Cavern of Shame: July 2012

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Kylie Jenner

Kylie Jenner is the youngest daughter of Kris and Olympic athlete Bruce Jenner. She has an older sister, Kendall Jenner. Through her mother, she has three older half-sisters: Kourtney Kardashian, Kim Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian Odom, and one older half-brother, Rob Kardashian. Through her father, she has three older half-brothers: Burt Jenner, Brandon Jenner, Brody Jenner and a half-sister, Casey Jenner. All together she has 4 half-brothers and 4 half-sisters.

She also has one niece and nephew, Mason Dash Disick and Penelope Scotland Disick, who are Kourtney Kardashian's children with boyfriend Scott Disick and two other nieces, Francesca and Isabella Marino, who are her sister Casey's daughters. She studies in Sierra Canyon School and currently is working as a model and was assigned as a brand ambassador for Seventeen Magazine in 2012 alongside her older sister, Kendall Jenner. She featured in magazines such as OK! Magazine, Teen Vogue, Seventeen Magazine,Girlfriend Magazine and others,Also with Kendall. Also Kylie is on the cheerleading team with her older sister Kendall.

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Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg was born Caryn Elaine Johnson in New York City and raised in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, the daughter of Emma (née Harris), a nurse and teacher, and Robert James Johnson, Jr., a clergyman. Goldberg has described her mother as a "stern, strong, and wise woman" who raised her as a single mother after Goldberg's father had left the family. Goldberg's recent ancestors migrated north from Faceville, Georgia, Palatka, Florida, and Virginia. Results of a DNA test, revealed in the 2006 PBS documentary African American Lives, traced part of her ancestry to the Papel and Bayote people of modern-day Guinea-Bissau. Her admixture test indicates that she is 92 percent of sub-Saharan African origin and 8 percent of European origin.

Her stage name, Whoopi, was taken from a whoopee cushion; she has stated that "If you get a little gassy, you've got to let it go. So people used to say to me, 'You're like a whoopee cushion.' And that's where the name came from." She adopted the traditionally German/Jewish surname Goldberg as a stage name because her mother felt the original surname of Johnson was not "Jewish enough" to make her a star. According to an anecdote told by Nichelle Nichols in the documentary film Trekkies, a young Goldberg was watching Star Trek, and upon seeing Nichols' character Uhura, exclaimed, "Momma! There's a black lady on TV and she ain't no maid!" This spawned lifelong fandom of Star Trek for Goldberg, who would eventually accept a recurring guest-starring role on Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Between the years of 1979 and 1981, she lived in Communist East Germany, working in a number of theater productions. During her travels, she would smuggle various items into the country for the artists she stayed with.

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