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==Personal life== Shriver was born in [[Baltimore, Maryland]], to Sam and Margot Shriver. She first started playing tennis at the age of three. She graduated from [[McDonogh School]] in Owings Mills, Maryland. She is a minority owner of the [[Baltimore Orioles]] and is active in various charitable organizations. Her first husband, Joe Shapiro, a former [[Walt Disney Company|Disney]] lawyer, died of [[non-Hodgkin's lymphoma]] in 1999. In 2002, Shriver married actor [[George Lazenby]]. She gave birth to their first child, George Samuel Lazenby, on July 12, 2004, and to twins Kaitlin Elizabeth "Kate" Lazenby and Samuel Robert "Sam" Lazenby on October 1, 2005. The family lived in Brentwood, California. In August 2008, Shriver filed for divorce from Lazenby after six years of marriage.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/sports/tennis/news/story?id=3524564|title=Shriver files for divorce from ex-James Bond actor|date=August 8, 2008|website=ESPN.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/2623651/George-Lazenby-speaks-of-Pam-Shriver-divorce-pain.html|title=George Lazenby speaks of Pam Shriver divorce pain|date=August 26, 2008|website=The Telegraph}}</ref> Their divorce was finalized in May 2011.<ref>{{cite web|last=Finn|first=Natalie|title=Which James Bond Just Got His License to Divorce?|url=https://www.eonline.com/news/242172/which_james_bond_just_got_his_license|date=16 May 2011|access-date=9 September 2021|website=E! Online}}</ref> Shriver has two sisters—Marion, who died from cancer in 1997, and Eleanor who lives in Maryland. She is a fourth cousin of [[Maria Shriver]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/bal-te.sp.fourth04jul04,0,7994284.story |title='Yankee Doodle' 3 Marylanders' birthday tune |first1=Candus |last1=Thomson |date=July 4, 2009 |publisher=baltimoresun.com |access-date=May 17, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090707095716/http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/bal-te.sp.fourth04jul04,0,7994284.story |archive-date=July 7, 2009 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> the former First Lady of California and niece of President [[John F. Kennedy]]. Shriver is an ambassador for Up2Us Sports, a national non-profit organization dedicated to supporting underserved youth by providing them with coaches trained in positive youth development.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://southerncaliforniatennis.org/tennis-news/pam-shriver-joins-up2us-sports-as-ambassador/|title=Pam Shriver Joins Up2Us Sports As Ambassador|work=Southern California Tennis News |date=October 24, 2015 |access-date=April 14, 2017}}{{dead link|date=April 2024}}</ref> In 2021, Shriver became a supporter of the new Women's Sports Policy Working Group<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://womenssportspolicy.org/about-us/#supporters|title=About Us |website=Women's Sports Policy Working Group |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240404234451/https://womenssportspolicy.org/about-us/#supporters |archive-date= Apr 4, 2024 }}</ref> formed in response to President [[Joe Biden]]'s executive order that mandates blanket inclusion for all transgender female athletes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2021/02/01/group-protect-womens-sports-accommodate-transgender-athletes/4345854001/|title = Sports leaders seek to protect women's sports while accommodating transgender girls and women|website = [[USA Today]] |date=Feb 1, 2021 |first1= Christine |last1=Brennan |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230523235943/https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2021/02/01/group-protect-womens-sports-accommodate-transgender-athletes/4345854001/ |archive-date= May 23, 2023 }}</ref>
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