Dita Von Teese Biography
Date of Birth
28 September 1972, Rochester, Michigan, USA
Birth Name
Heather Renée Sweet
Height
5' 4" (1.63 m)
Spouse
Marilyn Manson (3 December 2005 - 29 December 2007) (divorced)
Trade Mark
Her "woman in a giant martini glass" routine
Raven coloured hair
Trivia
Is a popular dancer and pin-up model.
At her wedding with Marilyn Manson, she wore a royal purple silk taffeta Vivienne Westwood gown complete with train and petticoats worn over a Mr. Pearl couture corset. Her outfit was accessorized with a tri-corn hat by Stephen Jones and shoes by Christian Louboutin.
Her engagement ring from Marilyn Manson was a 7-carat, antique, European round-cut diamond.
Named herself Dita after Dita Parlo.
Often compared to Burlesque artist Gypsy Rose Lee, not only for their work in burlesque, but also for their shared love of haute couture fashions.
Thanked at the end of Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) because she helped train them for their dance routine.
Posed nude for the December 2002 issue of Playboy magazine. She was photographed by her then-future husband, Marilyn Manson.
Born at Crittenton Hospital in Rochester, Michigan.
Filed for divorce from Marilyn Manson, citing irreconcilable differences. [December 2006]
Ranked #82 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2007 list.
Ranked #87 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2008 list.
The family relocated from Michigan to Orange County, California when her father's job moved. She attended University High School in Irvine. In college, she studied historic costuming and aspired to work as a stylist for period films. She is a trained costume designer, often designing (and copyrighting) the photoshoots herself.
Was classically trained as a ballet dancer from an early age and danced solo at age thirteen for a local ballet company.
Middle of three daughters. Her mother was a manicurist and her father was a machinist at a company that made graphite.
Is of Armenian heritage through her grandmother.
Sherilyn Fenn's December 1990 Playboy pictorial was the original inspiration for dying her hair from blonde to black.
She collects classic cars and and drives a BMW Z4 and a 1965 Jaguar S-type. And she sold her 1939 Chrysler New Yorker with an autographed photo of herself for $23,403 on eBay in 2010.
Personal Quotes
I always get billed as 'Dita, internationally known fetish supermodel'.
I'm really a small town girl from Michigan who has a good laugh that being a fancy-pants stripper got me here!
Some people say what I do isn't very liberating. I say it's pretty liberating to get $20,000 for 10 minutes work.
Neither of us is ready. I don't feel that we need to have children to validate our marriage and I don't need children to claim I'm a fulfilled woman.
I advocate glamour. Every day. Every minute.
I've lost my luggage before and not had my makeup, and he's lost his luggage and not had his makeup - so it's great that we're always covered.
Date of Birth
28 September 1972, Rochester, Michigan, USA
Birth Name
Heather Renée Sweet
Height
5' 4" (1.63 m)
Spouse
Marilyn Manson (3 December 2005 - 29 December 2007) (divorced)
Trade Mark
Her "woman in a giant martini glass" routine
Raven coloured hair
Trivia
Is a popular dancer and pin-up model.
At her wedding with Marilyn Manson, she wore a royal purple silk taffeta Vivienne Westwood gown complete with train and petticoats worn over a Mr. Pearl couture corset. Her outfit was accessorized with a tri-corn hat by Stephen Jones and shoes by Christian Louboutin.
Her engagement ring from Marilyn Manson was a 7-carat, antique, European round-cut diamond.
Named herself Dita after Dita Parlo.
Often compared to Burlesque artist Gypsy Rose Lee, not only for their work in burlesque, but also for their shared love of haute couture fashions.
Thanked at the end of Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) because she helped train them for their dance routine.
Posed nude for the December 2002 issue of Playboy magazine. She was photographed by her then-future husband, Marilyn Manson.
Born at Crittenton Hospital in Rochester, Michigan.
Filed for divorce from Marilyn Manson, citing irreconcilable differences. [December 2006]
Ranked #82 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2007 list.
Ranked #87 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2008 list.
The family relocated from Michigan to Orange County, California when her father's job moved. She attended University High School in Irvine. In college, she studied historic costuming and aspired to work as a stylist for period films. She is a trained costume designer, often designing (and copyrighting) the photoshoots herself.
Was classically trained as a ballet dancer from an early age and danced solo at age thirteen for a local ballet company.
Middle of three daughters. Her mother was a manicurist and her father was a machinist at a company that made graphite.
Is of Armenian heritage through her grandmother.
Sherilyn Fenn's December 1990 Playboy pictorial was the original inspiration for dying her hair from blonde to black.
She collects classic cars and and drives a BMW Z4 and a 1965 Jaguar S-type. And she sold her 1939 Chrysler New Yorker with an autographed photo of herself for $23,403 on eBay in 2010.
Personal Quotes
I always get billed as 'Dita, internationally known fetish supermodel'.
I'm really a small town girl from Michigan who has a good laugh that being a fancy-pants stripper got me here!
Some people say what I do isn't very liberating. I say it's pretty liberating to get $20,000 for 10 minutes work.
Neither of us is ready. I don't feel that we need to have children to validate our marriage and I don't need children to claim I'm a fulfilled woman.
I advocate glamour. Every day. Every minute.
I've lost my luggage before and not had my makeup, and he's lost his luggage and not had his makeup - so it's great that we're always covered.
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Dita Von Teese Hologram At Christian Louboutin Launch
Dita Von Teese launches First Perfume
