Carrie Stevens
When Playboy's Miss June, 1997, Carrie Stevens, played the guitarist's girl in the Jennifer Aniston movie "Rock Star," she didn’t have to research the part. She's lived it.
At age 18, she was already on the road with rock legends KISS and the girlfriend of their drummer, Eric Carr. She says, "I actually met him at a hotel the band was staying at."
She experienced the dazzle and the danger. She says, "There was this psychotic woman. The security people were concerned because the woman said she was going to kill me. Security would have to walk me separately to the tour bus and separately to the concert to make sure it was safe."
Carrie survived to spend three years as the love of Enrique Iglesias. The Latin pop king first spotted her on the newsstands. Carrie says, "That was May of '97. My Playboy issue was on the stands that month."
As a couple, "Their Song" was Enrique’s breakthrough hit. Carrie says, "The night he recorded it, he played it for me in his hotel room in the headphones. I told him there are big things out there for you and you have no idea."
But what happened wasn’t good for their relationship. The last straw came on Super Bowl Sunday 2000. She says, "It was a Super Bowl party and all these playmates were throwing themselves at him. I got jealous. Neither one of us tried. We let it go."
And now Carrie has let go of the music world to focus on her movie career. Her sultry good looks are showcased in "Redemption" and "The Backlot Murders," two of five films she has coming out this year. But even though actress Carrie may never date another musician, she has already secured her place in rock and pop history.
She says, "I look back on that time as the happiest time of my life."
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