Kirsten Storms

Storms was born in Orlando, Florida and grew up in the Greater Orlando area, mainly Kissimmee, Casselberry and Sanford. She has a younger sister named Gretchen, a brother named Austin and a stepbrother named Chris. She is the daughter of Karen Storms and CBS affiliate sportscaster Mike Storms.[1] According to Storms, she always knew she wanted to be a soap opera actress. At age five she announced:

One of the first agents I got, I told, 'When I grow up, I'm going to be on a soap opera. You can get me commercials and stuff now, but what I really want to do someday is be on a soap opera.' [...] No one took me seriously. But I knew, even though I hadn't actually watched one, it was something I always wanted to do.[1]

After visiting her father at work, Storms convinced her parents to enroll her in acting classes, leading to her discovery by a talent scout at the age of five.[1] The talent scout suggested she be enrolled in an intensive children's acting camp in the Catskills, New York.[1]

Storms' first role was a commercial for Galoob Baby Doll.[1] After appearing in a handful of other commercials, her television career included a recurring role on ABC's Second Noah plus a lead role in Sing Me a Story with Belle. At age twelve, she moved with her family to Los Angeles, California.[1] Soon after that, she landed the recurring role of Laura Cummings on The WB's long-running program 7th Heaven. She appeared in three episodes between 1998 and 2001, in which she played a girlfriend of Simon (played by David Gallagher). She was later chosen to play the title character in Disney Channel's original movie Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century.[1] The movie had the largest rating for any Disney Channel original movie at the time. She later reprised the role in two more sequels. Storms continued to appear in a string of family shows and television movies, including The Trojan Horse, a Hallmark production. She also took a supporting role in Disney's Johnny Tsunami and voiced Bonnie Rockwaller in the Disney Channel animated series Kim Possible.

Storms was pulled over on a Los Angeles freeway on September 7, 2007 by California Highway Patrol for tossing a lit cigarette out of the window of her Mercedes. She was arrested for a DUI following her failure at sobriety tests.[19] Her blood alcohol content was measured at 0.13, above the California legal limit of 0.08.[20] In November 2007, she pleaded no contest to the charges and was ordered to attend twelve Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, complete a 90-day alcohol education program, and pay $1,643 in fines. She also had her license suspended for six months and was placed on three years' probation.[21]

Storms is close friends with General Hospital co-star Kelly Monaco, which was featured in the short-lived E! Entertainment reality show Dirty Soap,[22] which aired during the fall of 2011.[23]

It was confirmed in early 2013 that Storms was in a relationship with her former General Hospital co-star Brandon Barash. In August 2013, the couple confirmed to People that they had secretly wed in June, and were expecting their first and only child, a girl, in January 2014.[24] On January 7, 2014, Barash confirmed on his official Twitter account that Storms had given birth to a baby girl, Harper Rose Barash.[25] On April 6, 2016, Soap Opera Digest revealed that Storms and Barash had filed for divorce after more than two-and-a-half years of marriage citing irreconcilable differences but they will raise their daughter together as they are splitting amicably.[26]

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