Whatever Happened to Amy Smart?

Jun. 6 2019, Updated 1:21 p.m. ET

The early 2000s were a hectic time for actress Amy Smart. After appearing in Varsity Blues and the raunchy comedy Road Trip, she starred in a steady move of industrial, if no longer important, hits spanning the next several years. Who did not love her as Ryan Reynolds' love hobby in Just Friends? 

But yeah, she's indisputably been retaining a lower profile in more recent years.

So what happened to Amy Smart?

Well, first off, Amy didn't in reality move any place, in keeping with se. The 43-year-old Felicity famous person has kept busy with a gradual stream of smaller movies and tv appearances. But she has additionally shifted her priorities in recent years. On her Instagram profile, she lists "Actress" on the ultimate of her many occupations.

In fact, she would likely agree they are indexed in priority order, with being a "dancin' mama bear" and "wifey" taking the front seat, adopted by means of her interest for environmentalism. In reality, she and her husband, Carter Oosterhouse, even made a commitment to get as shut to 0 waste as conceivable with their 2011 wedding in Carter's hometown of Traverse City, Michigan. They managed to finish the affair with lower than a complete bag of trash created via over 2 hundred guests, which is an impressive feat!

They additionally cofounded an eco-friendly mattress and bedding corporate known as Smarthouse, a portmanteau in their two closing names. 

When they met, Amy didn't understand husband Carter Oosterhouse used to be famous.

Fans of Trading Spaces on TLC after all recognize the telegenic chippie for his paintings in remodeling rooms on the home decor show. But now not being a large TV watcher, she did not acknowledge him after they met on a mission for the Environmental Media Awards. “We were given assigned to adopt a faculty lawn in combination,” Amy instructed People. "We met, and we were both in relationships, so we just remained friends. And then we both got out of relationships around the same time, a year ago this summer. And then a year later we got married.”

Amy and Carter welcomed a daughter via surrogate in 2016.

Another reason Amy took a slight step back from her professional life was to focus on starting a family with Carter. But unfortunately she faced "years of fertility struggles" before eventually using a surrogate to carry their daughter, Flora, who was born on December 26, 2016. 

Once her long-anticipated baby was in the world, Amy chose to focus on being a full-time mom for her first couple of years. "I believe so thankful to be a full-time mother, that’s what I’ve chosen,” she informed Us Weekly in November 2018.

The couple also weathered a sexual misconduct allegation together in 2018.

Kailey Kaminsky, a make-up artist who labored with Carter on the set of his former HGTV display Carter Can, instructed the Hollywood Reporter that she felt coerced into appearing oral intercourse on the big name again in 2008, fearing she would lose her activity if she did not give into his "incessant badgering."

Kailey, who identifies as a lesbian, says she gave into his requests "on between 10 and 15 occasions," and the stress she experienced over the placement contributed to her hospitalization for a abdomen ulcer. 

In spite of the severity of the claims in her story, Carter insisted in a observation to Us Weekly that the relationship was once "100 percent mutual and consensual. In no way did I ever feel, nor was it ever indicated to me, that Kailey was uncomfortable during out intimate relationship." 

Amy stands via her husband and defended him in an Instagram post. When asked about the scandal at an appearance on the Environmental Media Association Awards in May 2018, she expressed her strengthen for the #MeToo movement but added, “I additionally know that within peoples’ tales, you'll be able to’t all the time — folks aren’t given truth detector exams ahead of they are interviewed.” 

She added, “And I simply felt really, like I wished to speak up for my husband as a result of I just assume there was a lot of not fact that was once put in the market.”

Amy is returning to the display soon — as a complete supermom.

Now that her daughter is just a little older, Amy seems ready to get again to work, and is currently filming the impending sequence Stargirl, based on the DC Comics character. Amy will play Barbara Whitmore, the mom of Stargirl herself, AKA Courtney Whitmore (played by means of Brec Bassinger).

We can't wait to watch her comeback!

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