Jenna von Oÿ was a household name in the ‘90s thanks to Blossom and her voice work on Pepper Ann — but where is she now?
“I started acting at a really young age. I was 6 years old when I professionally started,” von Oÿ recalled during an October 2014 episode of OWN’s “Where Are They Now?” special. “My dad and mom had nothing to do with the industry.”
Von Oÿ grew up in Connecticut before relocating to Los Angeles to give acting a real shot, and just as she envisioned, she became a star.
“I begged my parents to let me start acting. As soon as I knew what acting was, it was my lot in life and I was sure of it,” she explained during the 2014 “Where Are They Now?” interview.
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Von Oÿ broke into acting in 1985 with an episode of Guiding Light. She had several guest-starring roles before landing the part of Kelly Callahan on Lenny in 1990. That same year, von Oÿ began playing Six LeMeure on Blossom, which put her on the map.
During the show’s five-season run, von Oÿ played Blossom Russo’s (Mayim Bialik) spunky best friend who wasn’t afraid to say what was on her mind.
“Six was [a] very outspoken, fast talking, gossiping girl who loved to talk about boys. Like, what was there not to love at 12 years old,” von Oÿ told Entertainment Weekly in October 2017 during a Blossom cast reunion. “It was me in a nutshell.”
Once Blossom ended in 1995, von Oÿ became immortalized as a Disney character, voicing Stacey in A Goofy Movie. Two years later, she made her way back to TV in a big way.
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Von Oÿ voiced Trinket St. Blaire on Pepper Ann from 1997 to 2000. During that time, she also began playing Stevie Van Lowe on The Parkers, which ran from 1999 to 2004. Von Oÿ went on to play Jen Larkin on What’s With Andy? from 2001 to 2007 before taking a brief break from the industry.
Von Oÿ then pivoted to music, releasing her first album, Breathing Room, in 2007. Her sophomore project, Coffee & Men: An EP for Childish Adults, was released two years later.
Outside of her career, von Oÿ began building a life with Brad Bratcher, whom she wed in October 2010. The couple welcomed their first daughter, Gray, in May 2012.
While von Oÿ had a few movie roles in 2011 and 2012, she stepped back from that world around the time she became a mother. The actress moved from Los Angeles to Nashville and welcomed her second daughter, Marlowe, in November 2014.
“My life in Nashville is really, very subtle,” von Oÿ revealed during her 2014 “Where Are They Now?” segment. “I wanted to get away from the L.A. bubble and sort of be away from the smog and the noise and get back to a sorta simpler way of life.”
In the decade since, von Oÿ has done just that. After moving to the South, she began working at StyleBlueprint Nashville as an associate editor and lead writer.
Von Oÿ has also written two books, 2015’s Situation Momedy: A First-Time Mom’s Guide to Laughing Your Way Through Pregnancy & Year Old and 2016’s Situation Momedy: A Very Special Episode in Toddlerdom.
She returned to acting in 2019 with a role in Cecil and in 2022, von Oÿ reunited with Bialik for a cameo on Call Me Kat.
In 2025, von Oÿ added podcast host to her resume launching “The Big F***ing Feelings” podcast with friend Ashley Robyn.
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In her personal life, von Oÿ has also had a few changes. She and husband Bratcher called it quits sometime before 2017. At that time, she debuted a relationship with a woman — but she didn’t publicly come out as gay until 2023.
“I think that having spent so many years living up to these expectations, not just that other people set for me but that I set for myself, I forgot to look through the lens of what makes me comfortable and uncomfortable,” von Oÿ told Bialik during a June 2023 appearance on the actor’s “Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown” podcast of her sexuality journey. “What I love and don’t love. What is authentic for me without that layer of people pleasing.”
She recalled, “I finally started to take charge of that when I got divorced. When I started to dig a little deeper and understand more about what that authenticity looks like for me.”
Von Oÿ noted that she didn’t see any of her past relationships with men as “being inauthentic in any way,” adding, “I don’t think that I was ignoring the fact that I was gay.”
Von Oÿ’s relationship with Kaleigh seemingly ended in 2023. She appeared to debut a new romance with a brunette woman in January 2024.
While von Oÿ has been quiet on the acting front since 2022, she revealed during the 2023 podcast that she is open to doing a Blossom reboot. “I’m interested wholeheartedly. The chemistry that our cast has. … It hasn’t gone anywhere,” she told Bialik at the time.
