Gena Lee Nolin Biography, Photos, Pictures

Baywatch babe Gena Lee Nolin was born on November 29, 1971, in Duluth, Minnesota. Growing up on a farm, Nolin enjoyed skating, and playing basketball, volleyball, and softball. At age seventeen, Nolin dropped out of school and fled from her home and abusive father. She set up home in Las Vegas, Nevada, where she began working as a waitress.Shortly after arriving in Las Vegas, Nolin entered and won the Miss Las Vegas beauty pageant. This led to offers from various modeling agencies, and a subsequent change of residence from Las Vegas to Los Angeles, California. While in California, Nolin pursued acting as well as studying interior design at Santa Monica College.At age twenty, Nolin married first husband, David Alan Feiler. The union lasted a little over a month, and resulted in Nolin getting a restraining order against Feiler, who had begun stalking her. Two years later, Nolin married Greg Fahlman, whom she had met at a convention. Also that year, Nolin underwent breast augmentation surgery.In 2004, Nolin beat out 1,200 other women in a competition to become the next Bob Barker beauty on The Price Is Right. This led to a role on the soap opera, The Young and the Restless, followed by her breakthrough role on the small screen, starring as Neely Capshaw on the beach babe phenomenon, Baywatch. Starring alongside David Hasselhoff, Pamela Anderson, and David Charvet, Nolin would be seen by a weekly audience of up to one billion viewers in over 140 countries.In 1997, Nolin and her husband welcomed the birth of a baby boy, Spencer. Less than a year later, Nolin had retained her svelte shape, and was posing for the cover of Maxim magazine. By 1998, Nolin had left Baywatch to star in her own show, Sheena, which ran from 2000 to 2004. During this time, Nolin also posed for Playboy magazine, further raising her profile as a blonde bombshell. She has since posed nude for PETA, of which she is an active supporter. The ad was part of PETA's Exotic Skins Belong in the Jungle, Not in Your Closet campaign, and featured Nolin painted to look like a snake.In 2004, Nolin and her husband Greg Fahlman parted ways. Also around this time, a sex tape of Nolin and Fahlman surfaced on the Internet. Later in 2004, Nolin married NHL star, Cale Hulse. Wedding guests reportedly received Starbucks gift cards as tokens, as Nolin and Cale first met on a blind date at the coffee shop. In 2006, the couple welcomed the birth of son, Hudson Lee Hulse, in Scottsdale, Arizona.