Background
Sykes is the daughter of an International Business Machines Corporation executive and a school teacher.
Sykes is the daughter of an International Business Machines Corporation executive and a school teacher.
Sykes graduated from the Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Massachusetts. She graduated from Pine Manor College in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1979.
Sykes worked as an assistant at an investment firm and paralegal for a large law firm before her career in the entertainment business. Busty Heart earned her nickname in high school, by which point her naturally oversized breasts were evident. Her first claim to fame was as a spectator at a Boston Celtics game in 1986.
She had been given free tickets to a Celtics game, which happened to be seated next to National Basketball Association prospect John Salley.
As Columbia Broadcasting System"s cameras spotted Salley in the crowd, Sykes shook her breasts at the camera, breaking Brent Musburger"s attention and prompting him to break into laughter. Sykes, who had previously been self-conscious about her large breasts and had otherwise avoided public appearances because of them, soon “parlayed 15 seconds of fame into a 30-year-career” and became a regular at Celtics games.
She mostly ceased appearing at sporting events in 1990, when the Saint Louis Cardinals management accused her of public lewdness after attending a Cardinals game. Busty Heart appeared on the season finale of America"s Got Talent (National Broadcasting Company) on October 1, 2008.
She also appeared on Rude Tube on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom in November 2008.
Among her most famous television appearances, she was on Comedy Central"s The Manitoba Show, where she demonstrated her talent for crushing beer cans by slamming her breasts on top of them. Busty Heart has done numerous television shows, including Fox-television"s That"s Just Wrong, The World Bank"s Steve Harvey-hosted Steve Harvey"s Big Time Challenge season finale, Endemol television"s Private Parts on Channel 5 in England, truTV"s World"s Dumbest, Bravo television"s Outrageous and Contagious Viral Videos, Fuji television Tokyo Japan "2006 Bakademy Awards", East!"s Talk Soup, and 2007 Spike television MANswers. East! named a Busty Heart clip the #14 best video clip of 2005.
On July 1, 2008, she demonstrated her "talents" on the third season of America"s Got Talent, and received unanimous "Number" votes.
However, during 2010"s German talent show Das Supertalent, she received all "yes" votes from the judges and even reached the semi-final round,(Top 40 out of 41000 auditioners) where she missed the final because of the audience"s voting. Busty Heart appeared in the film The Dictator.
She plays the role of Etra, one of the titular dictator"s bodyguards who uses her breasts as weapons. Since 1996, Busty Heart has operated "Busty Heart"s Place," a strip club located in Turtle Point, Pennsylvania.