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Little Known Facts About Roseanne Barr from the Hit TV show Roseanne

Roseanne Cherrie Barr was born November 3, 1952 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her family consisted of her, father Jerry, mother Helen, sisters Geraldine and Stephanie, and brother Ben. Later in her life, Roseanne Barr accused her mother of molesting her as a child. She also accused her father of molestation that didn’t end until she dropped out of Salt Lake High School East and moved away when she was seventeen. Both parents denied the accusations. She washed dishes at Bennigans restaurant in Colorado and worked at other jobs before she finally made it as a stand-up comedian. In her life, she’s had her ups and downs. Read this eye-opening article and learn some little known facts about Roseanne Barr!

Her Career
Ever since Roseanne Barr became a professional comedian in 1985, her career has expanded to include a long-running #1 hit TV show “Roseanne”, a starring role in the 1984 movie “She-Devil” with Meryl Streep, a starring role in “Backfield in Motion”, a small role in “Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare”, “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” and “Blue in the Face”, just to name a few of her TV and film credits. A little known fact about Roseanne Barr is that the late Mae West, Redd Foxx, and Richard Pryor were three of her own favorite comedians. She now enjoys
Lisa Lampanelli and Sarah ‘Big S’ Silverman.

Barr not only starred in her own show on the ABC network, but she was also listed in the credits at times as being the Creative Consultant, Producer, Co-executive Producer, and Executive Producer. “Roseanne” brought Barr plenty several awards including two Golden Globe Awards, an American Television Award for the “Best Actress in a Comedy Series”and more. Besides fame, the TV sitcom brought Roseanne Barr fortune. A little known fact about Roseanne Barr is that she started out earning $2,500,000 in the first two seasons of her show. The numbers went up as the show went on, and she ended up making $13,000,000 in the final season.

Real Family Life
Roseanne Barr has five children and three ex-husbands. Her first child, a daughter she named “Elisia”, was born when Barr was just eighteen. Unmarried and unable to care for a child, the baby was put up for adoption.

Barr had three more children, Jessica, Jennifer and Jake, when she was married to her long-time hubby Bill Pentland. She married comedian Tom Arnold in 1990. That marriage lasted four years. Finally, she married her ex-bodyguard, Ben Thomas in 1995. She and Thomas wanted to have a child, but Roseanne Barr had previously had a tubal litigation. A little known fact about Roseanne Barr is that she underwent a tubal reversal and vitro fertilization (where the egg is fertilized outside the body and then placed in the uterus) so she could give birth to her youngest son, Buck Thomas. He was born in 1995.

Roseanne Barr and Thomas divorced in 2002. He remarried, and they are neighbors living in El Segundo, California. Barr has four grandchildren.

Personal Changes
The five-foot-four inch Roseanne Barr wore a size 40DD bra until she had breast reduction surgery in 1991. She had her bra size reduced to a 38C. The following year Barr had a facelift too. You may wonder if her becoming a blonde is also part of her “new look.” She insists that it’s covering her gray hair.

Another little known fact about Roseanne Barr is, after her divorce from Tom Arnold, she underwent gastric bypass surgery. She quickly dropped eighty pounds.