Background
Involved in modeling since her teens, she was born on February 17, 1972 in a suburb of Chicago called Downers Groove and spent her early life there completing her eighth grade at Herrick Junior High School before relocated to San Diego, California where her parents, Irving and Joni Richards, ran a chain of coffeehouses called Jitters while the girl herself continued her study at Oceanside's El Camino. It was not until this blue-eyed beauty earned her graduation from the institution in 1989 that she ultimately took full force to flourish her modeling career, going around the cities of Paris, Tokyo, and New York besides becoming a make-up girl for Bonne Bell cosmetics also a model in numerous swimsuit magazines.
Though her future in the field seemingly looked promising, Denise instead decided to make a turn in her life and thus set her eyes on acting upon landed her feet in Los Angeles. Fortunately, the first step was not really difficult to be commenced as she quickly earned ...