Short Biography

Karen Duffy is an American model, television personality, and actress.

Duffy was born in New York City, the daughter of Carol, a homemaker, and Phil Duffy, a developer.

She attended Park Ridge High School in Park Ridge, New Jersey, graduating in 1979. She received a bachelors degree in recreational therapy from the University of Colorado.

By 1989, she was modeling and appearing in television commercials and became VJ for MTV in the early 1990s as "Duff." Since then she has had small roles in a handful of films including Dumb & Dumber, and by 1999 she was working as a correspondent for controversial documentary film-maker Michael Moore on his television shows TV Nation and The Awful Truth. Duffy currently hosts House of Tiny Terrors on TLC.

On July 7, 2007, she appeared on the Live Earth telecast on the Bravo Channel as a co-host at Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States.

In 1995 Karen was diagnosed with the relatively rare disease sarcoidosis. In her case, this affected her brain (neurosarcoidosis), leaving her partially paralysed. She has so far battled it with a sense of humor, as is evident from her 2000 autobiography Model Patient: My Life As an Incurable Wise-Ass. She has explained, "I tried to write a book not for sick people, but for people with a sick sense of humor ... [this] is not a typical book about illness."

After the diagnosis she continued to model for Revlon and married John Lambros in 1997. They have since had a son named John "Lefty" Lambros.

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