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Although this '80s sex kitten ushered many a boy into puberty by writhing around in lingerie on the hood of a car in Whitesnake's video "Here I Go Again," she would have faded away into pop-culture oblivion if it weren't for her well-publicized drug problems and run-ins with the law. After doing small parts on TV and in films (she was Tom Hanks' bride-to-be in Bachelor....
Although this '80s sex kitten ushered many a boy into puberty by writhing around in lingerie on the hood of a car in Whitesnake's video "Here I Go Again," she would have faded away into pop-culture oblivion if it weren't for her well-publicized drug problems and run-ins with the law. After doing small parts on TV and in films (she was Tom Hanks' bride-to-be in Bachelor Party), this former model became a hair-metal hottie and was briefly wed to Whitesnake front man David Coverdale. In the '90s, she snagged a few low-rent acting gigs (cohost of America's Funniest People, recurring roles on The New WKRP in Cincinnati and Hercules) but was more famous for beating up her second hubby, baseball pitcher Chick Finley, with a high-heeled shoe. When he filed for divorce, Kitaen admitted to drug problems and was required to undergo substance abuse and anger-management counseling. After being out of the public eye for a couple of years, she made a messy return in 2006 when she signed on to VH1's "celebreality" show The Surreal Life. Erratic, drug-addled, flirtatious and angry (she verbally attacked Brady Bunch matriarch Florence Henderson), Kitaen alienated almost all of her housemates, along with most viewers. While she repeatedly claimed that she was sober, in November of that same year she was arrested for cocaine possession.


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Family

Daughter:  Raine Finley  ((born June 1, 1998; father is Chuck Finley))
Daughter:  Wynter Merin Finley  ((born March 18, 1993; father is Chuck Finley))
Ex-husband:  Chuck Finley  ((baseball player; married November 20, 1997; divorced April 4, 2002))
Ex-husband:  David Coverdale  ((Whitesnake singer; married February 17, 1989; divorced 1991))
Father:  Terry Kitaen  
Mother:  Linda Taylor Kitaen  

Education

Attended Mission Bay High School, San Diego, CA
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