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18 Facts About Andrea Arlington

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Andrea Arlington, formerly Neiers and Dunn, is an American life coach, writer, minister, former television personality, and former model.

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Andrea Arlington began her career as a pin-up model in the 1980s, appearing in Playboy and eventually moving to Los Angeles to act in sitcoms.

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Andrea Arlington appeared in the 2022 Netflix documentary series The Real Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist, which covers her daughter's role in the crime group the Bling Ring.

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Andrea Arlington is a certified life coach through the International Coaching Federation, specializing in family recovery and relationships, and founded the organization Families United for Recovery.

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Andrea Arlington authored the book Revelations of a Bad Mom: Journey of Loving Your Child into Recovery and Healing Your Family.

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Andrea Arlington grew up in Madison, Wisconsin and graduated from Madison East High School.

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Shortly after her brother's death, Andrea Arlington began booking small acting roles on sitcoms in Los Angeles, where she met Mikel Neiers, a Hollywood cinematographer known for working as the director of photography on Friends and Spin City.

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Andrea Arlington married Neiers and had two children with him, Alexis and Gabrielle.

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Andrea Arlington lived the life of an affluent Los Angeles housewife.

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Andrea Arlington married a second time to Jerry Dunn, a production designer for television.

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Andrea Arlington lived with a transgender woman who taught her how to do hair and makeup, and helped her get her first national magazine cover when she was fourteen years old, taking her on a Greyhound bus to a modelling audition in Chicago.

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Andrea Arlington signed with Elite Model Management and began modeling lingerie as a pin-up model at the age of sixteen, eventually appearing in Playboy.

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The series documented their lives as they lived in Westlake Village and Hollywood Hills West, where Andrea Arlington managed her daughter's and foster daughter's modelling careers and home-schooled them.

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Andrea Arlington became fascinated with Rhonda Byrne's book The Secret about the pseudoscientific law of attraction and Norman Vincent Peale's book The Power of Positive Thinking.

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Andrea Arlington joined the New Thought Movement and became affiliated with Religious Science, and was ordained as a minister.

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Andrea Arlington received a doctorate in consciousness studies from the Emerson Theological Institute and works as Religious Science Minister serving at the Global Truth Center of Los Angeles.

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Andrea Arlington wrote the book Revelations of a Bad Mom: A Journey of Loving Your Child into Recovery and Healing Your Family.

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Andrea Arlington is the basis for Leslie Mann's character, Laurie Moore, in the 2013 crime film The Bling Ring.