A painter and sculptor, Feinstein is also the buxom inspiration behind many of hubby John Currin's paintings.

Feinstein took art lessons from her grandmother and had a couple of bit parts on Miami Vice before moving to New York to attend Columbia. She majored in theology and studied art with sculptor Kiki Smith, working as a bartender at Bar Six on the side. In 1994, when she was 23, Feinstein met her future husband John Currin at a group show where she was exhibiting a "gingerbread" house made of Styrofoam in which she wore "little pink panties with a pubic wig hanging out." Within six months, they were living together and she was sitting for him. But Feinstein also continued to pursue her own art over the years.

Feinstein's artistic style relies on plaster and carved wood and combines Rococo and Baroque flourishes with fairy tale and Disneyesque themes. A typically whimsical Feinstein piece is "Wagenburg," a parade of brightly colored enamel-painted wooden horses with white pompadours. But her success has always been surrounded by controversy and whispers that she's piggybacking on her husband's reputation, criticism that Feinstein has chalked up to sexism. Her tendency to seek out the spotlight hasn't exactly helped her cause, like appearing in a Marc Jacobs ad campaign and Vogue wearing a glittery gown. [Image via Getty, with Marc Jacobs]