Jeeyoon Huh (허지윤), better known as Stephanie Huh, was born on January 13, 1986 and is an American student and entertainer whose career took off in the early 2000s. Her legendary exploits have garnered a loyal following, and took on an international dimension when she spent a year on a tour across Korea and the United Kingdom beginning in 2005. She has since returned to the United States in 2006 and currently maintains residences in both Chicago and Buffalo. In 2005, Huh made People magazine's list of the 50 Most Beautiful People. [1173] Huh also serves as spokesperson for Tampax Pearl tampons and travels with the Pearl Girls, four self-selected dancers who help promote the product.

Early Life

Born in South Korea, Huh immigrated to the United States with her parents and younger brother when she was young, her father Wonsu a Presbyterian church elder and her mother a small shopkeeper, and they settled in the Buffalo suburban hamlet of Getzville in upstate New York where she has lived for most of her life.

Later Years

She matriculated at the University of Chicago, and it is at an informational session for the then-incoming Class of 2007 where she met Jamil Barton-Harris. Huh was quoted in saying that there was an irresistable chemistry between them that summer, and in August 2003, they flew to Atlantic City and eloped. It was also that month when their sex tape, filmed with Barton-Harris' cell phone camera, was leaked to the public and widely circulated on the Internet. The marriage was later deemed invalid because Huh was a minor and they separated shortly afterwards citing irreconciliable differences, but the two have remained close friends.

In the summer of 2005, she launched her global tour beginning with an emotional return to her homeland in Seoul. There she was introduced to hip-hop mogul Danny "The Danster" Park. Park and Huh collaborated to produce several of the #1 hits in Korea, Japan, and Cambodia that year, including "Where Have All the Seoul Days Gone?" and the ballad tribute to R. Kelly "Feelin' on Yo' Booty Once More," making her one of the small handful to have a successful career in comedy and music. Unfortunately, the singles' releases in North America and Europe experienced lackluster sales, though the latter became the theme song for the cancelled BBC-series "Paedo." Following her performances in Asia, undaunted, she continued to Europe, also studying economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. It is at LSE where she met her current romantic interest Matt Boys, a fellow student, and the two have been spotted on holiday in posh vacation spots like Stratford-upon-Avon.

Huh is known for a comedic style that is marked by utter spontaneity and sheer ridiculousness, and in live performances, she has acknowledged her large gay following.

Presently, she shares a flat with her closest confidantes, Semhar Amdemichael, Beth Dobias, and Maomao Zhang as well as Kai Wright across the hall on the 5600 block of South Drexel Avenue, a select location in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The five are currently in collaboration with MTV to create a reality television series tentatively-titled The Children's Apartment.