Karin Jan Smithers (born July 3, 1949) is an American actress. She is
known for playing Bailey Quarters on the CBS sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati
(1978â€"1982).Smithers grew up with her parents and three sisters in
Woodland Hills, California, and attended what is now William Howard
Taft Charter High School there. She first reached the public eye as a
teenager when she was featured on the March 21, 1966, cover of
Newsweek, seated on a motorcycle.Smithers's first marriage was to Kipp
Whitman from 1971 to 1972. From 1986 to 1995, she was married to actor
James Brolin and was stepmother to his two children from a previous
marriage; together they have one daughter, Molly Elizabeth (b. 1987).
Smithers filed for divorce from Brolin in 1995.
known for playing Bailey Quarters on the CBS sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati
(1978â€"1982).Smithers grew up with her parents and three sisters in
Woodland Hills, California, and attended what is now William Howard
Taft Charter High School there. She first reached the public eye as a
teenager when she was featured on the March 21, 1966, cover of
Newsweek, seated on a motorcycle.Smithers's first marriage was to Kipp
Whitman from 1971 to 1972. From 1986 to 1995, she was married to actor
James Brolin and was stepmother to his two children from a previous
marriage; together they have one daughter, Molly Elizabeth (b. 1987).
Smithers filed for divorce from Brolin in 1995.
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