Jodie Sweetin

Sweetin was born in Los Angeles, California. While an infant, her parents were sent to prison and she was adopted and raised as an only child by her uncle Sam Sweetin and his second wife Janice when she was nine months old.^[3] Her father died in a prison riot.^[4] Years later, she said she was told not to talk about her adoption publicly out of fear that people would think she was forced into acting.^[5]

As a child, Sweetin took dance lessons,^[6] including ballet and tap when she was three years old.^[7]

In 1999, four years after Full House ended, Sweetin graduated from Los Alamitos High School in Los Alamitos, California, and attended Chapman University in Orange, California.^[1] While in high school, Sweetin and fellow actor Matthew Morrison performed in musical theater together.^[8]

She began her career by appearing in several national commercials for companies such as restaurant chain Sizzler in 1987.^[9] Sweetin was cast in a guest role in the sitcom Valerie as Pamela, the niece of Mrs. Poole (Edie McClurg). Jeff Franklin cast her as Stephanie Tanner in the ABC comedy series Full House, and she played that role until the show ended in 1995. Sweetin played the role of Stephanie Tanner from age five until she was 13 years old.^[4]

Sweetin returned to television by hosting the second season of the Fuse dance competition show Pants-Off Dance-Off. She starred in the television pilot, Small Bits of Happiness, a dark comedy centered around a suicide prevention specialist; it won Best Comedy at the 3rd Annual Independent Television Festival, in Los Angeles. In 2009, Sweetin focused on independent films and appeared in two films: Port City and Redefining Love. In 2011, she appeared in five web episodes in the Internet show Can't Get Arrested. In 2012, she appeared as Leia in the television film Singled Out.

In 2015, it was announced Sweetin would reprise her role as Stephanie Tanner on the Netflix spin-off series Fuller House, which ended after five seasons in 2020.^[10][11] On March 2, 2016, Sweetin was announced as one of the celebrities to compete on Dancing with the Stars for season 22.^[12] Her professional dance partner was Keo Motsepe. Sweetin and Motsepe were eliminated in week eight of the competition and finished in sixth place. On April 12, 2017, she starred in Hollywood Darlings, an unscripted docu-comedy series for Pop, where she plays an exaggerated version of herself.^[13] The series ran for two seasons and concluded on June 6, 2018.

In 2019, Sweetin started a podcast called Never Thought I'd Say This on parenting alongside Celia Behar, a licensed mental health counselor and Sweetin's best friend.^[14]

In 2022, Sweetin competed on CBS's Beyond the Edge,^[15] the seventh celebrity edition of Food Network's Worst Cooks in America: That's So'90s,^[16] and the second season of FOX's Name That Tune.

In 2023, Sweetin appeared in a television commercial for Sizzler, 36 years after her first commercial for the restaurant chain.^[9]

In 2002, at age 20, Sweetin married her first husband, Los Angeles Police officer Shaun Holguin. Fellow Full House castmate Candace Cameron served as her matron of honor; Cameron's daughter, Natasha, served as a flower girl.^[17] Sweetin and Holguin divorced in 2006.^[18]

Sweetin met Cody Herpin, a film transportation coordinator, through friends, and they started dating in May 2007. They were married in Las Vegas, Nevada on July 14, 2007.^[19] Together they have one daughter.^[20] On November 19, 2008, Sweetin filed for legal separation from Herpin.^[21] Their divorce was finalized on April 20, 2010.^[22]

In 2010, Sweetin and her boyfriend of one year, Morty Coyle, had a daughter.^[23][24] Sweetin and Coyle became engaged in January 2011,^[25] and married on March 15, 2012, in Beverly Hills.^[26] Sweetin filed for legal separation from Coyle in June 2013.^[27] The divorce was finalized in September 2016.^[28]

On January 22, 2016, she announced her engagement to Justin Hodak,^[29] who, like Sweetin, is a recovering drug addict.^{[30][better source needed]} By March 2017, Sweetin was granted an emergency restraining order against him, and on March 24, Sweetin announced the couple's separation,^[31] after Hodak violated the restraining order. Hodak was sentenced on related charges a few weeks later.^[32]

On January 17, 2022, she announced her engagement to Mescal Wasilewski.^[33] They were married on July 30, 2022.^[34]

In 2018, during Brett Kavanaugh's nomination hearings, Sweetin revealed on her Instagram account that she had been sexually abused in the past.^[35]