- Born
- Height6′ 0½″ (1.84 m)
- At 14 Monika Schnarre was the youngest girl ever to win the prestigious Ford Modeling Agency's "Supermodel of the World" competition. At 15 she was the youngest ever to have appeared on the cover of "American Vogue" and in the pages of the coveted "Sports Illustrated" swimsuit issue.
After a short but remarkable five-year career, Monika left modeling, finished high school with honors and moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting. Not long after arriving in L.A. she landed the lead role of Ivana in the daytime soap The Bold and the Beautiful (1987), and has since appeared in countless other television shows, including Caroline in the City (1995), Charmed (1998), The King of Queens (1998), Total Recall 2070 (1999), Dead Man's Gun (1997), Andromeda (2000), Mutant X (2001) and many more. She has also appeared in a cameo role opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in Junior (1994) and starred opposite Mimi Rogers and Anthony LaPaglia in the popular art house film Bulletproof Heart (1994). She played Linda Avery in _Deluxe Combo Platter (2004)_ opposite Marla Sokoloff and Jennifer Tilly.
Monika's highly rated television series, BeastMaster (1999), is still running worldwide in syndication. She splits her time among Los Angeles, Montana, Toronto and Vancouver. In her spare time she enjoys hiking, photography and fixing up her cabin.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Alex Stevens
- SpouseStorey Badger(August 6, 2010 - August 27, 2017) (divorced, 1 child)
- ChildrenBode Badger
- Won the Ford Supermodel of the World contest in 1986 at age 14.
- Is fluent in German.
- Gave birth to her 1st child at age 41, a son name Bode Badger on May 8, 2013. Child's father is her ex-husband, Storey Badger.
- Schnarre was the youngest ever to appear in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, at age 15.
- In 1987, Schnarre (along with Christy Turlington and Renee Simonsen) traveled behind the iron curtain to launch the first ever fashion magazine, Burda Moden, to be published in the Soviet Union.
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