Jan smithers where is she now

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Smithers still leads a highly private life, and although she is in social media, she keeps her accounts locked. Women with Will. TV Shows. Inspirational Stories. Advertise with us. Contact us. About us. Celebrity January 26, The result, "The State of the American Teenager," offers fascinating and sometimes disturbing insights into a generation that's plugged in, politically aware, and optimistic about their futures, yet anxious about their country.

It took the assistance of half a dozen people and months of dead ends to track down Jan Smithers, by far the most famous of the six teenagers Newsweek profiled in After appearing on the cover of Newsweek 's teen issue—blond, sun-kissed, seated on a motorcycle and flashing a killer smile—Smithers received calls from "many, many" Hollywood agents hoping to represent her.

She was also married to actor James Brolin for nine years. Today, however, she lives in Southern California and avoids the spotlight. Her most recent IMDb entry , for Mr. Nice Guy , is from If I ever let them know, they're so surprised," she says.

Because of Newsweek magazine, I didn't have a chance to imagine how it would come out! Before Newsweek , Smithers was just a year-old Valley girl. She grew up in a modest middle-class family in Los Angeles. Her father was a lawyer, her mother a homemaker, and she had three sisters, though the eldest died in a car accident at Smithers was shy, liked art and was lukewarm on school.

She attended Taft High School, and one day a guy she knew asked her to go surfing with him. I can't play hookie! The beach was empty, and Smithers remembers sitting on the sand watching him surf, wondering what her mother would say when she got home. Suddenly, she spotted two men dressed in black walking toward her.

One had long hair and cameras around his neck. They walked right up to me and said, 'We're doing an article on teens across the country, and we're looking for a girl from California. We're wondering if you'd be interested in doing the article. Smithers said yes. After the article came out, her mother took her to meet agents in Hollywood.

She was looking for someone who communicated like a person. She was accepted to Chouinard Art Institute , now the California Institute of the Arts, but quit after a couple of years to pursue acting full time.