Friday January 26, 2001

Carmen Electra Goes Vegas

She's a tinsletown triple threat: actress/model/dancer. Now the "Baywatch" babe turned "Scary Movie" star is ready to hit Vegas like a lighting bolt. With her very own sexy stage show called "Lumiere." She describes it as "a voyage into a fantasy world."

A fantasy world that centers around the former Playmate creating magic that's all Carmen She says, "It's about a girl who is an angel. She turns into a bad girl and in the end she prevails and she gets her wings back."

In fact when the producers approached the ex Baywatch babe, she was very candid about her own life, helping to mold the story line. "I just opened up and talked about my life and experiences and what I've gone through."

Aside from her rising star, what's Carmen's gone through behind the scenes is a difficult couple of years. "I lost my mom and my sister. My mom died from cancer and my sister died from a heart attack in her sleep."

That plus her failed marriage to bad boy Dennis Rodman is why Electra says she put up an emotional wall. "It was just a crazy year, it was like a circus."

But after re-evaluating her life - America's most wanted bachelorette decided to return to her first love, dancing. "I'm able to dance again. I'm so grateful to be here, to do what I love. I almost have to pinch myself."