"Always be a first-class self, not a second-rate other."
In 2018, Tita Vantis ended with these words on the last page of her semi-autobiographical book, Your Incomparable Beauty.
After that, the book was released worldwide. But after investigation, no one refutes her words, and everyone trusts her words.
But it has to be said that Tita is indeed trustworthy.
She is a world-class stripper, worth more than 200 million, a show, full of seats.
What is even more peculiar is that as long as she performs, no matter how charming and feminine she is, even if she is naked and photogenic, she will win the applause of the public.
Moreover, in these applause, there is little eroticism, only amazement.
People love her undressing, love her sexiness, and love her charm even more.
Jean-Paul Gautier said: "Tita is the perfect Parisian for me. ”
Sharon Stone said: "It is difficult to imagine how there can be such a pure and exquisite beauty in the world. ”
She is indeed beautiful, beautiful and crazy, beautiful enough to come to the world.
But such a beautiful person has never been pampered and proud, but has constantly improved her career and lived for "beauty" all her life.
Tita Vantis is a dreamer.
She was born in West Branch, a small town in Michigan, USA. But there is no fashion there, and there are no colorful, and cheerful and charming girls.
Fortunately, her family is still fashion-related.
Her father was a mechanic and her mother was a manicurist, which made Tita fantasize about beauty since childhood.
When she was a child, her mother would always dress up Tita, let her wear a puffy skirt and comb a beautiful whip.
And she herself will also dress up as a high-class celebrity, and whenever she goes out, she must wear a nylon hat and a pink and purple silk scarf, and then slowly go out.
That look, like Ingrid Bergman in the silent film era. Exquisite and elegant, both the obedience of a small woman and the femininity of a big woman.
This picture was engraved in Tita's mind for a long time.
This is also her initial understanding of "beauty".
Later, when she grew up, to the age of school, her mother suddenly said to her, giving her a name, Heather Renee Sweet.
But Tita didn't like the name, but because it was too small, she could only endure it in silence.
However, forced to become beautiful in a hurry, she quickly hid this dissatisfaction.
Then one day, Tita was watching TV at home, just in time for the Hollywood actresses, including Catherine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, and Heidi Lamar.
They wear elegant makeup and long slim skirts, which sway in the wind and reflect the sunset in the distance, which is beautiful and vast.
This scene moved Tita.' Years later, she told the media: "I would like to believe that all this is because I have been seduced by beauty." ”
It was also from this time that the fantasy of "beauty" took root deeply in Tita's heart, until it later grew into a towering tree.
This year, her mother just sent her to study ballet, and Tita didn't think much of it and gladly left.
She said to her companion, "You know what? Those movie stars will dance. ”
This also laid the foundation for the future direction of Tita's life.
However, I have to say that because of the power of idols, she did not miss class once when she danced, always arriving first and returning at the latest.
But such days only lasted until the age of 12.
At the age of 12, the family moved to a new address, went to California, and lived in a place called Orange County.
Unlike West Blanche, it is the richest county in the United States, with many celebrities and magnates.
Of course, fashion trends are also top notch.
When she arrived in the fashion capital, Tita naturally did not miss the opportunity, and the desire for "beauty" in her heart was completely stimulated at this moment.
It was also the year that she transitioned from a child to a teenage girl, and began to contact adult ornaments such as lipstick, hair dye, nail polish...
In the bustling and extravagant nights, with different streets, Tita has a lot of fun in the new town.
She learned from her mother and quietly bought a lipstick. Years later, Tita still remembers this "first", recalling that it was a "cherry in the snow", which the salesman said represented the color of a girl.
On that day, before she arrived home with lipstick, she hid in the toilet of the mall and secretly wiped it a few times.
Then, there was a lot of laughter.
But when her mother saw her doing so, she did not accuse or accuse her, but supported her.
She called Tita to her side, took out her work bag, painted a half-moon shape on her hand, and symbolically lit a beauty mole.
This action completely melted Tita.
She no longer hid it, and every time since then, as long as she wanted to dress herself, she boldly went to the mall to buy what she needed, never hiding from anyone.
Later, she saw that Taylor on TV had black hair, so she went to the drugstore, bought a large bag of hair loss agent, and dyed her entire hair blue-black.
I also homeopathic cat eye makeup and eyeliner.
By the way, titta can now draw an eyeliner with one hand, straight and precise, that's when she learned.
She once said, "I've used more pencils, and foundations, than any movie star in a month." ”
Perhaps it is this dedication that has supported Tita all the way to the present.
However, if you want to be beautiful, it is not enough to have an exterior, you also need to combine the inside and the outside.
She seemed to be aware of this too.
Starting with learning makeup, Tita did one more thing, insisting on ballet.
At the age of 13, she was already a soloist at the local ballet performing arts company.
But Tita never felt enough.
She wants beauty, and she wants to snoop on more and more different kinds of beauty.
So in the next few years, Tita went to a high-end underwear store as a salesman, quietly feeling the most straightforward needs of women.
It was also at this time that she suddenly understood one thing: a woman's figure was as important as her face.
Since then, in order to create a perfect body shape, Tita has been wearing a body shaping vest every day since the age of 17, and the waist circumference is strictly controlled to 16 inches.
She never took it off again.
According to her own account, she has worn it for 20 years, and even if she sleeps, she has never changed it.
Later, she also gave up snacking and didn't eat any junk food.
"If I put my hand on the 10th potato chip and I immediately take a picture of myself wearing only thongs, the appeal of the potato chips is immediately reduced by more than half," Tita said. ”
She did that until she went to college.
But even after leaving Orange County, Tita's exploration of beauty has not diminished in the slightest.
To learn more about the beauty of women, Tita University chose a major in historical costume design, telling her mother: "My ambition is to become a costume film designer. ”
It was also this decision that opened up another fantasy for her – becoming a mannequin.
So Tita adjusted her direction and began to try her hand at mannequin work.
In order to be a competent model, she appeared on camera in a corset like a Victorian woman.
Once in an interview, she said: "Lingerie is the second layer of skin that is most intimate and most able to express herself. ”
So in those years, she took a lot of photos about underwear.
Some loom.
Some want to refuse to return the favor.
Others, wanton and bold, wander in the dew and the untouched.
She accentuated the underwear.
These underwear also shaped her.
Complement each other and forge the art of beauty.
During that time, Tita thinned her waist to 42cm.
Later, she also made her underwear into a personal brand, named Von Follies, and personally walked the catwalk for it.
Afterwards, Tita exhorts the woman: "A creature full of fatal temptations, who knows exactly where her charm lies, and she knows that everything must look effortless, as you were born."
Sexy lingerie is one of them, so you have to wear it every day and enjoy it. When you wear the right underwear for you, you will naturally find a sexy feeling. ”
In order to better disseminate it, Tita also created her own personal website and put all her own photos on it for everyone to enjoy.
The site now houses more than 10,000 photos of her, and it is popular at home and abroad.
It is worth mentioning that Tita's first husband, Marilyn Manson, connected to her through this site and fell in love with her.
However, these are all things that happened later.
Because she is obsessed with it and willing to work hard, Tita's fame in the fashion industry is getting bigger and bigger.
However, it has also aroused the question of the opposition.
There are traditional stylists and fashion media, after seeing a series of photos of Tita, they have accused her of not understanding art and not being different.
Tita was suddenly passive.
She didn't know what she was going to do, whether to continue to hold on to herself or to transform herself back into the traditional female form.
She thought about it for the next few years.
But in the end, it can't withstand the short and long stream, and it can't fight the so-called mainstream culture.
She eventually compromised.
Also conceded defeat.
Since being criticized, Tita has removed her heavy makeup, wiped off her lipstick, removed her thick eyelashes and large curls, and returned to her "normal" appearance amid controversy and insults.
But such days lasted only a few days, and she could not hold on.
Not long after, Tita shouted to the media: "Give me lipstick, give me foundation, give me false eyelashes and big curls!" ”
Later, she recalled this period of struggle, but also a sad face: "On the road to growth, I was once very shy, but I realized that if you want to live to the fullest, you must live your own way. ”
"I also realized that one can either cater to the aesthetics of others or achieve personal excellence."
She chose the latter.
After seeing this, Tita completely changed, as if she had found faith, and became hot again.
The following year, she did two things that were enough to change her life.
It also silenced those who opposed it.
First, she changed her name and changed Heather to Tita.
Allegedly, it was because she liked Tita Paulo and wanted to use it as a strength to become someone like Tita Paulo.
Second, she changed her hairstyle.
Before the age of 20, Tita replaced her blond hair with dark black curly hair, just like Hepburn and Taylor.
Later, in order to maintain this black hair, she spent several hours a day to take care of it, and then meticulously combed it.
These actions, like a graduation ceremony, show her saying goodbye to the past.
It also protects her vision of the future.
A few years later, Tita seemed to have found the right direction, becoming a stripper.
But her stripping, unlike the tertiary film, is not only off, but high-grade and artistic.
In 1993, Tita officially began her "undressing" career.
She tried her first attempt at striptease at a public party.
On that day, Tita wore a feather coat, blending retro culture and modern trends in the performance, and she was like a feather elf on the stage, shining under the wrapping of the costume and crystal.
Don't laugh, like a demon.
Shallow laughter, a hundred flowers blooming.
Isabelle Allende once said of her performance: "Pornography uses the whole chicken, while eroticism uses only one feather." ”
She used this feather to stir the hearts of countless viewers.
This "funny show", Tita became famous.
She became the sexiest woman in The United States, with countless fans.
Men loved her body, women loved her body, and it is said that among Tita's fans, women dominated the position, at one point reaching 80%.
She was furious and obsessed.
But Tita wasn't satisfied with the immediate success.
For the next 3 years, she continued to study this performance, striving to achieve the ultimate.
At this time, the young efforts were all used, ballet gave her a sense of dance, costume design made her particularly sensitive to clothes, after which Tita performed, and added these to the stage, making the performance very dramatic.
Instead of completing a show, she performs a life.
In 1996, Swarovski put on a show, and Tita, as a cast member, starred again.
On that day, she was even more stunning than when she performed the feather fan dance, wearing a crystal dress, wearing red-soled dancing shoes, painted with big red lips, which looked like a midnight rose up close and a blue demon in the distance.
The lights flickered on and off, the stage was red, and she was in this dream, singing and dancing softly, and giving birth to lotuses step by step.
As soon as the dance was made, the audience erupted into applause.
Then, Tita took off her dress, walked into the crystal cup, and kicked and punched happily.
The light suddenly turned from light to dark, and time stood still at this moment.
She was not as beautiful as an ordinary dust woman.
The so-called special thing in the world, that is, this form.
These 2 performances push Tita to the top of the world.
She became the most expensive stripper in the world.
Needless to say, it has also become a dream of men.
Once, she was invited to walk the red carpet, and as she walked, her umbrella suddenly fell.
This action immediately attracted the attention of the whole audience, and everyone present looked at her.
But Titayi was not hurried, just looked at his umbrella.
At this moment, two men suddenly rushed out from in front of her, scrambling to bend forward, trying to pick up the fallen umbrella.
One of them was a little quicker, picking up the umbrella first, and Tita smiled in return.
However, the man who failed to pick up the umbrella had a sad face and seemed to be unwilling, and then left in embarrassment.
She's just that popular.
After this, Prince Harry celebrated his 24th birthday, and the British royal family tried to invite Tita to the prince's birthday party, but Tita refused, saying: "I just did striptease." ”
Her modesty is her pride.
Later, when she was on a tour of Europe, french President Sarkozy and his wife contacted her and said, "We would love to see your performance, but we really can't go because of our identity." ”
As for the follow-up, it is not known.
But what is certain is that Tita's beauty is recognized by everyone.
The rejection and blows of the early years disappeared at this moment.
With her hard work, she has won the respect of everyone.
In the years that followed, Tita said more than once: "I am a stripper, I like these four words, that is part of what made me, I never regretted it, and I never denied everything I went through." ”
There was no worry, no resistance, and after that, she became obsessed with her career.
Concentrate on striptease performances.
In the years since, Tita has starred in many big shows.
Each is the pinnacle of perfection and is beautiful.
Such as The Opium Den show.
She wore the flag of a Qing Dynasty woman, reclining in the curtains, unrestrained and cold, beautiful as a dream.
Another example is the Le Bain Noir runway.
Tita transformed into a black elf, dressed in a dark beaded embroidered dress, and stepped on crystal shoes, recreating the excitement of the "Champagne Show" of that year.
She smokes and looks flattering, cold and charming.
Frequent glances, should be disgusted and happy.
Take off or not take off, it is a beautiful picture.
In addition to these, there is the Powder Puff Pinup Show.
Here you will see that she has changed her previous coldness and become a pink girl, like a princess who has strayed into a fairy tale world, whether standing or jumping, it is a dream.
I know that someone has commented on her performance: she seems to be only looking at you, making your heart flutter; she seems to have no one to watch, making you crazy.
But Tita said: "Beauty is the art I pursue, my nourishment, my savior, and the purpose of my life." ”
Beautiful enough and disciplined enough, she soon met someone she appreciated— Marilyn Manson.
Manson's career is somewhat similar to Thatta's, both in the service of beauty and because of beauty.
Known as one of the world's top musicians, he is the lead singer of an American metal rock band, obsessed and debauched.
As mentioned above, when Tita first became famous, he followed Tita through the website, which gave rise to a good feeling.
Later, at a dance, the two met, and Manson took the initiative to invite Tita to star in his own MV.
Favored by men, or quite prestigious men, how could she refuse?
Tita didn't think much of it and agreed.
A story unfolds slowly from this.
It didn't take long for them to establish a relationship.
After that, he got married quickly.
Image source: Qili Women's Network
But the collision of art and art did not burst out of the spark of detachment, but created more indifference and hostility.
Tita revealed that after the marriage, Manson changed, he did not go home, did not see anyone all day, and the two never communicated.
This made Tita feel haggard.
After surviving for a year, she voluntarily filed a divorce application with the court. But the funny thing is that Manson only learned from the media a year later that he was divorced.
Later, Tita responded: "Because I couldn't find his contact information. ”
It's also a pity.
However, the failure of the marriage did not make Tita grief-stricken.
She covered her tears with foundation, replaced her sadness with lipstick, and returned to the workplace with a proud life.
This freedom also attracted better people soon after.
Not long after the divorce, Tita met Luis.
He was 12 years younger than Tita, the son of the designer Jean Charles de Castelbaillac and a nobleman. Allegedly, there is also the title of Earl.
Today, Tita is immersed in love, living freely and freely.
A reporter once asked about her past, and she said:
"You have to be decent at all times, no matter how deeply you are hurt, I have been hurt hard, but I have not forgotten to maintain dignity and decency.
Because only then will you not continue to dwell on it, like driving to his house, spying on his social media account, these crazy things, when you fall from the glue to the freezing point, you will definitely want to find some crazy things to do.
But remember, calm, calm, converge. ”
It was something that emotion had taught her.
It is also the pursuit of art that shapes her character.
I remember that on the last page of "Your Unparalleled Beauty", there was also a sentence written: "My personal philosophy of beauty is to always believe that good things will happen." ”
Hey, that's Tita!
Author: Chi Jinwen