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Jessie James

“I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I don’t care about the money, I just want to be wonderful. I’m not rebellious, I just dont like doing what I’m told. I clean house in my underwear. I could possibly fit in your pocket. I may be 5ft nothin, but don’t under estimate what I can do. I’ll NEVER quit to become somebodys old lady. I am a military brat, and LOVE our troops.” With her debut single “Wanted” approaching Top 20 on the Pop Song chart, Jessie James takes another giant step into the spotlight this week as ...

Heidi Montag

Love her or hate her, Heidi Montag is a tabloid staple... 2004 - After graduating high school, Colorado-native Heidi Montag heads to California to crack the books at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. At a freshman orientation, she meets Lauren Conrad, star of MTV’s hit reality show, Laguna Beach. "Everyone in the room was kind of gothy, and we were the two blond girls in the room scared out of our minds," Montag recalls to the New York Times in 2006. "I ran up to her and said, 'Will you please talk to me.'" Soon after, the new ...

Ke$ha

If there’s one thing Ke$ha knows how to do, it’s tell stories. Here’s a pretty good one: Two years ago, the aspiring pop singer and songwriter decided she wanted Prince to produce her first album. So, she found out his address and drove to his Beverly Hills home, where she paid the gardener five dollars to let her squeeze herself under his front gate. Then she hiked up the driveway (which was lined in purple velvet), let herself in through an unlocked side door, and rode the mirrored elevator up to the third floor where the Purple One himself was ...

Kim Kardashian

Keeping up with the Kardashians... 1980 - Defense attorney Robert Kardashian and wife, Kris Houghton, welcome their second child, Kimberly Noel, to their posh L.A. lifestyle. The growing brood already includes one-year-old Kourtney and will add Khloe in 1984 and Robert Jr. in 1987. By pre-school, Kim is palling around with Paris Hilton, and by 1994, her father is in the media spotlight when he houses and later defends O.J. Simpson following the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.