Amanda Righetti was born in southern Utah, and she’s the youngest of eight children. But the answer to the question pretty much everyone who’s ever lived in Utah is asked is “no.”
“The town we lived in was predominantly Mormon, but, no, we’re not,” she said with a laugh.
She grew up in a “very ‘Brady Bunch’ family” with seven older half-brothers and half-sisters.
Righetti was born in St. George and moved to Nevada — just outside Mesquite — when she was a toddler. Then, when she was 9, the family moved to Henderson, Nev.
So … she’s a Utah native, but Nevada was home until she moved to Los Angeles when she was still a teenager and landed a role on the Fox series “The O.