Jennifer Munson is a fictional character on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns.

[1] The character was the daughter of late police chief, Hal Munson, and fashion designer, Barbara Ryan.

With Mike as her inspiration, she decided to start her own design company called "Street Jeans".

After the party, thinking that she and Mike were breaking up, Jen got drunk and slept with Craig Montgomery.

Jennifer first met significantly older man, Dusty when she first came back to Oakdale from Europe.

But Jennifer, knowing the type of father that Craig was, didn't want him in her baby's life.

Jennifer married her boyfriend at the time (Mike Kasnoff) and decided to raise the baby as his.

He helped her through the pain of losing her child, her drug addiction and believed in her when she insisted that her son was still alive.

When Dusty discovered Meg's part in the deception, he left her and immediately went back to Jennifer.

Jennifer gave birth to a son prematurely and at the same time as Gwen Norbeck.

Craig, along with his wife Rosanna Cabot, made plans to adopt Gwen's baby.

Craig was revealed to have caused the accident and was sent to jail, while Rosanna slipped into a coma.

She tried to tell her ex-husband, Paul Ryan, about the switch, able to only say the word "Wrong foot" before falling into the coma.

Dusty Donovan and Meg Snyder realized Jennifer's addiction and got her help.

Jennifer eventually fell in love with Dusty, and she told him that she believed her son was still alive.

On the day that Johnny was set to be released from the hospital, Jennifer fell ill herself and was diagnosed with viral pneumonia.

She was rushed back to the hospital, where it was discovered that the pneumonia had caused irreparable damage to Jennifer's heart.

On July 7, 2006, after an imaginary dance with Dusty and still in his arms, Jennifer dies of cardio myopathy brought on by the viral pneumonia.

Jennifer's biological parents have never married and she thus had numerous stepparents in her life though she was raised primarily by Barbara.

She was stillborn though her stem cells ultimately saved Johnny's life when he was diagnosed with cancer.

Dusty also adopted her son, John Dustin "Johnny" Donovan, before she died.

Jennifer died in Dusty's arms after he gave her an imaginary wedding dance in her deathbed.

The act left Jennifer guilt-ridden because Craig was the father of her first love, Bryant Montgomery, and also because she was seeing Mike Kasnoff at the time.

Tragically, Bryant was killed in a car accident when they were teenagers after he witnessed Jennifer having sex with his cousin, Billy Ross.

When she returned after a bad relationship with a man named Andres, Jennifer embarked on love affairs with Jordan Sinclair and Mike Kasnoff.