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"Rapper, actress and new talk show host Queen Latifah, 43, shares 25 things you don&amp;apos;t know about her with Us Weekly. The Queen Latifah Show premieres Sept. 16.\r\n1. My favorite city is New York.\r\n2. My first apartment was in the Bronx. Yeah! Yeah!\r\n3. As a kid, I wanted to be a marine biologist&amp;#x2026;and a truck driver.\r\n4. In high school, it was hard to ditch because my mom taught there. But I managed to find a way!\r\n5. At 17, I became friends with MC Lyte. It was like befriending my favorite superhero.\r\n\r\n6. I have three butterfly tattoos.\r\n7. I nicknamed the set of my new talk show &amp;quot;Big Sexy.&amp;quot;\r\n8. The acting bug bit me when I performed in Godspell in the ninth grade.\r\n9. I cook a mean spaghetti!\r\n10. I own the 1962 Chevy Impala from my movie Set It Off.\r\n11. I have a French Jet Ski license.\r\n12. I love sci-fi books and movies.\r\n\r\n13. I once managed the careers of Outcast, LL Cool J, and Naughty By Nature.\r\n14. I signed my first recording contract at age 17.\r\n15. The first thing I bought after signing was a gold tooth - which I then lost within one week.\r\n16. I buy more interior design magazine than any other kind.\r\n17. I have five motorcycles and two Vespas.\r\n18. The fastest I&amp;apos;ve ever gone on a motorcycle is 155 miles per hour.\r\n19. Roulette is my choice game at a casino.\r\n\r\n20. My favorite gospel group is Clark Sisters.\r\n21. I met my manager, Shakim, in 10th-grade geometry.\r\n22. I can eat eggs anytime.\r\n23. I always travel with my Bible.\r\n24. I play drums, but I&amp;apos;m no drummer.\r\n25. The first album I ever bought was Prince&amp;apos;s Purple Rain. It came with a poster that I hung on my bedroom wall and would occasionally kiss!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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