Andrea Arlington

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Andrea Arlington, formerly known as Andrea Neiers and Andrea Dunn, is an American life coach, writer, minister, former television personality, and former model.

She was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and grew up there, graduating from Madison East High School. She studied at Emerson Theological Institute. In the 1980s she worked as a pin-up model and even appeared in Playboy before moving to Los Angeles to pursue acting in sitcoms.

Arlington married Mikel Neiers, with whom she has two daughters, Alexis Haines and Gabrielle; they later divorced. She then married Jerry Dunn, a production designer, and that marriage also ended in divorce. She became a main cast member of the 2010 E! reality series Pretty Wild, which followed her family as they managed their daughters’ modeling careers and homeschooled them. During the show, Alexis was involved with the Bling Ring, and part of her trial was documented. Arlington appeared again in the 2022 Netflix documentary The Real Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist.

A follower of the New Thought Movement, Arlington is an ordained minister with the Church of Religious Science and serves at the Global Truth Center in Los Angeles. She is an International Coaching Federation certified life coach, focusing on family recovery and relationships, and founded Families United for Recovery. She holds a doctorate in consciousness studies from the Emerson Theological Institute and wrote Revelations of a Bad Mom: Journey of Loving Your Child into Recovery and Healing Your Family.

Arlington grew up in Madison and began modeling at a young age, eventually signing with Elite Model Management and appearing in Playboy. She is the basis for the character Laurie Moore, played by Leslie Mann, in the 2013 film The Bling Ring.