Tara Reid is a U.S. actress. She is known for her roles in the films The Big Lebowski (1998), Urban Legend (1998), American Pie (1999), American Pie 2 (2001), National Lampoon`s Van Wilder (2002), My Boss`s Daughter (2003), Alone in the Dark (2005), and the 2008 teen film "Senior Skip Day". Reid was born and raised in Wyckoff, New Jersey, the daughter of Donna and Tom Reid, both of whom are teachers and day-care center owners. She attended Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School and subsequently Ramapo High School and graduated from alternative high school Barnstable Academy. Both high schools were in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. After finishing school she moved to Manhattan. Reid has twin younger siblings Colleen and Patrick and a brother Tom.
Reid was linked with Carson Daly after he made a cameo appearance in Josie and the Pussycats, in which Reid played the Pussycat Melody. In June 2001, Reid and Daly broke off their engagement. She previously had courted Russian hockey star Sergei Fedorov. In the late 1990s she courted actor Steve Burton and still is close to him and his family. She briefly dated football players Tom Brady, Jerome Bettis, Jeremy Shockey,[4] Kyle Boller, Kevin Mawae, tennis player Mark Philippoussis.
On the night of November 4, 2004, Reid was embarrassed at a widely publicized photograph shoot at Puff Daddy`s thirty-fifth birth-day party at Cipriani`s Restaurant in New York City, when her dress fell, exposing her left breast. Photographs of Reid having larger, perkier breasts than before had been circulating the Internet for several months before the incident, igniting rumors of Reid having undergone breast augmentation. Scar tissue was visible around Reid`s nipple, confirming rumors of the implants. The photographs were widely distributed. In August 2005, she publicly admitted getting breast augmentation surgery.[citation needed] In October 2006, she admitted in an interview with Us Weekly that she also had liposuction. In the interview she also discusses how her plastic surgery "went wrong," and also explains why she decided to have plastic surgery done, saying that her breasts were uneven and that she had saggy skin. In the same interview, Reid`s new plastic surgeon, Dr. Steven Svehlak, reported that he performed a procedure called a doughnut mastopexy to correct her original augmentation.
On New Year`s Eve 2006, at a large celebration in Chicago, Reid made several numerical errors in hosting the minute-long count-down for the year. A video of the incident circled the Internet. Reports surfaced in October 2007 that she had been hospitalised at the Centinela Freeman Regional Medical Center as a result of alcohol abuse. Reid has denied the reports, insisting, "I`m fine." Reid was reported to have a thinner appearance in November and December 2007. On December 12, 2008 publicist Jack Ketsoyan said Reid checked into the Promises Treatment Center. He did not specify what addiction she was being treated for.