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Love and fame have always been intertwined in Hollywood, but some people took their celebrity romances to a whole new level. From reality stars to models and musicians, these individuals launched their own successful careers after dating some of the biggest names in entertainment and sports. Join us as we explore how these famous couples sparked the rise of stars who shone beyond their relationships.
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00:00I had no identity. I really had no identity. I didn't even know who I was.
00:05Welcome to Ms. Mojo. And today, we're looking at one-time small-timers who claimed fame through a
00:11celebrity romance before making a name for themselves.
00:15Just kind of clicked.
00:16Well, not right away. I think we kind of evolved into something bigger.
00:22Coco Austin, iced tea.
00:24The already award-winning model and B-movie actress Coco Austin didn't enter the spotlight
00:30until 2001. She and rapper iced tea began casually dating after meeting through a mutual friend.
00:37A few months later, they were hitched in Vegas. And by the time they got a formal marriage license
00:42in 2006, they were one of hip-hop's hottest couples.
00:45We're proud of the fact that we like to be around each other.
00:48So proud for the fact that we only have one phone. He doesn't have a phone,
00:52and I don't have a phone. We share a phone.
00:54Austin went from the Playboy Mansion to modeling for the iconic magazine Centerfold.
00:59She also had three guest parts on her husband's show, Law & Order SVU.
01:04Look, if you're afraid of him and think he'll hurt you...
01:07Honey, didn't you just hear me? I'm a screamer. I got this boy wrapped around my finger.
01:15Finally, Ice Loves Coco made her a reality TV icon.
01:19Fans finally got an inside look at what's turned out to be an incredibly enduring love story.
01:24Of course, Austin's status has endured on her own star power.
01:28I've got the camera in her face at all times.
01:31Oh, really?
01:31Yes. She poses. She moves her eyes and looks at the camera.
01:36Oh, she's gonna be awesome in five years.
01:38David Otunga. Jennifer Hudson.
01:40He may not have ended up with Tiffany Pollard,
01:42but David Otunga was the real winner of VH1's I Love New York in 2007.
01:47It was through the show that the Harvard-educated lawyer met R&B diva Jennifer Hudson.
01:52Can I just ask you about it right now?
01:55Can I just...
01:56How would you handle this?
01:58Where did this come from?
01:59Can I just ask you, is there going to be a wedding soon?
02:03There is a wedding date.
02:04Though they never followed through on their marriage plans,
02:07the spotlight allowed Otunga to make an unexpected career change.
02:10His WWE run included winning the tag team championships twice
02:14before transitioning into commentary.
02:17Sadly, Otunga really turned heel after alleged hostilities
02:21led to his breakup with Hudson in 2017.
02:24David, a former WWE wrestler,
02:26strongly denies any allegations of harassment or abuse.
02:29In a statement to ET, his attorney alleges that Jennifer filed the, quote,
02:33meritless restraining order as a ploy to gain custody of David Jr.
02:37in the wake of their split.
02:38He's nonetheless maintained a steady acting career on his muscular media personality
02:42more than the relationship that started it.
02:45How much can you deadlift?
02:46A literal ton?
02:48Well, I just did 600.
02:51I'm not even a superhero.
02:53Hey, can somebody take our order?
02:55Georgina Rodriguez, Cristiano Ronaldo.
02:58In 2016, renowned footballer Cristiano Ronaldo
03:01walked into a Gucci shop in Madrid
03:03and was smitten with a sales assistant.
03:06It would be another nine years before he and Georgina Rodriguez got engaged.
03:11Announced the exciting news with an Instagram post Monday.
03:14The caption?
03:15Yes, I do.
03:16In this life and in all my lives.
03:19During that time, the latter rode overnight media attention
03:22as a social media influencer and mainstream model.
03:25You're answering very well.
03:26I just want people to get to know me a little better.
03:29Rodriguez has been on the cover of some of the biggest magazines in the world
03:32and walked the runway during Paris Fashion Week.
03:35Now she's selling Gucci as a brand partner.
03:38Of course, Rodriguez has her own fashion brand,
03:40among other lucrative enterprises.
03:43And with the Netflix reality show I Am Georgina,
03:46the future Mrs. Ronaldo makes it clear that she's a champion all on her own.
03:50Sometimes I need to be alone.
03:52And that's usually when the most amazing ideas come to mind.
03:56Scott Disick, Kourtney Kardashian
03:58Keeping up with the Kardashians, fans suddenly found themselves
04:01keeping up with Scott Disick in 2007.
04:04Things had gotten serious since the small-time entrepreneur
04:07met Kourtney Kardashian the previous year.
04:09It is tough being in a big family,
04:11especially being from, you know, a family where it's just me.
04:15And so, yeah, I take things pretty hard
04:16and I am sensitive where people would never imagine that I am.
04:19Then his brand got serious
04:21as the exposure of reality TV royalty opened up opportunities.
04:25Unfortunately, scandals and personal struggles
04:28eventually led to Disick and Kardashian calling it quits in 2015,
04:32with three children to maintain their high-profile bond.
04:35It's nice to be able to show the kids
04:37so many of their moments on the show
04:42that they don't know about because they were so young.
04:45Meanwhile, Disick has stood on his own
04:46as a media personality and celebrity businessman.
04:49He even showed up the haters
04:51by naming his highly successful clothing line, Talentless.
04:54There's no denying his true talent for reinvention,
04:57even without having to keep up with the Kardashians.
04:59How long you've been thinking about it, all that stuff.
05:02I always knew if I did something,
05:03I wanted to do something super authentic to me
05:07and actually have it to be my own brand.
05:10Karuchi Tran
05:11Chris Brown
05:12Aspiring Los Angeles model Karuchi Tran
05:15had just made it to stylist assistant
05:17when she met Chris Brown in 2010.
05:19And just like that,
05:21the R&B idol's new girlfriend was doing major photo shoots,
05:24hosting red carpet events,
05:26and starring on the award-winning web soap The Bay.
05:29You know, the reason why people tuned into this so much
05:32is because it's relatable.
05:34But just as this meteoric rise started to peak,
05:38Tran and Brown's relationship collapsed
05:40after he admitted to fathering a child with another woman.
05:43Tran later received a restraining order
05:45after revealing Brown's infamous pattern of abuse.
05:48I'm not that girl.
05:49I'm not like trying to call her, trying to cuss her out.
05:52My issue is with myself and with Chris.
05:55Not the baby, not the mother, not Rihanna, nobody.
05:58It's me and him.
05:59It was around this time
06:00when the acclaimed TNT crime drama clause
06:02cemented the actress's independent stardom.
06:05She's since further proven
06:07that she's been well on her way all along.
06:09Do you really ever think you'd go back to him?
06:17No.
06:18Kevin Federline, Britney Spears.
06:20Where did y'all meet?
06:22We met at Joseph's.
06:23It's a nightclub.
06:25Mm-hmm.
06:25On a Monday night.
06:27Uh-huh.
06:27A while back.
06:28Perhaps most celebrities by proxy
06:30have what it takes to be stars on their own.
06:32But the critics didn't feel that way
06:34when backup dancer Kevin Federline
06:36married pop queen Britney Spears
06:38three months after they met in 2004.
06:41Maybe because I hadn't had that in so long.
06:43It's something I kind of longed for.
06:45And, um, trying to shout out to the universe.
06:49Come to me in some weird way.
06:51K-Fed then became a media staple through reality TV,
06:55a stint with the WWE,
06:56and raising two children with Spears.
06:592006 saw him release the album Playing With Fire
07:02to historically bad reviews,
07:04though it cracked the Billboard 200
07:06and scored a Teen Choice Award.
07:08Things looked bleak for K-Fed's professional prospects
07:11following his and Spears' notoriously bitter divorce in 2007.
07:15Instead, he's remained in the public eye
07:17as a veteran personality,
07:19entertainer, and well-respected father.
07:21A very normal, middle-class home in Los Angeles.
07:25The dishes are being done,
07:27the dogs being fed,
07:29and the kids are playing outside.
07:32Priscilla Presley.
07:34Elvis Presley.
07:35Someone who just lost his mother, uh,
07:38a year before I met him.
07:40Very insecure on where he was, um,
07:43in his music career, in his movie career.
07:47The first star couple of rock and roll
07:49was also one of the genre's first romantic scandals.
07:52Elvis Presley was in his 20s
07:53when he brought teenager Priscilla Beaulieu
07:55from her father's U.S. Air Force stations
07:57into the limelight.
07:59And tell stories that I can really put myself into,
08:01you know,
08:03like Brando and James Dean.
08:06Well, I think you'd be great.
08:08She could handle it by the time they married,
08:10just before she turned 21
08:11and publicly mourned with grace
08:13following Elvis' shocking death
08:15four years after the divorce.
08:17Having proved her business skills
08:18with the boutique Biz and Beau,
08:20Priscilla eventually took over her ex-husband's estate.
08:23Getting ready to, you know,
08:25to write this and,
08:26and wanting it to be delicate
08:29and hoping that people will understand.
08:31She grew the King's brand
08:32beyond anyone's imagination
08:34while making her own name as an entrepreneur,
08:37philanthropist, writer, and actress.
08:39It looks like Queen Priscilla
08:40was never one to be underestimated.
08:42I just needed to go out and do things.
08:45I mean, he likes everybody to stay in the house.
08:46I wanted to go dance classes.
08:48Yeah.
08:48And I wanted to find out who I was.
08:51Amber Rose, Kanye West, and Wiz Khalifa.
08:54She makes beautiful babies.
08:57Very good.
08:58Kanye West, the man she makes the babies with.
09:01He makes really good music.
09:02One particular dancer in the 2008 video
09:05for Ludacris' What Them Girls Like
09:07stood out to Kanye West.
09:08The rapper soon became involved
09:10with Amber Rose Levinchuk,
09:12supporting her transition into modeling
09:14and entrepreneurship until their split in 2010.
09:17She rode the momentum into media appearances
09:19and a relationship with another hip-hop titan,
09:22Wiz Khalifa.
09:23Since you mentioned it,
09:24where are you going on vacation?
09:25I don't know.
09:26We try to keep it low-key
09:27so nobody can follow us.
09:28There's no denying that this contributed
09:30to raising the means and profile
09:32for Amber Rose's move into a music
09:34and acting career of her own.
09:35But even after she filed for divorce
09:37from Khalifa in 2014,
09:39she remains a notable and unpredictable force
09:42in multiple industries.
09:44Amber, I love her.
09:45She's a good friend,
09:47a great partner,
09:49a good,
09:49probably like the best ex ever,
09:52yo.
09:52Like,
09:52I wish everybody's ex was like mine.
10:07Going into the 2010s,
10:10exotic dancer Angela Renee White
10:12was already well-known by a different name
10:14in the hip-hop industry.
10:16Then the world got to know Blac Chyna
10:17after she met Tyga
10:19on the set of the music video for Rack City.
10:21The tabloid coverage came to a head in 2014
10:24when Tyga left her for Kylie Jenner
10:26while Chyna hooked up
10:27with Jenner's half-brother,
10:29Rob Kardashian.
10:30I'm just like,
10:31is this real?
10:32Like,
10:32what's going on?
10:32The couple's courtship
10:33on keeping up with the Kardashians
10:35was so high-profile
10:36that it spawned a spinoff
10:38about their merit.
10:39I'm more than willing to try it out
10:41and to do that
10:42if it's gonna benefit you and I,
10:44you know,
10:45so.
10:45Unfortunately,
10:46Rob and Chyna was canceled
10:48as the central couple divorced in 2017.
10:51Of course,
10:52it's the media career
10:53and entrepreneurship
10:54that have truly guaranteed
10:55Chyna's star power.
10:57Where to next,
10:58Blac Chyna?
10:59Where we going next?
11:00Are you single?
11:01Blac Chyna!
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11:18Sharon Osbourne
11:19Ozzy Osbourne
11:21The daughter of Black Sabbath manager
11:23Don Arden
11:24ironically became
11:25Ozzy Osbourne's biggest advocate
11:27after her father fired him.
11:29Sharon Arden was invaluable
11:30to the heavy metal singer's sobriety
11:32and successful solo career
11:34by the time they got married in 1982.
11:36It was 80 in 1980
11:39that we started.
11:41It was,
11:42we were working together
11:43and it just
11:45became something else.
11:47Thus,
11:48Sharon Osbourne management
11:49became a credible enough name
11:50in the industry
11:51for the sole employee
11:53to promote rising acts
11:54like Motorhead
11:55and The Smashing Pumpkins.
11:57Fans finally put a face
11:58to the name
11:58when MTV's The Osbournes
12:00practically defined
12:02modern reality TV
12:03about famous families.
12:04I see the next time
12:06you'll come back
12:06and talk
12:07you'll be a talking guest
12:08instead of a singing guest.
12:10Oh.
12:11Right?
12:12When's that next week?
12:15No,
12:15a little later.
12:16Sharon in particular
12:18was so charismatic
12:19that she cultivated
12:20a major media personality.
12:22In the end,
12:23Sharon Osbourne's husband
12:24had little to do
12:25with her becoming
12:26a megastar
12:27in her own right.
12:28I feel at home.
12:29Yeah.
12:30I feel it's where I belong.
12:32Which star
12:32is your favorite
12:33romance to riches story?
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