Gena Lee Nolin (born November 29, 1971) is an American actress and model.
Nolin was born in Duluth, Minnesota. During her childhood, Nolin lived on a farm. As an athletic child she enjoyed skating, basketball, volleyball and softball. When Nolin was 17 she dropped out of school and ran away from home and an abusive father. She moved to Los Vegas were she worked as a waitress Nevada. She later entered in the Miss Las Vegas beauty pageant. She went on to win the title.
After becoming Miss Las Vegas, Nolin got the attention of several modelling agencies. Nolin moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue acting and study interior design at Santa Monica College. Nolin first worked as a waitress in L.A.
Nolin's first marriage, to David Alan Feiler in 1991, lasted a month and a day. He would later go on to stalk her, forcing her to get a restraining order. In 1993, Nolin met Greg Fahlman at a convention where he was giving out fliers. They got married on November 27, 1993.
Later that year, Nolin received breast implants. A year later, Nolin saw an ad in the paper for a popular, long running game show, The Price Is Right. She beat out 1,200 other women to become one of the show's Barker's Beauties. Soon afterward, Nolin appeared as model named Sandy in the soap opera The Young and the Restless.
In 1995, Nolin starred in her biggest role as Neely Capshaw in Baywatch, alongside Pamela Anderson. In June 1997, Nolin and Fahlman's first and only child, son Spencer, was born. Later in the year, Nolin began modelling, for the first time since her pregnancy, for Maxim. In 1998, Nolin quit starring in Baywatch and started her own show, Sheena, in 2000. In late 2001, Nolin posed nude for Playboy magazine, further increasing her fame.
In 2002, Sheena was cancelled. In 2004, Nolin divorced Fahlman and began dating NHL hockey player Cale Hulse. Around this time an explicit sex tape of her and Fahlman began to show up on the internet. On September 3, 2004 Hulse and Nolin got married at the Royal Palms Resort and Spa in Phoenix, Arizona. Their son, Hudson Lee Hulse, was born on April 15, 2006 in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Nolin stands 5'9" tall and her measurements are 34A-24-34 (model, pre-implants), 35C-24-34 (after implants-1993). She is one of many famous women now to have a celebrity sex tape. She once competed on TV series Fear Factor.
Gene Lee Nolin is a supporter of animal rights and active member of PETA. She posed for PETA's "Exotic Skins Belong in the Jungle, Not in Your Closet" campaign where she was (nude) and painted to look like a snake.
