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The Paula Abdul Nude
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Name: Paula Abdul |
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Welcome to The Paula Abdul Picture Sites! This site truly contains only high quality scans, so you can stop searching for Paula Abdul pictures from now on! For those new to the site, my philosophy on exactly what constitutes 'high quality' is found here. Be sure to check out all three picture galleries to your left.Abdul's Canadian-born Jewish mother, Lorraine Rykiss, is a former classical concert pianist. Her father, Harry Abdul, is an entrepreneur of Sephardic Jewish (most accounts say Syrian, but some claim Lebanese) birth who grew up in Ohio and was once a livestock trader in Brazil. When Abdul was 7, her parents divorced. She and her sister, Wendy, then lived with their mother. As a small child Abdul's interest in a career as a performer was inspired by Gene Kelly in the classic film Singin' in the Rain as well as such entertainers as Debbie Allen, Gregory Hines , Sammy Davis Jr, Fred Astaire and Bob Fosse. In an interview in the May 1990 Ebony magazine, she says, when asked about black influence, "Absolutely....As a young kid growing up, I admired the talent of so many [Black artists]. Black kids identified with me because we all danced together, and we shared that love for art. My favorite artists were Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, the O'Jays—that's what I grew up on. That was my consciousness." Abdul began dance lessons around the age of eight and showed a natural talent for it. She attended Van Nuys High School where she was on the cheerleading squad, played flute in the band, and was an honor student. At 15 she received a scholarship to a dance camp near Palm Springs, where she learned that her long-legged teachers stayed lithe by binging and purging their food, a practice that Abdul, who was extremely self-conscious about her weight, had been taught by her much taller fellow ballerinas, and which she herself began one night when she was 16 after eating out with her fellow cheerleaders. Abdul enrolled at California State University at Northridge to study broadcasting. In her freshman year, she tried out for the Los Angeles Lakers cheerleading team, and was selected from a pool of 700. Within three weeks she was made head choreographer. She quit school six months later. Click on a link on the left to go to each gallery.
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