Biography
With her unmistakable look and outrageous style, Blac Chyna seemed destined for the spotlight. Born Angela Renée White in 1988, Chyna began leveraging her beauty into a profitable venture during her teens when she took a job as a server at Hooters restaurant, famous for its scantily clad waitstaff. By 18, she took her provocative performance skills to the next level, becoming an exotic dancer under the name Cream. She later settled on Blac Chyna, and moved up to a job dancing at Miami's elite King of Diamonds club, a lavish establishment frequented exclusively by the wealthy clientele, where Chyna's highest-grossing night earned her $15,000 in tips. Between her ostentatious wigs and undeniable charisma, she soon became a celebrity in her own right, going so far as to be mentioned in the rapper Drake's song "Miss Me" in 2010. That same year, Chyna was tapped to appear as Nicki Minaj's body double in the video for "Monster," and began embarking on a career as an in-demand glamour model and "video vixen," appearing in the video for her sometime-fiancé Tyga's "Rack City" in 2011, and on the covers of Black Men's magazine, Urban Ink Magazine, and Smooth Girl Magazine in 2012. Chyna would use this newfound fame to launch a career as an entrepreneur, graduating from JLS Professional Make Up Artist School in 2013 and subsequently launching the online boutique 88ifin and the adhesive eyelash line LASH by Blac Chyna, as well as opening the Los Angeles beauty bar The Lashed Bar the following year. By 2016, Chyna's personal life became entwined in her business ventures as well, as her relationship with Robert Kardashian made her an even more visible personality in the media. The two began starring on their own reality series, "Rob & Chyna" (E!, 2016-), in September of that same year, shortly before the birth of their daughter, Dream Renée Kardashian.
