Dita Von Teese

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... Read More

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. See Less