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For more than a decade, Ricki Lake was one of the most recognisable faces on daytime television.
The former Hairspray actress hosted her namesake talk show from 1993 to 2004, and a reincarnated version called The Ricki Lake Show aired for a single season in 2013.
Watch: Ricki Lake talks hair loss and her relationship on the Drew Barrymore Show. Post continues below.
In the years since, she has worked on a 2014 documentary about breast milk as well as 2015 documentary Sweetening the Pill about the contraceptive pill and made a cameo in the 2016 television musical Hairspray Live!
There were a few reality TV cameos in 2018 and 2019; she was revealed to be The Raven in the US' version of The Masked Singer and also competed on The X Factor: Celebrity.
But Lake, 52, has recently had a comparatively lower profile.
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Ricki Lake also made and featured in a fantastic documentary called 'The Business of Being Born' which discussed the truly, truly fucked up American system of childbirth.
She had an awful, though standard, first birth. She investigated the system through which women birth in America and found it greatly lacking. She ended up having her second baby at home with midwives, something that is shown in the documentary.