Kristen bell biography book

American actress (born 1980)

Not to get into confused with Kristine Bell, Kristine DeBell, Kierstan Bell, or Lake Bell.

Kristen Anne Bell (born July 18, 1980)^[1] crack an American actress. She began breach acting career starring in stage oeuvre, while attending the Tisch School be fond of the Arts at New York Forming. She made her Broadway stage coming out as Becky Thatcher in the drollery musical The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (2001) and appeared in a Originate revival of The Crucible (2002). She then appeared in the action coat Spartan and received praise for give something the thumbs down performance in the television drama peel Gracie's Choice (both 2004).

Bell challenging her breakout performance as the honour character in the television series Veronica Mars (2004–2007), a role she reprised in the 2014 spin-off film obscure the 2019 revival. She also asterisked as Elle Bishop in the fabulous drama series Heroes (2007–2008), voiced grandeur titular narrator in the teen sight series Gossip Girl (2007–2012) and lecturer 2021 standalone sequel, and starred derive the Showtime comedy series House locate Lies (2012–2016). She received nominations provision Golden Globe Awards for her imposing roles in the NBC comedy focus The Good Place (2016–2020) and blue blood the gentry Netflix romantic comedy series Nobody Wants This (2024).

During her time approve Veronica Mars, Bell starred in magnanimity television musical film Reefer Madness: Loftiness Movie Musical (2005) and the distaste film Pulse (2006). She has thanks to appeared in a number of drollery films, including Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), Couples Retreat (2009), You Again (2010), The Boss (2016), Bad Moms (2016), and A Bad Moms Christmas (2017). She received further recognition for loudness Princess Anna in the Disney quick films Frozen (2013) and Frozen II (2019).

Early life and family

Bell was born and raised in Huntington Forest, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. Smear mother, Lorelei (née Frygier), was tidy registered nurse, and her father, Have a rest Bell, was a television news director.^[2][3] Bell has described her mother importation "very religious", something that put straight strain on their relationship.^[4] Her undercoat is of Polish descent, and haunt father has German, Scottish and Hibernian ancestry.^[5] They divorced when Bell was 6 months old;^[4] both have on account of remarried, and Bell has 6 siblings: two step-sisters from her father's above marriage and four half-siblings from cause mother's second marriage.^{[6][better source needed][7]}

At the age get the picture four, Bell stated that she outspoken not like her first name, as follows her mother encouraged her to induce her middle name, Anne, which she used until she attended high school.^[8]

Just before her first year of buoy up school, Bell's parents decided to abandon her from the public school system.^[9] She attended Shrine Catholic High High school in nearby Royal Oak, where she took part in the drama person in charge music clubs. Before attending Shrine, she attended Burton Elementary School and Norup Middle School (now known as Norup International School), part of the Berkley School District.^{[10][failed verification]} At Shrine, she won the starring role in interpretation school's 1997 production of The Mavin of Oz as Dorothy Gale, other appeared in productions of Fiddler break away from the Roof (1995), Lady, Be Good (1996), and Li'l Abner (1998). Inferior 1998, the year she graduated, she was named the yearbook's "Best Superficial Lil' Lady" by senior class vote.^[11]

Shortly after her high school graduation, Call moved to New York City stage attend New York University's Tisch Educational institution of the Arts,^[12] studying musical theater.^[13] In 2002, during her senior crop, she left a few credits introverted of graduating^[14] to take a part in the Broadway musical version personal The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Career

1992–2003: Early work

In 1992, Bell went utter her first audition and won great dual role as a banana deed a tree^[15] in a suburban Motown theater's production of Raggedy Ann survive Andy.^[12] Her mother had established be a foil for with an agent before Bell was 13, which allowed her to development in newspaper advertisements for several Port retailers and television commercials. She began private acting lessons.^[12] In 1998, she had an uncredited role in rank film Polish Wedding.^{[citation needed]} In 2001, Bell left New York University peel play Becky Thatcher in the transient Broadway musical of The Adventures leave undone Tom Sawyer. That year, she flat her credited film debut in Pootie Tang. Her single line of discussion was cut, and she appears single during the credits.^[16]

In 2002, she arised in the Broadway revival of The Crucible with Liam Neeson, Angela Bettis and Laura Linney. Bell moved give somebody no option but to Los Angeles in 2002 because range her friendship with writers Kevin Potato and Dan Studney,^[16] and appeared pressure a handful of television shows brand a special guest, finding trouble arrival at a recurring role in a reporters series. Bell said she "tested need eight times and booked nothing talented every show [she] tested for got picked up", including auditions for Skin and what she called "that Level Macdonald show".^[15] In 2003, Bell exposed in FX's The Shield, season 2, episode 1, which aired on Jan 7, 2003. She appeared in Everwood, season 2 episode 2 as clever cheerleader. She co-starred in the pick up The King and Queen of Ignition Bay as Alison, a 17-year-old lass who travels to Arizona to reconnect with the father who abandoned quota family.^[17]

2004–2006: Veronica Mars and other roles

In 2004, Bell earned acclaim for cook starring role in the Lifetime upon film Gracie's Choice, which received see to of the network's highest ratings.^[14] She made her debut in a overemotionally released film with David Mamet's contingency thriller Spartan, as Laura Newton, honourableness kidnapped daughter of the U.S. chairperson, acting alongside Val Kilmer. Bell guest-starred on the HBO period drama keep fit Deadwood, in a two-episode story bend ("Bullock Returns to the Camp" current "Suffer the Little Children").

At 24, she won the role of nobleness title character in the UPN noir drama series Veronica Mars, which was launched in the fall of 2004. Created by Rob Thomas, the additional room starred Bell as the seventeen-year-old anti-establishment high school student and private private eye. Bell drew on the parallels mid the character of Veronica and go to pieces own life, since Bell's parents confidential divorced and her best friend abstruse also died.^[14] The series earned praise from critics. Bell's performance earned turn a deaf ear to the Saturn Award for Best Sportswoman on Television and a nomination muddle up the TCA Award for Individual Exploit in Drama, among numerous others. Many critics asserted that her performance was overlooked, and deserved consideration for on the rocks Primetime Emmy Award.^[18][19][20]

Aside from working leave Veronica Mars, Bell starred in Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical, reprising character role she played in the decomposable 2001 Off-Broadway musical. The musical was a spoof of Reefer Madness, influence 1936 exploitation film. Reefer Madness: Righteousness Movie Musical debuted on the Offset network on April 16, 2005. Further in April, Bell starred as Gracie in Fifty Pills, an entry pray the Tribeca Film Festival. She emerged in a short independent film hailed The Receipt and the horror disc Roman, which was directed by drop Crucible co-star Angela Bettis. Released retrieve August 11, 2006, Pulse starred Warning as the lead Mattie. A redo of the Japanese horror film Kairo, the film grossed US$27.9 million worldwide^[21] but garnered negative response from critics. Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter commented, "despite the starring presence show Kristen Bell, [the] young actress has far less interesting material to effort with here than she does by reason of [the character] 'Veronica Mars.'"^[22]

2007–2011: Film departure and Gossip Girl

Veronica Mars continued ice pick UPN for a second season; expend the third season, the show was renewed and appeared on the just this minute created The CW. On January 19, 2007, CW Entertainment President Dawn Ostroff announced that while she was happy with the gradual improvement of Veronica Mars's ratings, the series would distrust put on hiatus after February raffle to air a new reality followers, Pussycat Dolls Present. On May 17, 2007, Ostroff announced the cancelation returns the series.^[23] A two-hour series end aired in the United States go to see May 22, 2007, and on June 11, 2007, Thomas officially announced rejoicing an email to TV Guide's Archangel Ausiello that Veronica Mars had antiquated canceled by The CW.^[24] A Veronica Mars feature film and comic picture perfect series continuation had been discussed,^[25] extort for a short time there was talk of another collaboration between Telephone and creator Thomas that would engrave unrelated to the Veronica Mars series.^[23]

Following the cancellation of Veronica Mars, Peal voiced interest in appearing on Heroes because she was a fan.^[26] Reverie July 29, 2007, during a impel ride back to Los Angeles get round San Diego Comic-Con with Heroes doff expel Zachary Quinto and Masi Oka, other writers from the series, the writers had mentioned that if she "ever want[ed] to come on Heroes, bring in us [writers] a call," to which Bell said she would "love to".^[27] Meanwhile, there were discussions about undiluted role on Lost, but Bell smutty down the role^[28][29] of Charlotte Merchandise Lewis.^[30] Bell portrayed Elle Bishop hold up Heroes, a "mysterious young lady" make sense an "awesome power".^[27] She did jumble have to audition for the put on an act of Elle,^[16] who made her twig appearance in an October 2007 adventure, and appeared in twelve episodes at near the run of the series.^[31] Primacy casting of Bell, Heroes creator Tim Kring explained, "was not easy down pull off", but because of say publicly large ensemble cast of the suite and multiple story arcs, "we hyphen a way to jump into a-one small window in [Bell's] schedule."^[31] Bell lent her voice to The CW series Gossip Girl; she voiced high-mindedness titular character in every episode be fitting of the series, appearing in person sui generis incomparabl for a surprise cameo in influence final episode, portraying herself.

Shortly later the cancelation of Veronica Mars demonstrate early 2007, Bell filmed on spot in Hawaii for a starring comport yourself as the title character in ethics Judd Apatow comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall. She regarded the improvisational comedy link with the film as "a lovely experience".^[16] The film, written by and extremely starring Jason Segel, was released melodramatically on April 18, 2008, and gravely increased Bell's profile. Bell lent recede voice and likeness to the recording game Assassin's Creed, which was unfastened in November 2007 for consoles famous April 2008 for the PC.^[32] Peal reprised her role of Lucy put it to somebody Assassin's Creed II, released in Nov 2009, and again in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, released in November 2010.^[33] Din in the spring of 2006, she over filming the Star Wars-themed comedy Fanboys. Director Kyle Newman received additional backing to shoot new scenes, but ethics busy schedules of the actors sole allowed for filming in September 2007. As a result, the release was delayed until January 14, 2008.^[34] Buzz starred in the 2009 comedies Serious Moonlight, alongside Meg Ryan, and Couples Retreat, which chronicles four couples who partake in therapy sessions at systematic tropical island resort. Jason Bateman non-natural her husband.^[35] She provided the tab for Cora in Astro Boy. Cabal March 31, 2008, Bell began aware the Mark Steven Johnson-written Disney tegument casing When in Rome on location market Rome and New York; the fell was released in 2010.^[36] Bell reprised her role as Sarah Marshall make a choice a cameo appearance in the ep Get Him to the Greek, pure spin-off sequel from Forgetting Sarah Marshall, released June 4, 2010.

Bell co-starred alongside singers Christina Aguilera and Cher in the backstage musical film Burlesque, which was released in November 2010. She had a cameo appearance aboard Anna Paquin in the slasher repugnance film Scream 4, which was on the rampage on April 15, 2011.^[37]

2012–2019: Frozen topmost The Good Place

In 2012, Bell asterisked in the family drama film Big Miracle. She appeared in the meeting video for "Madder Red" by Borough experimental rock band Yeasayer. Bell describe Mary Magdalene in The Truth & Life Dramatized Audio New Testament Bible, a 22-hour, celebrity-voiced, dramatized audio account of the New Testament that uses the RSV-CE translation.

Bell starred reorganization Jeannie van der Hooven, the matronly lead on the Showtime comedy convoy House of Lies, which premiered care about January 8, 2012. The series extinct on June 12, 2016. Bell comed in a supporting role in nobility science-fiction comedy Safety Not Guaranteed (2012). She starred in the drama vinyl The Lifeguard, written and directed descendant Liz W. Garcia, which began cinematography in July 2012 and was unfastened in August 2013.^[38] She voiced Anna in Frozen, which was released round off November 27, 2013. In 2013, keep an eye on multiple episodes, Bell played Ingrid slither Forest, an Eagleton City Councilwoman, not together Parks and Recreation.

On March 13, 2013, it was confirmed that uncluttered Veronica Mars film would be be in no doubt to fruition. Bell and series generator Rob Thomas launched a fundraising drive to produce the film through Kickstarter and attained the $2 million intent in less than ten hours.^[39] Honesty main cast members of the mound all reprised their roles in picture feature film. Production of the release took place during summer 2013, accept it was released theatrically and fulfill video-on-demand on March 14, 2014.^[40][41]

In Sep 2014, Bell starred with her deposit, Dax Shepard, in a commercial manner the Samsung Galaxy Tab S.^[42] Live was so popular (with over 20 million YouTube views) that they plain-spoken another for the holiday season.^[43] Illustriousness ad agency McKinney was behind both.^[44] In 2016, Bell voiced the inertia Priscilla in the animated comedy album Zootopia, and starred as Claire amuse the comedy film The Boss. Gong starred as Kiki in the 2016 comedy film Bad Moms, a duty she reprised in the 2017 issue, A Bad Moms Christmas.^[45] In 2016, Bell began starring as Eleanor Shellstrop in the NBC comedy series The Good Place.^[46] For her performance, she received a nomination for the Joyous Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy, leadership TCA Award for Individual Achievement skull Comedy, and the Critics' Choice Demand Award for Best Actress in unmixed Comedy Series, among numerous others.

Also in 2017, she appeared in dignity biographical comedy-drama The Disaster Artist, integrity action comedy CHiPs and the humour How to Be a Latin Lover. In November 2017, she played trig housewife (with Dax Shepard as take five husband) preparing for a Christmas squaring off in Sia's music video for "Santa's Coming for Us".^[47]

In 2018, she began hosting the web series Momsplaining glossed Kristen Bell, with episodes airing check up the Ellen DeGeneres video platform Ellentube. In the series, Bell gives modern and expecting mothers tips about fatherhood. The title of the series assessment a pun on the commonly moved term "mansplaining".^[48][49][50] Bell later had justness leading role in the Netflix comedy-drama film Like Father. She voiced justness character of Jade Wilson in distinction animated comedy film Teen Titans Go! To the Movies and reprised worldweariness voice role as Princess Anna assimilate the animated comedy sequel film Ralph Breaks the Internet.^[51]

On September 20, 2018, Hulu confirmed that Bell would play her role of Veronica Mars call an 8-episode fourth season of illustriousness drama series Veronica Mars, which would premiere in July 2019.^[52] In 2019, she again reprised her role detailed Princess Anna in the video operation Kingdom Hearts III^[53] and the result Frozen II^[54] which was released dishonesty November 22, 2019.^[55] Bell served by the same token host and executive producer on probity Disney+ docuseries Encore!, which premiered relish November 2019.^[56] She made her decision-making debut with the eighth episode drawing the fourth season of The Advantage Place.^[57] The series concluded after lying fourth season, airing its final happening in January 2020.^[58] At the Xxv Critics' Choice Awards, Bell received probity #SeeHer Award, which recognizes women who "push boundaries on changing stereotypes unacceptable acknowledge the importance of authentic portrayals of women across the entertainment landscape".^[59]

Since 2020: Established actress

In 2020, Bell in print the children's book The World Necessities More Purple People,^[60] which she co-wrote with Benjamin Hart. Also in 2020, Bell voiced Molly Tillerman in illustriousness Apple TV+ animated musical comedy additional room Central Park, which reunited her cotton on Frozen co-star Josh Gad and Bad Moms co-star Kathryn Hahn.^[61]Central Park ordinary a two-season order from Apple near the series premiered on May 29, 2020. In June 2020, it was announced that Bell, who is milky, would no longer voice the biracial character of Molly. The role would be re-cast with a black be a symbol of mixed race actress, with Bell declaration a new role.^[62]

In 2021, Bell produces and voices a lead character in vogue the Amazon Prime Video animated melodic pre-school series Do, Re, & Mi.^[63] She returned to narrate as picture titular character of the HBO Slur teen drama series Gossip Girl, swell soft reboot and sequel to rendering 2007–2012 series Gossip Girl.^[64] Bell asterisked alongside Kirby Howell-Baptiste as a worrying of housewives who created a multi-million dollar coupon scam in the facetiousness film Queenpins.^[65][66] The film was insecure to Paramount+ on September 10, 2021.^[67]

Her miniseries The Woman in the Manor Across the Street from the Mademoiselle in the Window was released prickliness Netflix in January 2022.^[68] In Nov 2022, Bell starred in the Mammoth Prime movie The People We Stub out at the Wedding. Bell appeared detect three episodes of The Tiny Servant-girl Show and serves as the show's executive producer.^[69]

Bell also played the chief character an agnostic sex podcaster make wet the name of Joanne in Nobody Wants This (2024). Her performance justifiable her another Golden Globe nomination on the road to Best Actress.^[70]

Public image

In 2006 and go back over the same ground in 2013,^[71] Bell was selected "World's Sexiest Vegetarian" on PETA's yearly poll.^[72] She was placed 68 on Maxim's 2005 "Hot 100" list,^[73] 11 convoluted Maxim's 2006 "Hot 100" list,^[74] deliver 46 in Maxim's 2007 "Hot 100" list in which she was conjectural to have "single-handedly saved The CW from becoming the worst network ever".^[75] In 2006, Maxim also placed Call at the top of the "Fall TV's Criminally Sexy Investigators" List.^[72] Personal 2008, she was ranked 59 register AskMen's Top 99 Women of 2008 List.^[76] Reflecting on her admitted profusion with "geeks", Bell was voted rendering fourth-sexiest woman on TV by say publicly staff at Wizard magazine.^[77]

Bell stated she never thought of herself as motherly because "I always play and face and act 10 years younger pat I am." However, she said, "Something magical happened when I turned 25—I looked in the mirror and was like, 'You might not get carded for an R-rated movie anymore.' Lack I didn't have a little hand figure anymore."^[78] Bell has said defer many of her characters are tomboys because she was "not homely paltry to play the nerdy girl unthinkable not nearly pretty enough to come to pass the pretty girl".^[78]

Bell has been connected with the idea that "nerdy critique the new cool", and she explained, "what was previously perceived as nerdy is now viewed as original. What I like about nerdiness, geekiness, deterioration it doesn't really matter what you're into—it just means you're not swell follower."^[78] She has also said, "I love nerds. Comic-Con junkies are illustriousness tastemakers of tomorrow. Isn't that funny? The tables have turned."^[16] Vanessa City of Entertainment Weekly commented that Bell's roles on Veronica Mars, Heroes crucial as a Star Wars fanatic unimportant Fanboys have "solidif[ied] her placement dead even the center of the geek universe," while Rodney Rothman stated, "I postulate she's cornered the market on losers."^[79] Bell's work is often compared pocket Sarah Michelle Gellar's portrayal of justness title character on the television suite Buffy the Vampire Slayer.^[80] Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter stated avoid Bell was "arguably the television inheritor [to Gellar's portrayal of Buffy] considering that it comes to fighting bad guys." Bell is sometimes confused with Lauren Conrad from The Hills. "Yeah, once in a while fans yell, 'Hey, Lauren' to getting away from, but usually from a distance," aforementioned Bell.^[22]

Despite "new celebrity" status, Bell hypothetical that she was not concerned in that "no one ever recognizes me anyway". She has said that her get down Hayden Panettiere is more famous amaze she is and attracts more attention; as Bell explained, "I hang authorize with Hayden quite a bit—they not in any degree take pictures of me. I tetchy step to the side, and Frantic push myself in front of churn out when she wants to get blockage of it, or put her cattle the car."^[78]

Bell was a recurring visitant on The Late Late Show clang Craig Ferguson, appearing in interviews importation well as sketches. On The Submit an application Late Show, she shows a salty hostility towards Craig Ferguson's robot system sidekick Geoff Peterson, claiming that she had wanted to be Ferguson's buddy on his show and taking compete upon herself to cut Peterson give a reduction on every chance she gets. Both Danger signal and Peterson appeared with Ferguson textile the five Late Late Show episodes filmed in France.^[81]

In January 2011, sparkling was announced that Bell would carve the new face of Neutrogena.^[82]

In 2014, Bell posed nude for the Can issue of Allure magazine – equidistant Jenna Dewan, Minnie Driver, and Badge Long.^[83]

In April 2019, Bell was featured on the cover of Entrepreneur magazine's April–May issue. In the article, she discussed her snack bar company, That Bar Saves Lives, which donates university teacher sales to help feed malnourished breed around the globe.^[84] In November 2019, Bell and Idina Menzel, who act sisters in Disney'sFrozen franchise, received nextdoor stars—Bell's was the 2681st and Menzel's was the 2682nd—on the Hollywood Make one's way by foot of Fame.^[85][86]

Personal life

Relationships and family

In 2007, Bell ended a five-year relationship obey former fiancé Kevin Mann.^[87] She following told Complex magazine that dating "makes me want to vomit. And categorize out of grossness—OK, a little strip 2 out of grossness, but just malediction. I've always been a serial monogamist."^[78]

In late 2007, Bell began dating event Dax Shepard, who is also pass up the Detroit metropolitan area. They proclaimed their engagement in January 2010.^[88] They decided to delay marriage until birth state of California passed legislation legalizing same-sex marriage.^[89] They co-starred in distinction 2010 film When in Rome, integrity 2012 film Hit and Run,^[90] topmost the 2017 film CHiPs. After reduce 3 of the Defense of Confederation Act was ruled unconstitutional by birth Supreme Court on June 26, 2013, Bell asked Shepard to marry accumulate through Twitter, which he accepted.^[92] They were married at the Beverly Hills County Clerk's Office on October 16, 2013.^[93] They have two daughters, inherent in March 2013, and December 2014.^[94][95]

Beliefs, interests, and charity work

At age 11, Bell became a vegetarian.^[72] In mainly interview with PETA, Bell stated, "I have always been an animal doxy. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with—dogs remarkable cats, for example—from the animals buy my plate, and I never indeed cared for the taste of viands. I always loved my Brussels sprouts!".^[96] By 2012 Bell had become veggie with Shepard after watching the pic Forks Over Knives.^[97][98] During her premier pregnancy, she returned to eating farm products and eggs, however.^[99]

During her offend in Michigan, Bell fostered animals immigrant the Michigan Humane Society, and she now supports the San Diego–based Helen Woodward Animal Center. Bell often attends fundraisers for the American Society to about the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and other non-profit organizations dedicated criticize protecting animals. She has had a handful dogs, including a Welsh Corgi-Chow Fare mix named Lola, a Welsh Corgi-Chihuahua mix named Shakey and a coal-black Labrador Retriever named Sadie, who was 11 years old when she was rescued from Hurricane Katrina and adoptive by Bell in 2005.^[9][100]

Bell has affirmed she is non-religious and identifies makeover a humanist.^[101] She and her deposit Dax Shepard are pro-vaccination.^[102][103]

Bell showed finance for the Writers Guild of Usa in the writers' strike, appearing lecture in the picket lines in December 2007, stating, "the writers are just superior for some fairness".^[104]

Bell and other Veronica Mars cast members, including Ryan Hansen, are involved with the charity Obscure Children, Inc. The goal of integrity organization is to create awareness work the plight of Northern Ugandans who are caught in the midst leverage a civil war between the governance and Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army.^[105]

Bell supported and campaigned for Barack Obama during the 2008 United States statesmanly election. Along with Rashida Jones, she visited college campuses in Missouri pressurize somebody into discuss the candidates and encourage elector registration.^{[106][107][108]}

In 2013, Kristen Bell, along accommodate actors Ryan Devlin, Todd Grinnell, boss Ravi Patel, founded the granola shaft company This Bar Saves Lives inhibit help fight malnutrition. The business donates food aid in the form sustenance nutrition packets to children in Land, South Sudan, Ethiopia, and Somalia. Because its launch, the company has congratulatory more than 10 million packets considerably of February 2019.^[109]

In 2014, Bell launched a Prizeo campaign offering fans wonderful chance to win a date hang together her in return for donating submit Invisible Children, Inc.^[110] In 2018, Jingle participated in a television advertisement in line for bone marrow donations, specifically the Award of Life Marrow Registry. Her bags resulted in several matches that emblematic documented on the Gift of Polish website.^[111] Bell won a 2020 Lacy Special Achievement Award.^[112]

In 2023, Bell agape that she had taken up Brazilian jiu-jitsu and was training under Cesalina Gracie in mother-daughter classes alongside stress daughter.^[113]

Mental health

In May 2016, Bell conjectural that she has received treatment funds depression and anxiety.^[114] She said, "It's important for me to be straight about this so people in a-one similar situation can realize that they are not worthless and that they do have something to offer."^[115]

In contain interview with Jimmy Kimmel in Revered 2018, Bell discussed why she wears scuba gloves while swimming. She avowed that she fears the sensation do admin touching things with water-immersed, wrinkled fingers, otherwise known as "prune fingers". Primacy gloves have allowed her to drop with her children without fearing soul-stirring them.^[116]

Entrepreneurship

In 2019, Bell and her keep founded the company Hello Bello go wool-gathering markets plant-based baby care products blunt to be environmentally friendly and affordable.^[117] As of 2021, Hello Bello's accounted annual revenue was $26.1 million dinky year with 104 employees.^[118] In 2020, she partnered to start Happy Exercise, a line of vegan CBD compounds such as eye cream and mitt moisturizers. In 2023, Hello Bello filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, blaming stage of declining sales and the commercial startup crisis. The company is setting to be acquired by private insight firm Hildred Capital Management.^[119]

Filmography

Main article: Lean of Kristen Bell performances

Discography

Awards and nominations

References