Source: ABC Photo Archives\/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nShelley Smith, born on October 25, 1952, in Princeton, New Jersey, established a flourishing modeling career after graduating from Connecticut College. She graced the pages of prominent magazines such as Vogue and Harper\u2019s Bazaar. Transitioning to acting in 1979, Smith appeared in TV shows and made guest appearances on several series until the early 1990s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Later, she obtained a master’s degree in psychology, becoming a marriage and family therapist. Smith’s legacy includes founding The Egg Donor Program, which helped countless couples achieve parenthood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shelley Smith, a well-known supermodel turned actress, has sadly passed away at the age of 70. Known for her sitcom role opposite Martin Short and frequent appearances on game shows like The $10,000 Pyramid, she also established an egg-donor program to aid couples struggling with infertility. Smith’s husband, actor Michael Maguire, shared the news of […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":19238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[946,13,11],"tags":[4589,912,774,328,4586,4584,1294,1607,1444,1519,4587,112,2841,1202,4582,4585,4588,4583,1608,84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19240,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19235\/revisions\/19240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}