Guys With Kids

Season 1 SABC3 (*193) 19:30 Comedy

Jamie-Lynn Sigler grabbed her role as a mom with both hands as Emily in Guys With Kids (2012-2013) because it gave her a break from her routine. “To this day, people in the streets still refer to me as Meadow from mafia drama The Sopranos (1999-2007). It’s great that there are still fans who’re so dedicated, but that was one role. My career has to be about more. At least it must for me to consider it a success,” say the actress.

She joined The Sopranos when she 1 was 15 and says that she was more surprised by the storylines than the size of the production, admitting that “I’ve probably interacted with some of these people [mobsters] and not realised it. They are normal guys who’re sitting outside your local deli. It’s crazy!” Despite her Mediterranean looks, 2 Jamie-Lynn isn’t Italian at all. She is Greek-Jewish from her dad’s side and Cuban from her mother. She had an eating disorder in 1999 3 and in 2000 was paralysed from the waist down for a week after being bitten by a tick and contracting Lyme Disease. She has also been living with Multiple Sclerosis for 15 years, which affects the brain and spinal cord. 4 She’s married to baseball player Cutter Dykstra, who is the perfect son-in-law, says Jamie: “My father Steve has been playing baseball his entire life and founded the Men’s Senior Baseball League. Now he gets to go to pro ball games and meet all the players.” While Jamie-Lynn says that her 5 2001 pop album Here To Heaven is one of the worst decisions of her career because of how badly it did, singing the US and Canadian national anthems at a 2002 ice hockey game is one of her proudest moments.