Jodie Sweetin

Jodie became a victim of alcohol and drug abuse at an early age experiencing alcohol abuse at 14 just after ‘Full House’ ended. For the next one and a half decades, Jodie used drugs like crack, ecstasy and methamphetamine.

She married Shaun Holguin, a Los Angeles Police officer in July 2002. Her drug addiction, which led her to undergo treatment by hospitalisation and later going through a rehab program, started affecting her marriage which resulted in divorce in 2006.

From May 2007, she dated a film transportation coordinator, Cody Herpin, whom she married on July 14 that year in Las Vegas, Nevada. She has a daughter, Zoie (born on April 12, 2008), with Herpin. The couple filed for legal separation on November 19, 2008 and got their divorce on April 20, 2010.

Jodie Sweetin was born on January 19, 1982, in Los Angeles, California, US while her biological parents were in prison. She was brought up by her uncle, Sam, a handyman and his second wife, Janice, as their only child.

Although Sam and Janice adopted her when she was nine months old, they could legalize the adoption only when she was around two years of age as Jodie’s biological father was ¼ th Native American.

Amazed by the acting skills of this toddler, Janice was motivated by family friends to take Jodie’s talent further which motivated the former to contact a talent agent.

Jodie embarked on her career with a hot dog commercial at age four. She was gifted a Lhasa Apso named Lacey by the producers of a Sizzler ad that she featured in as a child.

In 1987, at age five she made her television debut with the American sitcom ‘Valerie’. She featured as Pamela in the 11th episode of its Season 2 titled ‘Boston Tea Party’ that was aired on January 4 that year.

She drew attention of producers, Thomas Miller, and Robert Boyett, who at that time were on the verge of creating the sitcom ‘Full House’. Thereafter, the creator of the series ‘Jeff Franklin’ cast her in one of the main roles in the series as Stephanie Tanner that turned out to be the most remarkable role played by Jodie so far.

Her role as Stephanie was that of the intelligent, inquisitive and sarcastic middle child of news anchorman Danny Tanner. She essayed the role from the very outset of the series on September 22, 1987 till its end on May 23, 1995 and was the only performer to feature on each of its episodes.

She reprised the role of Stephanie in 1989 in Walt Disney Productions variety TV show ‘The All-New Mickey Mouse Club’, in its ‘Guest Day’ episode.

The 36th prime-time animated TV special ‘It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown’, based on Charles Schulz's comic strip ‘Peanuts’, saw her giving voice-over as Sally Brown, the younger sister of the character of Charlie Brown. The TV short was aired on November 27, 1992, on the CBS network.