Guess what - Christina Milian is Cuban! Bet you didn't see that one coming. Thankfully her parents saw the benefits of potential stardom in a free market and gave birth to her in New Jersey on September 26th 1981, raising her in Waldorf, Maryland. She was born Christine Flores, but she soon changed her name upon finding fame because her old one was rubbish.

From a very early age Christina seemed determined to be a star of some sort, claiming that she used to "try to get into the television" when she was little. The logistics of this as a path to stardom proved sadly ineffectual however, and it wasn't until she was older that she landed a role in a musical theatre play and later became a junior journalist on the Disney Channel's "Movie Surfers".

Aged thirteen Christina moved with her mom to Los Angeles to pursue acting (hey my uncle lives in Orange County - maybe I should take a trip over someday eh) and, being inhumanly beautiful and perfect in every way, began landing guest spots on TV shows like Clueless, Charmed, Sister Sister and Get Real. She also gave voice to some animated character or other in A Bug's Life and since then has gone on to star in literally millons of movies, including "Man of the House" with Tommy Lee Jones and "Be Cool" alongside John Trovolta and all the rest of them there, to name just a few. Well, to name the ones I can remember anyway (she's been in loads of films I haven't even heard of to be honest, but I'm sure they're all great).

However, acting is not the only thing Christina pursued whilst in California. "It was there that I met Rodney Jerkins, who inspired me to get into recording music," she says, clearly making up that guy's name. In 2000 she lent her heavenly vocals to a hook on Ja Rule's number one hit "Between Me and You" and people the world over began to notice a rising talent so inspiring it managed to get a Ja Rule single to number one. "Ja Rule didn't even know who I was when I recorded the song. After I did it, he loved the result," Christina says with a strangely empty laugh.

Buoyed up by the success of her single "AM to PM" Christina went mad writing stuff, touring seventeen countries between 2001 and 2002, even co-writing Jennifer Lopez's hit "Play" while she was at it, and in no time she had a load more singles and a completed album out. Since then she has only gone from strength to strength, starring in loads more movies and coming out with another album which is really good and sounds so sexy it scares me.

Just face it - life without her is devoid of meaning.