Jaime Pressly
Jaime Pressly
Jaime Elizabeth Pressly is an American actress and model. She is best known for playing Joy Turner on the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl, for which she was nominated for two Emmy Awardsas well as a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has also appeared in films such as Poison Ivy: The New Seduction, Joe Dirt, DOA: Dead or Alive, and I Love You, Man...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth30 July 1977
CityKinston, NC
CountryUnited States of America
I do think being a prissy tomboy helps me in raising a son in general. I wrestle with him, play ball, play in the sandbox with him. As a mom, you get bruises, scrapes on your knee.
It's like the old thing: The parents stay together for the kids, but the kids know that you don't want to be together. The kids would rather you be happy - and separate - than together and miserable. I don't want my kid to grow up around two parents who just don't work.
The truth is, working on single camera, show or film, you have no life. You work 60-80 hours a week. You're up before your kid gets up, and you're home when they go to sleep.
I was emancipated at 15 and off to Japan on a contract working. I felt for my parents. I apologized profusely years later, but I was just very strong-willed and strong-minded and had my own idea - thought outside of the box.
We all have baggage. The question is: What baggage can you deal with?
The truth is that I love my baby to bits, but the rest of it sucked. Pregnancy was the biggest killer for me. I hated it - I hated being fat.
Anytime someone has said to me, 'You can't do that,' I have answered, 'Watch me.'
I have worked so hard since I was 15 years old, all because I wanted to be a mom.
But for me, I prefer to play the more rugged character because it's more real. ... More people can relate to those types of characters, and I like to be able to relate to everybody.
She is the best thing that ever happened to me,
I'm blessed with a great memory. To be honest, a lot of times, being on my own at such a young age, my memories were all I had. I didn't have many pictures.
If you want to do something, just do it. No one is going to do it for you.
I don't want to be the Hollywood girl... I'm Southern and old-fashioned.