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Karen Duffy
  • Birth Name:
    Karen T. Duffy
  • Common Name:
    Karen D Lambros
  • Date of Birth:
    May 23, 1961
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Gemini
  • Place of Birth:
    New York City, New York, USA
  • Height:
    5' 6"
  • Sex:
    Female
  • Hair Color:
    Brown
  • Eye Color:
    Brown
  • Nationality:
    American
  • Religion:
    Roman
  • Education:
    Park Ridge High School, Park Ridge

    Recreational Therapy, University of Colorado

Family

Karen Duffy
  • Father:
    Phil Duffy
  • Mother:
    Carol
  • Brother:
    James Duffy
  • Sister:
    Kate Duffy, Laura Duffy
  • Spouse:
    John Lambros
  • Son:
    Jack

Career

Karen Duffy

Trivia

Karen Duffy
  • Karen Duffy is an American model, television and actress.
  • In 2008, Duffy began working with New York City's NYCTV through a series of emergency preparedness videos, based on the network's hit TV show, Secrets of New York.
  • On July 7, 2007, she appeared on the Live Earth telecast on the Bravo Channel as a co-host at Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States.
  • Duffy currently hosts House of Tiny Terrors on TLC.
  • She was modeling and appearing in television commercials and would become a VJ for MTV in the early 1990s as "Duff."
  • She has had small roles in a handful of films including Dumb & Dumber.
  • In 2000 her book "Model Patient: My Life As an Incureable Wise-Ass" was published.
  • In 1995 she was diagnosed with neurosarcoidosis, a rare incurable disease that attacks the central nervous system.
  • She was working as a correspondent for controversial documentary film-maker Michael Moore on his television shows TV Nation and The Awful Truth.

Quotes

Karen Duffy
  • "I take a lot of drugs; I am the patient of a fearless pharmacologist."
  • "I just had that conversation this morning with my doctor. I just got back from the hospital a half-hour ago, and nothing will make me happier than to replicate the DNA of my amazing husband. Im optimistic."
  • "I'm still working with Revlon and got a couple of movies in the can, and Im working on two television shows as we speak."
  • "My family has been amazing, and they understand how blessed I am. They've been able to keep my sense of humor."
  • "I believe my experience as a certified recreational therapist assisted me in demanding the best possible care from my doctors."
  • "In addition, I'll be attending women's health expos and medical conferences with the goal to promote dialogue between women and their health-care providers."
  • "What's interesting as an actress and a model is the focus of my career was on my face and my body, and the visibility of my symptoms were strikingly real, so I had to adjust to my new way of living."
  • "I try to manage my time to conserve energy."
  • "Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water."
  • "The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area."
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Biography

Karen Duffy
Last Updated: Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Karen DuffKaren Duffy is an American model, television personality, and actress. Born in New York City, she attended Park Ridge High School in New Jersey until she graduated in 1979. She followed this with a bachelors degree in recreational therapy from the University of Colorado. Duffy was leading a relatively carefree youth in the heyday of her modeling career, partying with movie star friends such as George Clooney, when in 1995 she was diagnosed with the relatively rare disease sarcoidosis.

In her case, this affected her brain (neurosarcoidosis), leaving her partially paralysed. She has so far battled it with a sense of humor, as is evident from her 2000 autobiography Model Patient: My Life As an Incurable Wise-Ass. She has explained, "I tried to write a book not for sick people, but for people with a sick sense of humor ... [this] is not a typical book about illness." After the diagnosis she continued to model for Revlon and married John Lambros in 1997. They have since had a son named Jack "Lefty" Lambros.

Filmography

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