Jaime Elizabeth Pressly (born July 30, 1977) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress and model. She currently plays Joy on the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl.

Pressly starred as “Violet” in the 1997 film Poison Ivy: The New Seduction. In 1998 she played a recurring role as the assassin MikaMortal Kombat: Conquest. In 1999, Pressly was cast as the promiscuous dancer “Audrey” on the television series Jack and Jill. In 2001, she was made the new spokesmodel for Liz Claiborne Cosmetics and its fragrance Lucky You. She has performed with the band The Pussycat Dolls. In 2002, she was ranked #8 in Stuff magazine’s “102 Sexiest Women in the World”. In 2003, she launched a lingerie line, J’Aime, which later became a full sleepwear and ready-to-wear line. In 2006, Maxim magazine named her #34 on its annual list; she is also featured in its gallery. She also appeared nude in the May 2006 issue of Allure. in the TV action series

One persistent rumor is that Pressly married a man named Brodie Mitchell in 1998. Pressly, who has never married, has stated she has heard of Mitchell but does not know him.^  Pressly dated her Jack and Jill co-star Simon Rex in 2000 and 2001. In a December 10, 2001 radio interview with Howard Stern, she said that Rex broke up with her on her birthday. In October 2006, she became engaged to her boyfriend of a year-and-a-half, DJ Eric Calvo (aka DJ Eric Cubiche), with whom she had been friends for nine years.May 11, 2007 at 7:31 a.m. in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to their first child, Dezi James Calvo, who weighed 6 lb 4 oz (2.8 kg), and was 18 1/2 inches long.

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