Unlike many of her peers where plastic surgery has caused difficult-to-fix damage, in the case of the godmother of Michael Jackson, the opposite is true. She has entrusted herself to skilled hands with the scalpel, in addition to maintaining the healthiest lifestyle possible.
Another surprising feature was her spectacular design crafted with feathers and crystals for which she needed the help of seven men to carry her very long 5.5-meter train embroidered with the names of her five children and eight grandchildren.
The pop diva remains in great shape. This past April, she performed in two concerts in New York where tickets sold out months in advance. The secret to continue giving her best for seven decades was revealed a couple of years ago. It consists of having a restful sleep, taking care of mental health, avoiding late nights, not attending parties, no alcohol or drugs in her environment, and almost the entire team goes to the gym to lead the healthiest life possible. "It's a healthy structure, an underlying routine," confessed Rhonda, one of the daughters who accompanies Diana on her tours.
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With over 100 million records sold and a fortune estimated by Celebrity Net Worth at $250 million, Diana Ross was raised with ideals, believing that everything was possible and that hard work was part of it. Before becoming a big star, she described herself as a "small and fragile girl with a vibrant, vital, curious, energetic, and immense enthusiasm for being alive."
On more than one occasion, the singing star has commented that "in school, I wanted to be a fashion designer and costume illustrator, and all that has come true. I wanted to create beauty in beautiful things and everything has been fulfilled."
Since her debut in 1959 at the age of 15, Diana has been stringing together continuous successes without failures and envy clouding her mission to reach the top. Alongside her neighbors Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson, and Betty McGlown, she formed the group The Primettes, but later changed to The Supremes after being signed by Motown. Undoubtedly, Diana owes that pillar of her success to her friend Smokey Robinson (85), who mediated with the record label that launched The Jackson Five and, consequently, Michael Jackson.
In 1970, Diana decided to fly solo with a self-titled album whose single was a gospel titled Reach Out and Touch, which reached the twentieth position on the Billboard Hot 100. With the second single, Ain't No Mountain High Enough, she was already internationally known as the song topped the pop charts.
In Motown, she fell in love with Berry Gordy, the Executive Director of the record label with whom she had her first daughter, Rhonda (54). But before the girl was born, the singer decided to marry the music executive Robert Ellis Silberstein, who raised the girl as his own. When Rhonda turned 13, her mother confessed to her who her biological father was who had been called Uncle BB until then. With Robert, she had two more daughters, Tracee Joy (52) and Chudney Lane (50).
After divorcing in 1977, she had a three-year relationship with Gene Simmons, bassist and singer of Kiss, and in 1985, she remarried Norwegian shipping magnate Arne Næss, with whom she had two sons, Ross Arne (38) and Eva Olav (37). With this last marriage, Diana also became the stepmother of the three children her husband had from a previous relationship. They divorced in 2000. Four years later, Arne died in an accident while climbing a mountain in South Africa.