Dita Von Teese

Dita Von Tesse was born September 28th, 1972 in Rochester, Michigan. Her birth name is Heather Renee Sweet; she named herself after Dita Parlo. Dita is popular for being a dancer and pin-up model, but she is also an actor and artist. She was trained as a dancer from an early age and danced solo at age thirteen for a local ballet company. She moved to California because of her father's job and attended school in Irvine college, where she studied historic costuming with the goal to work as a stylist for period films. Right now she is trained in costume designing and often puts herself in the photos. She helped train the dance routines for the ending of Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. Dita was married to the known Marilyn Manson but divorced for "irreconcilable differences." She also played in an episode of CSI but was asked to "take it down a notch" because of "offensive cleavage". Dita thought that was interesting considering how much blood and gore is on the series. I think Dita is gorgeous, intelligent, and a real inspiring individual. I can't believe she's turning forty and still performs as if she were twenty. She's herself and has a strong sense of her sexuality. It is said that her burlesque inspired style has revived the burlesque scene. "Some people say what I do isn't very liberating. I say it's pretty liberating to get $20,000 for 10 minutes work." -Dita Von Teese