Melanie Jayne Chisholm (born 12 January 1974), better known as Melanie C or Mel C, is an English singer, songwriter, actress and television personality. She is one of the five members of the Spice Girls, in which she was nicknamed Sporty Spice, and sold over 100 million records worldwide as a group.
Melanie Jayne Chisholm was born in Whiston, Merseyside and later moved to Widnes, Cheshire at a young age. She attended Fairfield High School. Following school, she studied for a diploma course in dance, singing, drama, and musical theatre at the Doreen Bird College of Performing Arts in Sidcup, Southeast London. During college, she replied to an advert in The Stage by Chris and Bob Herbert, who were looking to form a new girl group, later to become the Spice Girls. She left college just short of completing her three-year course and gained teaching qualifications in tap and modern theatre dance with the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing.
Chisholm is half-sister of racing driver Paul O'Neill. Since October of 2000, Chisholm has been open about her struggles with clinical depression, and an eating disorder, which she has experienced several times during her life. Years later, she said about her eating disorder to Contact Music: "I'd hammered the gym for three hours a day. It was a way of running away, not thinking. I felt like a robot. When the papers started calling me 'Sumo Spice', I was only a size 10. But I was so upset by all the criticism, it got worse and I went up to a size 14". In 2002 she began a relationship with property developer Thomas Starr, who helped her beat depression, but they never married. On 22 February 2009, Chisholm gave birth to her daughter Scarlet Chisholm Starr at the Portland Hospital in London.
In 2012, after 10 years, Chisholm and Starr ended their relationship. In 2013, she reportedly helped the singer Matt Cardle beat depression and he said that Chisholm saved his life. They had a relationship in 2014. Chisholm has a £1 million country home in Catbrook, Monmouthshire. She is a supporter of Liverpool FC. She is also an amateur triathlete, finishing the London Triathlon twice.
No comments:
Post a Comment