After graduating from high school, she returned from New Mexico to Los Angeles with her father to pursue acting as a hobby while she went to school to become a surgical technician. However, after her first acting class, she got hooked and began pursuing acting as a career.
Grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Named the "Sexiest Woman Alive" by Esquire magazine [October 11, 2010].
Her secret engagement to Derek Jeter, which became public in January 2010, ended in August 2011.
Graduated from Valley High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1998.
Her grandfather is actor Richard Ney, co-star and ex-husband of Academy
Award-winning actress Greer Garson.