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"If you pay attention to any celebrity news these days, you're probably at least mildly familiar with\u00A0Blac Chyna's name, although you might not be exactly sure why. You probably know that she's the\u00A0former flame/baby mama\u00A0of Kylie Jenner's current boyfriend, Tyga, and she's currently\u00A0dating Kylie's older half-brother,\u00A0Rob Kardashian, but where did she come from?\u00A0Well, welcome to our explainer! We'll tell you everything you need to know about the stripper-turned-Kim-Kardashian-BFF-turned-beauty bar impresario.\u00A0\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\n1. Blac Chyna isn't her real name.\u00A0Her real name is\u00A0Angela Ren\u00E9e White\u00A0and she was\u00A0born May 11, 1988, in Washington, D.C. She grew up in the surrounding area and\u00A0went to Henry E. Lackey High School in Maryland.\n\n2. She's had other not-real names\u00A0too.\u00A0She began stripping at the age of 18 under the alias \"Dora Renee.\"\u00A0She attended Johnson and Wales University in Miami. While in school, she danced at Old Diamonds for a short while under the alias \"Cream.\"3. She's done a lot of modeling.\u00A0Chyna has appeared on the cover of\u00A0Dimepiece\u00A0magazine and posed in\u00A0Straight Stuntin'\u00A0Magazine, to name a few.\u00A04. She's tiny. She's only 5-foot-2!5. She looks a lot like Nicki Minaj.\u00A0She played\u00A0Nicki Minaj's stunt double in Kanye West's \"Monster\" video.\u00A0\u00A0She talks about the experience in the video below:6. Drake's a fan.\u00A0Drake mentions her in his song \"Miss Me.\" He raps, \"Call the King of Diamonds and tell Chyna it'd be worth the flight,\" which harkens back to her stripper days at King of Diamonds in Miami.\u00A07. Amber Rose is one of her besties. They're super supportive of each other and are seen together all the time.\u00A08. Amanda Bynes wanted\u00A0to look like her. When Amanda was going through her blonde-bangs-and-cheek-piercing phase, she\u00A0told\u00A0In Touch, \"I want to look like Blac Chyna.\"9.\u00A0She went to Kim and Kanye's wedding.\u00A0Blac Chyna and her ex\u00A0Tyga attended Kim and Kanye's wedding,\u00A0although they haven't been Instagrammed together since Tyga started dating Kim's younger half-sister Kylie Jenner.\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\n10. She's a beauty mogul. In 2013, she went to JLS Professional Make Up Artist school and now owns a beauty salon in Encino, California,\u00A0called \"Lashed Bar.\" It offers services such as a $20 fast facial, brow tinting, and every type of body wax. She also has her own brand of fake eyelashes called, \"Lashed.\"11. She and Tyga have a child together. Tyga and Chyna met in October\u00A02011 at the \"The\u00A0F.A.M.E\" tour after-party and their love bloomed while\u00A0shooting the music video for Tyga's single\u00A0\"Rack City.\" Almost a year later,\u00A0their son, King Cairo Stevenson was born and they moved into a mansion in Calabasas, California, aka Kardashian Command Central. The couple split in 2014 and (it's speculated)\u00A0Tyga began dating Kylie Jenner.\u00A012. She\u00A0dates\u00A0Rob Kardashian. In January of 2016, these two got together and it's\u00A0perfect.\n\n13. She's had a little trouble with the law. She was arrested on Friday, Jan. 29 and\u00A0escorted from an airplane at the Austin, Texas airport. She was booked on charges of both public intoxication and possessing \"1 gram or more but less than 4 grams\" of a controlled substance.\u00A0Follow Laura on\u00A0Twitter."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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