NAME: Christina Maria Aguilera

Nickname : Chrissy, X-Tina, Baby Jane, Candy

Height : 5' 1½" (1.56 m)

OCCUPATION: Film Actress, Television Actress, Singer, Philanthropist

BIRTH DATE: December 18, 1980 (Age: 30)

ZODIAC SIGN: Sagittarius

Born Christina Maria Aguilera on December 18, 1980, in Staten Island, New York, to parents Fausto Xavier Aguilera and his wife, Shelly Loraine Fidler. Her early home life was troubled. Christina's father, an Ecuadorian immigrant and sergeant in the U.S. Army, was an abusive husband. It wasn't until Aguilera was 6 that her mother managed to end the marriage and move her two daughters (Christina and her younger sister, Rachel) to a new life in Rochester, Pennsylvania.

From an early age Aguilera loved music, a gift she no doubt inherited from her musical mother, an experienced violin and piano player. By the time she was in elementary school, Aguilera's big voice had swept through a number of local talent shows, causing harsh envy from her schoolmates and even some parents. It became so bad that eventually Christina's mother made the decision to home-school her daughter.