The Baywatch actress Yasmine Bleeth vanished from Hollywood and has a quite different appearance now.

There are costs associated with becoming a well-liked star. All of the glitz and attention can quickly cause one’s life to go in the wrong direction. For this reason, several celebrities, such as singers and actors, were compelled to halt their careers.

In the 1990s, Yasmine Bleeth was a tremendous star. She rose to fame thanks to her portrayal of Caroline Holden in Baywatch, one of the most watched television shows ever.

Born in 1968 in New York, Bleeth was the son of a model mother and a businessman father. At the age of ten months, Bleeth made his television debut in a commercial for Johnson & Johnson’s No More Tears baby shampoo. When Bleeth was just six years old, renowned fashion photographer Francesco Scavullo recognized that she was always incredibly beautiful. He included pictures of Bleeth and her mother Carina, whom he regarded as “one of the most beautiful women in the world,” in his well-known book Scavullo ladies because he was captivated by them.

Everyone in her immediate vicinity knew that Bleeth would one day become a major celebrity. As a young child, she appeared in lucrative ads, and television was the next obvious step.

Bleeth made appearances in the daytime serial opera Ryan’s Hope and the movie Hey Babe! prior to her major breakthrough with Baywatch.

However, Bleeth’s mother died at the age of 47 from inflammatory breast cancer a few months after the series was canceled. Since her mother’s death had a profound impact on her at the time, Bleeth declined the many offers she received for various films. She was spending most of her days by herself at home at the time, occasionally going for walks and watching cookery shows.

Bleeth made an appearance as a guest star in a season four episode of Baywatch in the 1990s, but she was so brilliant that she was offered a regular position almost away. She appeared on the show for four seasons.

She was listed as one of the “50 Most Beautiful People” by People Magazine in 1995.
Bleeth played the attractive inspector Caitlin Cross on the television show Nash Bridges from 1998 to 2000. She was going through a difficult period in her personal life at the time, though. Specifically, she became engaged to actor Richard Grieco, but as their relationship fell apart, she resorted to drugs as a coping mechanism. In addition, she developed a shopping obsession.

I used to spend hours getting a facial, applying tanning cream, and plucking my eyebrows. I would, however, primarily shop online. I would place an order from Bluefly, Saks Fifth Avenue, or Neiman Marcus. I bought all these lovely stuff, but I never went out, which was the biggest joke. I would spend literally $5,000 to $10,000 in a single night purchasing online—forget about the money I was spending on drugs! I had an obsession. “It was instant gratification to shop,” she said in 2003 to Glamour magazine.

 

She would spend all of her time alone and lost contact with her pals. She made an effort to maintain her sobriety while filming, but it was clear that something wasn’t quite right.
“On a few occasions, I got blood on my nose on set, but the makeup artist would simply give me a tissue and I would clean it up without saying anything.” I would get a facial or use a steam chamber to cleanse my body if I sounded stuffed up in the morning. Additionally, my publicist would claim that I had sinus issues if I was sniffling, which is true,” she claimed.

She was emotionally and physically impacted by the addiction. She was not the same person she used to be. The former Baywatch star’s head swelled and she became quite thin.

She then talked candidly about that time in her life and disclosed that she could die from a nasal infection. “After putting me on antibiotics, the doctor told me that if I had had this infection for another couple of months, it might have spread to my brain and killed me,” she added.

 

Bleeth felt she had to change if she didn’t want to die after passing out on set and being arrested for cocaine possession, so she checked herself into a treatment facility.

She met Paul Cerrito, the man who would become her husband and the love of her life, there.

The former actress told Glamour Magazine, “They say you shouldn’t get into any relationship in the first year of sobriety — especially with someone in the program, but Paul and I fell in love immediately.”

She and Paul are still married now, although they avoid the spotlight.