Born Barbara Jean Huffman, on August 23, 1934, in Tucson, Arizona. Eden was a cheerleader in high school and a pop singer as a teenager. She graduated in 1949 from Abraham Lincoln High School in San Francisco, California. Eden is most indelibly associated with her role as the genie in the bottle in I Dream of Jeannie.Eden had parts in a series of unremarkable films in the 1950s and 1960s. Her first film role was in Back from Eternity (1956). In 1957, she starred on TV in How to Marry a Millionaire (1957) and she starred in Harper Valley PTA (1981-82). She published her autobiography, Barbara Eden: My Story, in 1986.BJ married first husband Michael Ansara in 1958 and divorced him in 1972. The couple had a son, Matthew Michael Ansara, born August 29, 1965. She married Charles Donald Fegert in 1977, and divorced him in 1983. She married her current husband, Jon Eicholtz, in 1991.