The Multi-faceted Jennifer Sky
(for the full article and multimedia experience, click here: OM-Times October 2009 Edition)
Celebrity Ambassador Humanity Healing International
In her thirty-two years of life, Jennifer Sky has had an extraordinary set of experiences, as a model, actor, philanthropist, illness survivor and now writer.
As an model, Jennifer appeared in top fashion magazines, including Seventeen, YM, Allure, Elle and Vogue Bambini, was featured on several covers, including Sassy, and represented California Tan, Pepe Jeans, Dannon, Baby Ruth and Ford in extensive advertising campaigns.
Jennifer retired from modeling at eighteen and returned to Florida to study acting. She was immediately cast as a series regular in The New Mickey Mouse Club: Emerald Cove. After a season of working steadily in Florida, she returned to New York to study under several acclaimed acting coaches, and co-starred in her first movie, Deadline, which debuted at Slamdance Film Festival. At twenty she moved to Los Angeles, where her acting career continued to flourish. She spent her first year in LA in a contract role on the popular daytime soap opera, General Hospital. She guest starred on such television shows as Buffy The Vampire Slayer, CSI, Boomtown, LA Dragnet, Charmed, Sins of the City, Pacific Blue, SeaQuest: DSV, starred in TV Movies, Colombo likes the Nightlife and Our Son, the Matchmaker, and had reoccurring roles on McG’s Fastlane, CSI: Miami and Xena: Warrior Princess. This last role led to the title role as Cleopatra in the cult classic, sci-fi show Cleopatra 2525. Jennifer also appeared in feature films, including the comedy, Meet Market (which co-starred Julian McMahon), Shallow Hal, internationally successful horror film, My Little Eye and Never Die Alone with DMX. As a popular actress, Jen has been interviewed and photographed for numerous publications: from online sci-fi fan blogs, to TV Guide, to posing for edgy magazines such as Stuff, Loaded, FHM UK (photo’s by James White) and the cover of Maxim.
In 2003, Jennifer was diagnosed with giant hemangiomas of the liver and underwent successful liver resection in 2006. Through her illness, Jen and Alex Band (lead singer of The Calling and her ex-husband), became passionate supporters of Donate Life America, the nonprofit charity branch of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS). Their involvement has brought in more contributions and interest to Donate Life than any other individual, and they now co-chair the spin off organization, Alex Band’s Donate Life Rocks.
Jen started studying writing in 2001, and graduated in 2008 from UCLA’s master class in memoir taught by PEN nominee Samantha Dunn, where she completed her first book titled A Model Life. A Model Life is a young adult memoir about Jennifer’s transformation from dyslexic-chubby-outcast to teenage model, and the five years she spent in the fashion business traveling the globe alone: a hideously beautiful world she just managed to survive. She is also honored to have post-modern fairytale queen Francesca Lia Block as her ongoing mentor. Additionally, she writes a bi-monthly opinion column for a The Stuart News, a Florida newspaper. Jennifer is also an accomplished poet, as you can see from her poetry following this article.
