Vicki McCarty Iovine is an American

United States

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 model

Model (person)

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, writer, and lawyer.

Biography

Iovine received her undergraduate degree (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in Journalism from University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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. She earned a law degree

Juris Doctor

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 from Hastings College of the Law and an LL.B. in International Law from Cambridge University.

She is a former member of the board of directors of the Special Olympics

Special Olympics

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, as well as a former television producer and radio talk show host. She was Playboy

Playboy

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 magazine's Playmate of the Month for its September 1979 issue and was photographed by Arny Freytag

Arny Freytag

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. She is currently separated from her husband, Jimmy Iovine

Jimmy Iovine

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, a record producer

Record producer

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 and founder of Interscope Records

Interscope Records

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. They have four children.

Works

Iovine has published several titles pertaining to pregnancy and parenthood under the brand of Girlfriends' Guides, as well as Best Friends' Guides.

Girlfriends' Guides

• The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy (1st Ed. 1995, 2nd Ed. 2007)
• The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy Daily Diary (1996)
• The Girlfriends' Guide to Survivng the First Year of Motherhood (1997)
• The Girlfriends' Guide to Toddlers (1999)
• The Girlfriends’ Guide to Getting your Groove Back (2001)
• The Girlfriends‘ Guide to Baby Gear (2003)
• The Girlfriends' Guide to Parties and Playdates (2003)

Best Friends' Guides

• Best Friends' Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood: Wise and Witty Advice (1999)
• The Best Friends' Guide to Toddlers: A Survival Manual to the 'Terrible Twos' (and Ones and Threes) from the First Step, the First Potty and the First Word ('No') to the Last Blanket (1999)
• The Best Friends' Guide to Getting Your Life Back (2005)

External links

• Vicki Iovine Bio at Penguin Books
• Girlfriends' Guide with Vicki Iovine - The Original Girlfriend