Christina Milian
I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.Collection: Life
Growing up, I had an internal struggle with my body because I was really chubby. My sisters were younger, and they were all skinny and all cute. As a teen, I definitely had, like, an extra 30 pounds of weight.Collection: Teen
If there's an inkling of abuse, I have to move on. Even jealousy - seems cute it first, but if they're getting in my head, it's not right for me. It's okay to be alone. It's okay to be single. The right thing will come along.Collection: Jealousy
I just got tired of waiting for things to happen through other people when so many other people are taking chances on following their dreams.Collection: Dreams
My biggest lesson I've learned about love is to keep on loving. Love is love; it's amazing. It's fine. It hurts. It's probably one of the best experiences in life.Collection: Amazing
Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected.Collection: Family
Violet speaks Spanish and understands it. She loves Cuban food! My mom is very good at teaching her about our culture, whether it be the food or Spanish or explaining to her that she's Cuban.Collection: Mom
When I think of the definition of cool and when I look at people, John Travolta is really the definition of cool because, not only is he great in all his movies, but, as a person, he's just really cool.Collection: Cool
My mom and I always had a great bond. It was always a natural friendship bond since early on. My mom was 18 when she had me.Collection: Friendship
My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.Collection: Patience
I'm a grown woman. The haters are definitely wrong if they think I care.
The will to never give up and to be fearless. That's what I have.
I enjoy my fun time and everything like that but I love what I do.
My 'Chili Palmer' was my mother. Her name is Carmen Milian, and she's my manager. Before getting into music, we actually educated ourselves, and I went to college for music as a business and learned the business side, and she read a lot of books.
Social media has allowed fans and celebrities to really engage and have an organic interaction with each other. Ever since I've had the opportunity to use social media, all the way back to the days of chat rooms, I found I was able to really understand what the fans wanted, communicate with them, and share my lifestyle.
I will always do music, and now - with where the world is going with social media and people dropping stuff for free and doing this and doing that - there's no excuse.
Love is what really fuels you, and that goes for relationships with a spouse or with family. Love is a beautiful thing.
I guess NBC must have noticed that one of my main staples is social media. So, when they approached me for 'The Voice,' I thought, 'Why not be the first one to do it?'
I feel like if you don't put too much expectations and too much high hopes into things, everything will fall into place.
For the longest, I was slightly naive when it came to the real world. There were a lot of fears I was afraid to conquer that were just holding me back from standing up for myself or taking chances.
You have to be a strong person to be in music, especially.
I would love to go to a restaurant on the beach. And that could be in Miami or that could be in Malibu or Bahamas, Mexico.
'We Are Pop Culture' is my clothing line for women that started with just T-shirts. The clothing line is urban street wear. It's for women that feel confident in their own skin and want to express themselves. The whole idea is to play with modern pop culture and previous pop culture using art and sayings.
I do love pears. All types of pears. Not too firm, not too soft; they have to be at the right time of their life.
My father's in the military, so we moved a lot. I was born in Jersey but grew up in Maryland until we moved to L.A. to pursue my acting career. Music came into it after that.
There hasn't been one highlight that stands out... but touring and performing has been great.
I signed to Def Jam and within two months, I heard that Ja Rule was looking for someone to do a song with.
But people who do not know me are surprised to see me as a real person I guess.
I am also a hard worker and people are sometimes surprised to see that as well.
I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense.
I did a theatrical musical, Annie Warbucks, when I was 11. We did a tour and we stopped by Los Angeles.
Living in Maryland, I saw that the opportunities were far greater in California than back home.
I felt like a dork growing up so this is shocking.
I also have two dogs, a Chihuahua and a Yorkshire terrier, so if they like him, that's a good sign.
I was living in Maryland and my first week was dreadful. My first week I actually got into a fight at school.
For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends.
I moved here to California when I was 13 to pursue my acting career.
It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.
I had actually been on tour in Japan and I had my own world tour that I was doing. I was used to doing a show for an hour, so I was always learning choreography.
When we were doing the cheerleading for this, I was excited about doing it because I always wanted to be a cheerleader. I always wanted to but I didn't get to because I was working.
I would love to do some kind of mystery movie, or an action flick, something with that combination.
I would just love to do something where I'd have to train and work really hard and do one of those types of action movies, which a lot of women are doing now.
I like doing arts and crafts, so I would probably go to one of those fun little ceramic places and go paint some plates and do something fun like that.
Even in relationships, I don't get my hopes up or anything, especially not right now because I know I'm young and I've got plenty of time later in the future.
When I meet somebody, I hang out with them, and it's all good, but I don't take it too seriously.
Being in the music business is a totally different industry right there.
Well, Tommy Lee Jones is a little bit more intimidating. He's definitely a cowboy. He's from Texas.
The actors I would like to work with are Julia Roberts, just because I've admired her work for a long time, well Brad Pitt. I think you know my reasons.
Even if I don't have the money to take vocal lessons, I'll practice in the house by myself singing out loud.
That's my fun time so, to me, doing my homework, studying on what I do, watching the movies, listening to music, all that inspires me so I focus a lot on that and practice.