Jennifer Lynne Gareis was born on 1 August 1970 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She was a former beauty queen, becoming second runner up at Miss Pennsylvania in 1992. Two years later she won the Miss New York U.S.A. title and represented New York in the Miss USA pageant that year. She placed in the top six of the said pageant. Her first television role was in
The Young and the Restless where she played Grace Turner. In 2006 she was cast for a role of
The Young and the Restless ' sister soap opera, The Bold and the Beautiful. She was also ranked #90 in Maxim's Hot 100 Women of 2002.
Donna Logan is played by Jennifer Lynne Gareis in the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. Donna came off as the concerned sister to the young Katie who had low self esteem because of her excessive acne. Donna convinced her classmate Rocco Carner to date her sister Katie. Little did Donna know, Rocco was attracted to her, and not to Katie. However, Donna was already involved with Mark Mallory. Later on, she let him go and she became a model for Tommy Bayland. She posed nude for a magazine in Europe. When Bill Spencer saw the photos, he published it in a US magazine. In revenge, Donna, Nick and Rocco took nude pictures of Bill and published them on Bill's magazines. She later on confessed what she did to Bill.
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