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05-26-2022, 12:38 AM
https://www.looper.com/874006/what-happened-to-loni-anderson/
BY SYLVIA-MARAH BOUNE/MAY 25, 2022 6:50 AM EDT
Actor Loni Anderson was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in August 1946. She was crowned Valentine Queen at her high school's winter formal, but she was more than just a pretty face — Anderson had brains, and she enrolled at the University of Minnesota in 1963. She paid her way through school by winning a string of beauty pageants, including Miss Roseville, which allowed her to compete for Miss Minnesota. She finished the competition as runner-up.
While in college, Anderson married her first husband, Bruce Hasselbeck, and the couple had a daughter named Deidra soon after. The marriage didn't work — they separated shortly after the baby was born and divorced after only two years of marriage. Anderson's divorce didn't stop her from finishing college as a single, working mom. It was during this time she began acting in local theater and commercials, contemplating a career as an actress.
Anderson is best known for playing Jennifer Marlowe on "WKRP in Cincinnati" between 1978 and 1982. If you aren't familiar with her career as a popular television actress, her fairy tale wedding to (and contentious divorce from) Burt Reynolds may have caught your attention. She was at the height of her powers in the late '70s, '80s, and '90s, but her career cooled off in the new millennium. Keep reading if you want to know what happened to Loni Anderson in the years since.
BY SYLVIA-MARAH BOUNE/MAY 25, 2022 6:50 AM EDT
Actor Loni Anderson was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in August 1946. She was crowned Valentine Queen at her high school's winter formal, but she was more than just a pretty face — Anderson had brains, and she enrolled at the University of Minnesota in 1963. She paid her way through school by winning a string of beauty pageants, including Miss Roseville, which allowed her to compete for Miss Minnesota. She finished the competition as runner-up.
While in college, Anderson married her first husband, Bruce Hasselbeck, and the couple had a daughter named Deidra soon after. The marriage didn't work — they separated shortly after the baby was born and divorced after only two years of marriage. Anderson's divorce didn't stop her from finishing college as a single, working mom. It was during this time she began acting in local theater and commercials, contemplating a career as an actress.
Anderson is best known for playing Jennifer Marlowe on "WKRP in Cincinnati" between 1978 and 1982. If you aren't familiar with her career as a popular television actress, her fairy tale wedding to (and contentious divorce from) Burt Reynolds may have caught your attention. She was at the height of her powers in the late '70s, '80s, and '90s, but her career cooled off in the new millennium. Keep reading if you want to know what happened to Loni Anderson in the years since.