1. Jodie Lee Ann Sweetin was born on January 19,1982 and is an American actress and television personality.
26 Facts About Jodie Sweetin
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Jodie Sweetin is best known for her role as Stephanie Tanner in the ABC comedy series Full House and its Netflix sequel series Fuller House.
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In 1999, four years after Full House ended, Jodie Sweetin graduated from Los Alamitos High School in Los Alamitos, California, and attended Chapman University in Orange, California.
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Jodie Sweetin began her career by appearing in several national commercials such as restaurant chain Sizzler in 1987.
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Jodie Sweetin was cast in a guest role in the sitcom Valerie as Pamela, the niece of Mrs Poole.
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Jodie Sweetin played the role of Tanner from age five until she was 13 years old.
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Jodie Sweetin returned to television by hosting the second season of the Fuse dance competition show Pants-Off Dance-Off.
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Jodie Sweetin starred in the television pilot, Small Bits of Happiness, a dark comedy centered around a suicide prevention specialist; it won Best Comedy at the 3rd Annual Independent Television Festival, in Los Angeles.
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In 2009, Jodie Sweetin focused on independent films and appeared in two films: Port City and Redefining Love.
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On March 2,2016, Jodie Sweetin was announced as one of the celebrities to compete on Dancing with the Stars for season 22.
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In 2019, Jodie Sweetin started a podcast called Never Thought I'd Say This on parenting alongside Celia Behar, a licensed mental health counselor and Jodie Sweetin's best friend.
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In 2022, Jodie Sweetin competed on CBS's Beyond the Edge, the seventh celebrity edition of Food Network's Worst Cooks in America: That's So90s, and the second season of FOX's Name That Tune.
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In 2023, Jodie Sweetin appeared in a television commercial for Sizzler, 36 years after her first commercial for the restaurant chain.
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In 2002, at age 20, Jodie Sweetin married her first husband, Los Angeles Police officer Shaun Holguin.
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Jodie Sweetin met Cody Herpin, a film transportation coordinator, through friends, and they started dating in May 2007.
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On November 19,2008, Jodie Sweetin filed for legal separation from Herpin.
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Jodie Sweetin filed for legal separation from Coyle in June 2013.
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On January 22,2016, she announced her engagement to Justin Hodak, who, like Jodie Sweetin, is a recovering drug addict.
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On March 24,2017, Jodie Sweetin announced the couple's separation, after he violated a restraining order against her.
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Jodie Sweetin started drinking alcohol when she was 14 years old, one year after Full House ended.
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In one passage of the book, Jodie Sweetin discusses breaking into tears while addressing a crowd at Wisconsin's Marquette University while coming down from a two-day methamphetamine, cocaine, and ecstasy binge.
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Jodie Sweetin spoke about growing up on television and about how much her life had improved since getting sober.
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Jodie Sweetin said she went sober for good in December 2008, but briefly relapsed after separating from Coyle in 2013.
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Jodie Sweetin later began working as a clinical logistics coordinator at a Los Angeles drug rehab center and completed her degree as a drug and alcohol counselor.
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Jodie Sweetin has expressed support for the Black Lives Matter movement, and she was active with Refuse Fascism, to demand the removal of the Trump administration through nonviolent street protests.
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On June 25,2022, Sweetin was shoved by members of the Los Angeles Police Department and fell to the ground while she was protesting for abortion rights in the wake of Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization, a US Supreme Court decision that overruled Roe v Wade and Planned Parenthood v Casey leading to abortion bans in multiple states.