<Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> Simran Singh (m . 2009--11) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Children </Th> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <P> Jaime Elizabeth Pressly (born July 30, 1977) is an American actress and model . She is best known for playing Joy Turner on the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl, for which she was nominated for two Emmy Awards (winning one) as well as a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award . She has also appeared in films such as Poison Ivy: The New Seduction (1997), Joe Dirt (2001), The Oogieloves (2012), DOA: Dead or Alive (2006), and I Love You, Man (2009). She is currently in the cast of the CBS sitcom, Mom . </P> <P> Pressly was born in Kinston, North Carolina, the daughter of Brenda Sue (née Smith), a dance instructor, and James Liston Pressly, a car salesman . She was raised in a Christian family . In 1992, she moved with her family to Costa Mesa, California, where she spent the first semester of her high school sophomore year . She spent her childhood and early teenage years training as a gymnast, which led her to modeling jobs . </P>

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