Jaime King was a skinny teen model who smoked and did drugs. Today 30-year old Jaime is a successful actress with a host of upcoming movies, including the current 3-D release My Bloody Valentine: The Naked Truth. King now has a more curvy figure, works out and eats healthy, is happily married and looking forward to having kids.
Jaime King was recently voted number 79 on the hot 100 list of girls in Maxim. Growing up in Omaha, Nebraska, she became obsessed with modeling and shunned the regular experiences of teenage girls. Jaime told Maxim magazine: "I never fit in like a typical kid. My sister was captain of the drill squad, but the cheerleader jock thing was never for me. Instead, I took photos and developed my own film. I loved modeling because I loved the photography aspect."
There were other issues, which many teenage girls experience: "When I was in junior high, I had a lot of problems with people," Jaime told the New York Times. "I started getting my breasts earlier than everyone, I had my period earlier, and people really made fun of me."
On left, the skinny model's transformation into a curvy actress (right).
Jaime King first enrolled in a local modeling school and was luckily discovered by a famous agent; she dropped out of school and started modeling in New York using her nickname "James". So many people around her were smoking and doing drugs that King soon picked up these habits. "I've tried to think about the roots of why I was an addict," she once told a reporter. "I think I was just young." All the smoking, drugs, and pressure to look thin took its toll and Jaime returned to Omaha and checked into rehab.
In 1999 King took on her real name "Jaime" and returned to New York to try her luck as an actress. Jaime did many small movie roles and TV appearances (hosting a MTV show with Rebecca Romijn) but her first major role was in the 2003 Bulletproof Monk with Chow Yun Fat and Seann William Scott. This movie also began her fitness transformation: "We got to jump on, like, trampolines, learn flips, learn karate, kung fu, Hong Kong street fighting."
Jaime King hugs one of her best friends Selma Blair. One of her other close friends is Jessica Alba with whom she shares fitness trainer Ramona Braganza. "Working out is so much easier when I’m with Jess. I don’t want to look like a wuss in front of her, so I push myself pretty hard," the actress told OK Magazine. Jaime also likes to run and surf. For her diet King eats eggs for breakfast and gluten-free toast. Lunch and dinner are also simple, a salad, some kind of protein and vegetables. "Sometimes a baked potato. I’m a big fan of baked potatoes."
Jaime likes Chinese and Italian food when eating out, and she allows herself a sweet treat once in a while, like waffles. As a spokesperson for Revlon, Jaime King raised awareness for breast cancer. "I recommend that women make sure they do their self check exams and stay focused on their health. There are things you can do to lower your risk. I place a great deal of importance on maintaining a healthy weight, eating right, and staying active."
Jaime King is married to Kyle Newman who directed her in Fanboys. Among her other upcoming and future movie releases are: The Pardon, Waiting for Forever, A Fork in the Road, Tribes of October, and Riding the Pine. Jaime has one legacy from her teen years that she cannot transform....her tattoos! She's got her surname "King" tattooed between her shoulders and winged fairies on her lower back. "Sometimes I wonder why I didn’t just dye my hair pink or blue like a normal teenager. Now I have to spend two extra hours in the makeup chair covering them up!"
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