Internationally known fetish supermodel Dita Von Teese was born Heather Renee Sweet on September 28, 1972, in Rochester, Michigan. The popular dancer and pin-up model trained to be a ballerina, but when she was fifteen she worked as a salesgirl in a lingerie store. When she was nineteen she began her career in a local strip club. Dita later became a fetish model, and finally a burlesque star, and was featured in Playboy Magazine seventeen times. She is known for her "girl in the glass" performance, where she baths in a champagne filled crystal-clear glass bathtub, and also for starring the fetish videos "Naked and Helpless," "Bound in Stockings" and in "Tickle Party: Volume 2." Her most famous role was as Mrs. Marilyn Manson, where she starred from March 2004 to December 2006. Prior to their break-up, they lived in Laurel Canyon with their four Devon Rex cats and two dachshunds dogs.
