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Tonya Harding More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

12 November 1970, Portland, Oregon, USA

Birth Name

Tonya Maxine Harding

Nickname

Bad Girl

Height

5' 1¾" (1.57 m)

Spouse

Michael Smith	(23 December 1995 - 1996) (divorced)
Jeff Gillooly	(18 March 1990 - 23 August 1993) (divorced)

Trivia

Ice skater.

Involved in clubbing Nancy Kerrigan in the knee during the 1994 U.S. Nationals.

Was arrested for beating up her boyfriend electrician Darren Silver. [2000]

A judge ordered that Tonya be evicted from her home for failing to pay the rent. Consequently, she and her dog were forced to live in her Corvette. Tonya said that there were problems with the house. [January 2002]

Measurements: 33B-24-37 (at time of her arrest), 36C-25-37 (after implants) (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine).

Daughter of Al Harding (b. ca 1934) and wife, later divorced, LaVona.

Attended Milwaukie High School in Milwaukie, Oregon but didn't graduate.

Asthmatic; used asthma medication between rounds in her boxing match with Paula Jones.

Personal Quotes

"It's an image that the media has given me as a bad girl, and the only reason they gave me that image is just because of the few things that have gone wrong in my life, and also because I grew up living in a trailer. I moved around 13 different times before I was in fifth grade, not having money, not having a lot of friends. My biological mother made my clothes or bought my clothes from Salvation Army or Goodwill. And so, you know, that's where the bad girl image came from."

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