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-- Name: Carmen Electra
-- Real Name: Tara Leigh Patrick
-- Birth Date: April 20, 1972
-- Birth Place: White Oak, Ohio
-- Carmen Electra had her first kiss when she was 7 at a roller-skating party in her basement while AC/DC's ''Back in Black'' played in the background.

-- Carmen Electra's favorite summer job was working in a magic show at a theme park in Ohio. "I was the girl they'd saw in half," she told PEOPLE.

-- Carmen Electra's first single, the Prince-produced "Go-Go Dancer," was originally promoted to 369 strip clubs in the U.S. Electra says the song was intended to inspire each club's "most popular and hardest-working dancer."

-- The soundtrack for the movie musical Grease was the first album Carmen Electra owned. "It inspired me to become an entertainer," she told Entertainment Weekly.

-- Carmen Electra has one problem with being a sex symbol: "I was watching an HBO special the other night on real-life maximum-security prison guys," Electra told PEOPLE. "I glanced up, and my poster was in quite a few cells. I was screaming, 'Oh, no!'"