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Tempestt Bledsoe (born August 1, 1973) is an American actress best known for her role as Vanessa Huxtable in the popular 1980s sitcom, The Cosby Show.

In the mid-1990s, she enjoyed a short-lived stint as the host of her own daytime talk show, Tempestt. More recently, she has been featured in the role of a single mother on the ABC show The Practice and the Lifetime show Strong Medicine.

In television interviews, she is often asked about and speaks of her experiences as a child star together with her co-stars Bill Cosby, Phylicia Rashad, Lisa Bonet, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Sabrina Le Beauf, and Raven-Symone.

Bledsoe is mentioned in Stephen Levitt's Freakonomics as an example of her first name being mistaken for "Temptress". She was a contestant on VH1's Celebrity Fit Club in 2006. On the 8 episode, 100 day program, Tempestt had reached a 21 lb. weight loss on episode 7, however, gained 2 pounds the following, final, episode, puting her weight loss total at 19 lbs. Tempestt was traded off her team in week 6.

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