Denise Richards: Snapshot
- Name
- Denise Richards
- Birth Date
- February 17, 1971
- Birth Place
- Downers Grove, Ill.
With her lusty image in tow, Richards became a Bond girl in 1999's The World Is Not Enough, and after working with Charlie Sheen on Spin City, she married him. While several months pregnant with their second child, Richards filed for divorce, later requesting a restraining order against Sheen.
Tabloid attention grew when she soon began dating Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora, who at that time was married to her former friend Heather Locklear. Although she and Sambora didn't last, Richards continued to battle Sheen for custody of their two daughters. While her ex-husband married Brooke Mueller in May 2008, Richards let E! document her life in the reality show, Denise Richards: It's Complicated.
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Denise Richards: Five Fun Facts
- Denise Richards was called "fish lips" for her prominent pout as a kid.
- Though she claimed to be skinny with buckteeth and braces as a teenager, Denise Richards was voted Best Looking at El Camino High School in Oceanside, Calif.
- Denise Richards has loved getting glam since she was a little girl. "My younger sister and I used to watch my mom put her makeup on," she told In Style. "We would always get her old makeup and play dress-up. It was a disaster."
- Denise Richards was awarded with a Golden Raspberry Award (Razzie) as 2000's Worst Supporting Actress for her role in The World Is Not Enough.
- During her first pregnancy, Denise Richards craved French toast and grapefruit and rubbed coconut butter cream on her belly to avoid stretch marks.
Denise Richards: Biography 
- 1986
California Girl
"She was fairly quiet," investment analyst Jon Fellows, who claims to have shared Richards' first kiss in seventh grade, tells PEOPLE. "You wouldn't have thought she would become a star." But by high school, when Richards' family moves to Oceanside, Calif., the skinny kid with the glasses emerges from her shell and starts working part-time as a model. She moves to L.A. after graduating high school in 1989, where she spends years staying afloat with bit parts on television shows including Saved by the Bell, Married With Children and Beverly Hills, 90210.
- 1997
Science Fiction Vixen
Richards lands a lead movie role as futuristic fighter pilot Carmen Ibanez in the box-office dud turned cult classic Starship Troopers. "It was not my best performance," she bluntly tells EW in 1998. "I had this smile plastered on my face throughout the whole movie. I was so annoying."
- 1998
Party of Three
"Men love to see women together," Richards says to Entertainment Weekly. "Why is that? Explain it to me." She's talking about her saucy role in Wild Things, specifically her infamous threesome scene with Neve Campbell and Matt Dillon that turns her into a major sex symbol. "[My parents] definitely want to see the movie," she adds, "but I don't want my dad to see my breasts. I'm just hoping he'll cover his eyes."
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