Lesli Kay Sterling was born Lesli Kay Pushkin on June 13, 1965 in Charleston, West Virginia. When she was fifteen, she moved with her parents to New York to pursue a modeling career. She later worked at MTV and won $22,000 after playing at Wheel of Fortune. In the mid 90's she also worked in a series of soft-core pornographic films and TV series. In 1997 she was cast as Molly Conlan on the soap opera
As the World Turns . Because of her role, she won a Daytime Emmy for Best Supporting Actress in 2001. She also appeared a few times on
General Hospital and eventually in 2005 she was cast for the role of Felicia Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful. Sterling divorced her husband Mark Sterling in 1999 and got involved with Keith Coulouris, and had two children with him.
Felicia Forrester is portrayed by Lesli Kay Sterling in the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. Felicia was the black sheep of the Forrester Family, being the youngest daughter of Stephanie and Eric. She had ill-fated relationships with Jake MacClaine and Zach Hamilton, thus leaving town to take a break. She returned later to help exonerate her half-brother Ridge from his case of shooting Grant Chambers. She also helped reunite him with his wife, however, was unsuccessful in doing both. After another hiatus, she returned to have an affair with Nick Marone and discovered that she had colon cancer. A year later she had a baby son whom she thought was Nick's, but turned out to be a product of her one night affair with Dante Damiano. Nick was crushed at the truth that the baby wasn't his.