Dita Von Teese

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Birth Name: Heather Renée Sweet

Age: 53, born 28 September 1972

Country of origin: United States

Height: 5' 3"

Relationship Status: In a relationship

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What Did They Look Like? (152 items)
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Published 17 years, 5 months ago

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Famous people + cats (186 items)
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Published 16 years, 6 months ago

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fairytale photoshoots (37 items)
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Published 17 years, 6 months ago

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Beauties and Goddesses (updated 26/01/2022) (2205 items)
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Published 10 years, 11 months ago

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I'm Loving That Face of Yours (54 items)
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Published 16 years ago

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Dita Von Teese Videos

Carrie-Ann - Dita Von Teese Tribute - The Martini Glass Show

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Dita von Teese Burlesque Tribute

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No Secrets ~ The Angels ... Dita Von Teese tribute.

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Description: Dita Von Teese [ Born: Heather Renée Sweet on September 28, 1972 in Rochester, Michigan] is a burlesque dancer, model, costume designer, entrepreneur and occasional actress. She is thought to have helped re-popularize burlesque performance and was once married to Marilyn Manson. Von Teese is the middle child of three daughters in a middle-class family. Her father was a machinist and her mother a manicurist. She is of English, Scottish, Armenian and German heritage. Von Teese later clarified that one of her grandmothers was half-Armenian and adopted into an Anglo-Saxon American family. Von Teese is known for her fascination w Dita Von Teese [ Born: Heather Renée Sweet on September 28, 1972 in Rochester, Michigan] is a burlesque dancer, model, costume designer, entrepreneur and occasional actress. She is thought to have helped re-popularize burlesque performance and was once married to Marilyn Manson.

Von Teese is the middle child of three daughters in a middle-class family. Her father was a machinist and her mother a manicurist. She is of English, Scottish, Armenian and German heritage. Von Teese later clarified that one of her grandmothers was half-Armenian and adopted into an Anglo-Saxon American family. Von Teese is known for her fascination with 1940s cinema and classic retro style. This began at a young age and was fostered by her mother, who would buy clothes for her daughter to dress up in. Her mother was a fan of old, Golden age-era Hollywood films, and it was from her that Von Teese developed a fascination with the actresses of that day, especially Betty Grable.

She was classically trained as a ballet dancer from an early age, and danced solo at age thirteen for a local ballet company. Though she originally wanted to be a ballerina, Von Teese states that "by 15, I was as good as I’d ever be." She was later to incorporate this element into her burlesque shows, where she frequently goes en pointe. The family relocated from Michigan to Orange County, California, when her father's job moved. Von Teese attended University High School in Irvine.

As a teenager, Von Teese's mother took her to buy her first bra, made from plain white cotton, and gave her a plastic egg containing a pair of wrinkly, flesh-colored tights. Von Teese says she was disappointed as she had been hoping to receive beautiful lacy garments and stockings, of the type she had glimpsed in her father's Playboy magazines. This fueled her passion for lingerie. She worked in a lingerie store as a salesgirl when she was fifteen, eventually as a buyer. Von Teese has been fond of wearing elaborate lingerie such as corsets and Basques with fully fashioned stockings ever since. In college, Von Teese studied historic costuming and aspired to work as a stylist for films. She is a trained costume designer, often designing (and copyrighting) her photo shoots herself. ... (more)