Deanna Merryman

Acting and modeling career Merryman was featured in Playboy magazine in 1997 in Playboy's Great Lingerie Model Search. She was featured in a pictorial in 1998 in a Celebrity Sleuth. In 1998, Merryman was a contestant in the Miss Hawaiian Tropic beauty pageant. She later became a model for Hawaiian Tropic. Merryman worked as a fitness model.

She starred in the documentary soap drama Desperately Seeking Stardom in 1999. Broadcast on the ITV network, the program featured six individuals living in a house in California and documented their attempts to become successful actors in Los Angeles.

During this time, attempting to gain a foothold in the acting industry, Merryman worked simultaneously as a model for lingerie and a waitress, and was featured in Playboy. and a role in the television soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. Daughn's photographs of Merryman also appeared in Mystique Magazine in January 2003, alongside models including: Aria Giovanni, Sunny Leone, Lisa Marie Scott, Natasha Yi, and Kalin Olson. She was featured in the book Mystique: Models of Mystique in the same year, photographed by Daughn.

Merryman posed nude in the October 2003 Playboy issue, and was photographed for the publication by Daughn. Merryman starred in the 2004 comedy film Busty Cops alongside Nikki Nova, Jesse Jane, Katie James, Sunny Leone and Seana Ryan. She again appeared in a Celebrity Sleuth pictorial in its October 2004 issue. She was photographed by Sam T'Ang for Beach Babes calendar in 2005, and by Daughn for the Mystique calendar published the same year. In 2006, Merryman moved from Los Angeles, California and hosted a party in South Beach, Florida, at Club Deep which was sponsored by FireStar Film Works and Phunhauz Ent. In 2011 she resided in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where she worked as a makeup artist.

Personal life Merryman had a relationship with stock car racing driver Jeff Gordon. She first met Gordon in 2000 while she was employed in Palm Beach, Florida, at a Neiman Marcus store in a mall where she advised customers about cosmetics products. At their first meeting, Merryman didn’t recognize the race-car driver, although her friends were excited to see him. Initially Merryman turned down Gordon's request to take her out for lunch. Merryman and Gordon vacationed together in Saint-Jean, Saint Barthélemy in the Caribbean in January 2003 to celebrate the New Year. This relationship caused difficulty for his then-ongoing marriage to Brooke Sealy. Sealy found out about Gordon’s relationship with Merryman and later divorced the race-car driver. Merryman was featured in the October 2003 issue of Playboy magazine, where she was interviewed about her relationship with Gordon. Merryman stated that Gordon had confided in her: "He got married when he was 23 and has been on the racetrack since he was a kid. He used to tell me all the time he never had a chance to have fun." She reflected on what she had learned after her period of time with Gordon, saying in the future she would avoid relationships both with men of his occupation and those who were married. Gordon did not comment on Merryman's 2003 appearance in the magazine.

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