What Happened to Jamiee Foxworth?

Former Child Actress Jamiee Foxworth played Judy Winslow, the younger sister of the Winslow, for four seasons of the sitcom Family Matters until the success of Jaleel's character Steve Urkel she was removed from the show until what happened to Jaimee Foxworth.

Here's What Happened to Jamiee Foxworth.

Foxworth was born on December 17, 1979, in Belleville, Illinois. When Foxworth was five, she started off modeling at the age of five and appearing in television commercials. Around the time, she was about to book the role for Family Matters, The show started off the sitcom Perfect Strangers when Harriett Winslow, played by Jo Marie Payton as the elevator operator. The show's producers loved the character Harriette for her great morale and quick-witted humor and decided to create a show that would focus on her and her family, husband Carl, son Eddie, elder daughter Laura, and younger daughter Judy. Foxworth was cast as Judy Winslow, the youngest sibling of the Winslow family. The sitcom focuses on the Winslow family, a middle-class African-American family, and their annoying intelligent nerdy neighbor. Family Matters premiered on September 22, 1989, on ABC network. The sitcom was a hit drawing 21.9 million viewers. Just when the show was doing extremely well, things started to rapidly change. The show was suffering financially and was planning to remove Foxxworth since Urkel had become more popular on the show and had been given more time on the show. She wasn't given less time, like what usually happens to a character during a changing series. She wasn't written off, killed off, or recast, but simply gone. When Season 5 of Family Matters started, Foxworth and Judy Winslow were nowhere to be seen. For five more seasons, we'd get more stories of Steve Urkel and the Winslows, but there was not one mention of Judy. It was as if she never existed, which was not only an insult to the character and the actress who played her, but to the audience. It was told by fans that Judy never mattered. Her last time on the show was when Foxworth said a few dialogues on the episode where the grandmother gets remarried. After that episode, she was gone. After she was fired from Family Matters, Foxworth decided to pursue music. She and her sisters: Tyren Perry and Jania Perry started forming their girl group S.H.E. The group signed with Shaquille O'Neal's label.

Their debut album, 3's A Charm was released in 1997. The album bombed and didn't make it on the Billboard charts. After her girl group flopped, their debut album not succeeding in the Billboard charts, she started working in a fast-food restaurant and barely had any work in the industry.

'Crave'

At age 19, after the sitcom ended, a friend introduced her to the porn industry. She started working on adult porn films under the name Crave. During her pornographic career, Foxworth had lost everything, her self-esteem, her friends, and some of her family members. She stopped making porn films and started abusing drugs and alcohol. She appeared on the first season of "Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew" to get help for her marijuana addiction in 2005.

Life Changing

Foxworth found out she was expecting her first child with her boyfriend. On May 29, 2007, she gave birth to her son and stopped abusing drugs and alcohol. After she had her son, Foxworth became a better mother to her son Michael.

Reunion without Foxworth

Years after Family Matters ended, the cast of Family Matters reunited for an Entertainment Weekly photoshoot. However, Foxworth was left out of the reunion photoshoot.

Fans were shocked to find out that Foxworth was excluded from the reunion photoshoot. Even Foxworth was upset that she was left out of the reunion photoshoot. Foxworth said in an interview that she was never contacted by anyone from Entertainment Weekly.

“I was not invited at all. I wasn’t even contacted. Shawn sent me a text two days before it was released. He asked if anyone contacted me, and he just wanted to let me know that EW contacted them to do a reunion cover. And he just didn’t want me to be shocked when it came out.”

Foxworth believed that the main reason was because she was an adult film star. She calls out Entertainment Weekly for not putting her a part of the reunion photoshoot.

“The people in the picture are more important than the picture itself. It was a slap in the face from Entertainment Weekly. I don’t think there’s any good explanation.”

Foxworth still keeps in touch with half of the cast of Family Matters and hasn't done acting since but has been active on social media. Foxworth never expressed any interest in a Family Matters reboot or coming back to acting however, Foxworth's TV mom Jo Marie Payton expresses that she would do a Family Matters reboot if they bring Foxworth back.

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