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Childhood secret

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Underwood reveals losing her premature baby twin sister, and struggling through childhood domestic violence.

A lot of people have domestic violence in their family, a lot of people witness things, so to get through that I started to engage my sister, my twin, as my guardian angel, as that was the only way I knew I could get through it. For years, in my family, my birth mother did not want me and my father to be close to each other so she would tell me that my father killed my sister. And that he propped a bottle up for her to take and she asasphyxiated… So for years, I loved my father but I did not get very close to him, until one day I saw my mother stab my father.

17 Sep, 2013

Plastic surgery backlash

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Chen responds to the negative backlash regarding her secret eye surgery. She is shocked that this is a race issue.

What was hurtful was that the hateful comments that I read where people were judging me were people within my own community. It was comments like, Way to give in to the Western standards of beauty! ‘You’re denying your heritage! ‘You’re trying to look less Asian.

9 Sep, 2014

Pregnant

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Gilbert and Perry are expecting their first child. Gilbert revealed her pregnancy during the TV show The Talk. She talks about her seemingly random fear of having a cinderblock broken over her stomach. She was supposed to overcome this fear as part of The Talk’s Face Your Fears premiere week.

I actually can’t do it, because…I’m pregnant!

Gilbert has two children from previous relationships.

Kicked out of high school

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Tyler reveals that she was kicked out of high school during her freshman year.

I really started to go into that world quite a bit and got caught up in alcohol and drugs when I was a freshman. It started to affect my school work. I stopped showing up on time. I would leave early to get high and I got thrown out of my high school.

Reveals polygamist grandfather

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Chen reveals that her grandfather was a polygamist and that his multiple marriages took a major toll on her mother and grandmother’s lives.

My grandfather was a polygamist, he had nine wives, six of who bore him children. He had 11 children that we know of, countless mistresses.

18 Sep, 2014

Queens of comedy secret

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Underwood reveals why she turned down The Queens of Comedy tour.

There’s a conference call…I dialed in…I hear Sommore, Adele Givens and Laura Hayes all talking about me…I hear discussions about my appearance, my ability…I was startled and hurt…I was bruised, but I wasn’t broken…