Celebrity Birthdays, December 23: Holly Madison and Susan Lucci

Television personality Holly Madison and actress Susan Lucci are celebrating their birthdays today, December 23.

Holly Madison, 35

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Model, showgirl and television personality Holly Madison turns 35 today. In 2003, Madison was made the Playboy Cyber Girl of the Week on the magazine's website. She also appeared on the cover and inside of the November 2005 issue of Playboy, along with Bridget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson, as part of a special pictorial promoting their show The Girls Next Door, which aired on E! from August 2005 until August 2010. The women were featured again on the covers of the September 2006, March 2008, and February 2009 issues.

During seasons three and four of Girls Next Door, Madison was shown working at the Playboy studios as an intern and later a junior photo editor. She also helped design and put together The Girls Next Door 2008 calendar. In February 2009, she quit working for the company altogether due to the split from Hefner making her position "awkward.

Madison started writing articles about pets in 2006 for a friend's quarterly magazine, The Coolest Little Pet Magazine. In April 2007, Madison was featured nude in a PETA advertisement.

Madison was chosen to replace Jewel on Dancing with the Stars after Jewel's injury; she partnered with Dmitry Chaplin. Later in the competition, Madison, too, had been injured while practicing. On the March 31, 2009 double elimination show, Holly and Dmitry were voted off.

Madison married Pasquale Rotella at Disneyland on September 10, 2013. They have a daughter named Rainbow Aurora Rotella.

Susan Lucci, 68

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Actress, television host, author and entrepreneur Susan Lucci turns 68 today. Lucci is best known for portraying Erica Kane on the ABC daytime drama All My Children. The iconic character gave Lucci the title of "Daytime's Leading Lady" by TV Guide. In 1996, TV Guide ranked Lucci number 37 on its 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time list.

In 2005, Lucci received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was inducted into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2006. She was named one of VH1’s 200 Top Icons of All-Time and one of Barbara Walters’s Ten Most Fascinating People. She has also played roles in made-for-TV movies including The Woman Who Sinned and French Silk. She hosted many shows and guest starred on television comedy series including Saturday Night Live and Hot in Cleveland.

Lucci also has her own line of hair care products, perfumes, lingerie and skin care, called The Susan Lucci Collection. As of 2012, Lucci hosted Deadly Affairs on Investigation Discovery channel, and currently stars as Genevieve Delatour in the Lifetime television series Devious Maids.

Lucci has been married since September 1969 to Austrian businessman Helmut Huber. They are the parents of soap opera actress Liza Huber (Passions) and Andreas Huber, an aspiring professional golfer. Lucci also has four grandchildren, all from her daughter Liza.