Beth Ostrosky Stern | |
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 Stern at the 2014 AHA Hero Dog Awards | |
| Born | Beth Ostrosky July 15, 1972 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Author, model, animal-rights activist |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Spouse | |
Beth Ostrosky Stern (born July 15, 1972) [1] is an American actress, author, model, and animal rights activist.
Stern was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [1] Her mother, Judy ( née Jarema), is a former model and her father, Robert Ostrosky, is a dentist. [2] Stern was raised Roman Catholic. [3] She has two brothers. [4]
Stern attended Fox Chapel High School in suburban Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania, [5] and took classes for three years at the University of Pittsburgh before leaving to pursue a modeling career in New York City. [6]
Stern received her first noticeable role as one of the daughters of Ben Stiller's supposed birth parents in the 1996 film Flirting with Disaster . She played a more prominent role four years later in the film Whipped , with Amanda Peet. Stern has also appeared on television, appearing in the final season of G4 show Filter , and the Spike TV series Casino Cinema .
She has appeared in her own line of calendars, as well as on the covers of several magazines, including three times on FHM . [1] Votes from the readers of For Him Magazine (" FHM ") placed Stern among FHM's 100 Sexiest Women of the Year in 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2007( #76). AskMen.com placed Stern 96th in its list of the Most Desirable Women for 2007.[ volume & issue needed ] [7]
In 2010, Stern authored Oh My Dog: How to Choose, Train, Groom, Nurture, Feed, and Care for Your New Best Friend, [8] which reached #5 on The New York Times Best Seller list of paperback advice books. [9] In 2014, she wrote the children's book Yoda: The Story of a Cat and his Kittens, which tells the story of a Persian cat with a heart condition that she and her husband adopted. She released a sequel, Yoda Gets a Buddy, the following year. Proceeds from both books went to support Bianca's Furry Friends, a 14,000-square-foot, cage-free animal shelter at the North Shore Animal League, named after the couple's deceased bulldog. [10] [11]
Stern hosted the short-lived National Geographic reality television show Spoiled Rotten Pets in 2013. [12] Later that year, she was named as the host of the first annual Kitten Bowl, a Super Bowl counterprogramming special on the Hallmark Channel which, as of 2019 [update] , has continued to air annually with Stern as a cast member. [13] [14]
Radio personality Howard Stern, who is 18 years her senior, proposed to Beth Ostrosky on February 13, 2007, after seven years of dating. [15] The couple married at Le Cirque restaurant in New York City on October 3, 2008, in a ceremony officiated by actor Mark Consuelos. [16] As of 2019 [update] , the Sterns primarily reside in the Town of Southampton on Long Island, though they also own homes in Manhattan and in Palm Beach, Florida. [17]
Beth Stern maintains dedicated "foster rooms" in all three of her residences for cats and kittens in need of permanent homes, a project she began in 2013. [18] That same year, she launched a personal Instagram account which soon became focused on the animals in her care. [19] [20] As of 2019 [update] , it has more than half a million followers and has helped Stern to facilitate roughly 1,000 adoptions. [21]
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We have an apartment in Manhattan with a foster room. Our house in Palm Beach has a foster room and our house in the Hamptons... Howard and I are happiest when we are at our home in Southampton. We spend most of our time on Long Island...
Beth Stern, a former model, says she and her radio-show-host husband have saved at least 500 cats and kittens since 2013...
'I just got Beth drunk and made her join Instagram. Follow her @BethOStern,' Whitney Cummings wrote.
With a near constant flow of daily kitty pics filling 99% of her Instagram and Twitter accounts...
