Carmen Electra (born April 20, 1972) is an American model, television personality, actress and singer, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, as Tara Leigh Patrick to a family of Irish, German, and Native American (Cherokee) descent. She is not related to adult film actress Tera Patrick, born Linda Hopkins Shapiro. She attended Princeton High School for four years in the suburbs of Cincinnati. She is married to guitarist Dave Navarro of Jane's Addiction and Red Hot Chili Peppers fame.