit and sexy. Margolis' nude pictorial was published
in the December 2006 issue of Playboy. A portion of the proceeds from issues
sold will go to a charity for which Margolis is a spokesperson, Resolve. The
charity aims to get fertility treatment better covered by insurance companies.
A portion of the sales of her issue went to her charity, the Cindy Margolis Get
a Download of This Fertility Fund. She was very proud to have posed, stating:
Me, of all people, the ultimate girl next door, the one who made it by not
taking off her clothes. And now my crowning achievement is doing Playboy and
being comfortable in my own skin.
In spring 2006, Margolis was winner of NBC's Celebrity Cooking Showdown. She
teamed up with renowed celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck to win both the first round
and the final round. In November of 2006, Margolis signed an exclusive poker
representation agreement with Tropical Poker. Margolis has become a highly
sought-after poker player and will represent Tropical Poker in the press, media
interviews, poker events and appearances, as well as at the 2007 World Series of
Poker.
Name: Cindy Margolis
Born: 1 October 1965 Los Angeles, California
Cynthia Dawn "Cindy" Margolis (born October 1, 1965) is an American glamour
spokesmodel and actress.
Margolis was born in Los Angeles, California of Jewish heritage. According to
an interview in Playboy, her career began with a business class project on
greeting cards at California State University, Northridge, where she produced
cards with a photograph of herself wearing lingerie and including her phone
number. Her modeling career took off when agents started asking about the
woman on the cards. She has modeled in advertising for companies such as Reebok,
Vidal Sassoon, Coors, Frederick's of Hollywood, Hanes, and Sunkist. She was Miss
Makita Power Tools 1986 and did appearances at woodworking trade shows.
Margolis is married to restaurateur Guy Starkman. Following in-vitro fertility
treatment, she gave birth to a son Nicholas Isaac in 2002. Twin daughters
Sabrina and Sierra were born in 2005 via a surrogate mother.
Among late night television viewers, she is best known as an infomercial co-presenter
including work with Tony Robbins and Don Lapre. Margolis also appeared briefly
as one of Barker's Beauties in 1995 on the game show The Price Is Right. She was
a sexy, killer fembot in the movie Austin Powers. She had a late night Saturday
talk show in 2000 called The Cindy Margolis Show, which was filmed in Miami
Beach.
Margolis emerged as a star in the early days of the Internet. She was named
Yahoo! Internet Life magazine's "Queen of the Internet" from 1996-1999. She also
found her way into the 2000 Guinness Book of World Records as a result of being
the "most downloaded" person in 1999 – a statistic that has no way of being
accurately measured. At the age of 34, the peak of her popularity, she was
downloaded 70,000 times in a span of 24 hours.
In November 2005, Margolis teamed up with the World Poker Tour to become the new
hostess for Chipleaders. In an April 2006 interview with The Washington Post,
Margolis discussed her nude photo session for the December 2006 issue of Playboy,
saying that she had posed for Playboy many times in the past, but never full
frontal nude. She cited her good looks at age 40 and wanting to be an
inspiration to mothers and women her age as the reason she chose to finally pose
nude. "It will be fun to go up against the 20-year-olds and show them that they
don't have anything on me!" she told the AP. In an interview with EXTRA she said
that Desperate Housewives had been an inspiration for her as it showed that
mothers her age can also be fit and sexy. Margolis' nude pictorial was published
in the December 2006 issue of Playboy. A portion of the proceeds from issues
sold will go to a charity for which Margolis is a spokesperson, Resolve. The
charity aims to get fertility treatment better covered by insurance companies.
A portion of the sales of her issue went to her charity, the Cindy Margolis Get
a Download of This Fertility Fund. She was very proud to have posed, stating:
Me, of all people, the ultimate girl next door, the one who made it by not
taking off her clothes. And now my crowning achievement is doing Playboy and
being comfortable in my own skin.
In spring 2006, Margolis was winner of NBC's Celebrity Cooking Showdown. She
teamed up with renowed celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck to win both the first round
and the final round. In November of 2006, Margolis signed an exclusive poker
representation agreement with Tropical Poker. Margolis has become a highly
sought-after poker player and will represent Tropical Poker in the press, media
interviews, poker events and appearances, as well as at the 2007 World Series of
Poker.