Cheryl Saban | |
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Born |
Cheryl Lynn Flor April 30, 1951 San Diego, California, U.S. |
Residence | Beverly Hills, California, U.S. |
Education | PhD California Coast University |
Alma mater | San Diego State University |
Occupation | Playboy Model, Psychologist, author, philanthropist |
Board member of | Clinton Foundation |
Spouse(s) | 3, including Haim Saban (m. 1987) |
Children | 4, including Tifanie Lenhart Chaney and Heidi Lenhart Stills |
Cheryl Saban (/səˈbɑːn/; born April 30, 1951) is a 1979 Playboy model, an American psychologist, author, and philanthropist. She is a former Senior Advisor to the United States Mission to the United Nations. She is the author of several children's books and self-help books. She is the president of the Saban Family Foundation, and the founder of the Cheryl Saban Self-Worth Foundation for Women & Girls.
Cheryl Saban was born as Cheryl Lyn Flor on April 30, 1951 in San Diego, California. Her father worked for the local telephone company. Saban worked as a telephone solicitor, waitressed at a barbecue-pit restaurant, and worked summers as a lifeguard at a Navy training center.
Saban attended San Diego State University. In 2005 she earned a doctorate in psychology from California Coast University, a for profit online college
Saban started her career as a model in San Francisco, California in 1973 and Los Angeles in 1975. She recorded her first album in 1978 under the name Flower. In 1979, Playboy included her in a nude pictorial titled “Disco Queens". In April 1979 she posed nude for Playboy Magazine's Disco Queens pictorial. At the time she was an aspiring disco singer named Flower.
Saban accepted a job as an assistant for Israeli-American Haim Saban, a self-made millionaire who later became her husband, in 1986. She wrote for television multiple times, including 19 episodes of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, produced by Saban. She is the author of four children's books, a thriller, and several self-help books. She is a member of the American Psychological Association.