Born Heather Sweet in Michigan in 1972, Dita Von Teese was a classically trained teenage ballet dancer before she started working in her late teenage years as a fetish model and a dancer in a Los Angeles strip club, where she developed her distinctive old-school Hollywood glamour burlesque style. Her elaborate shows have incorporated giant Martini and champagne glasses, lipstick-shaped bucking broncos, and performing wearing nothing but $5 million (£3.7 million) worth of diamonds. She was married to the goth rocker Marilyn Manson between 2005 and 2007, and currently lives in LA with her partner, designer Adam Rajcevich.

Best childhood memory?

Having grown up in Michigan , I have vivid memories of the four seasons: the snow in the wintertime and ice-skating down my sidewalk; the a

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