Tila Tequila: A Shot at Internet Love
Tila Nguyen, also known as Tila Tequila, is an American model, entertainer, and singer residing in West Hollywood, California. She is known for her appearances in Stuff, Maxim, Time, her role as host of the Fuse TV show Pants-Off Dance-Off and her position as the most popular person on MySpace. She was raised in Houston, Texas.
Tila became famous mostly because of her popularity in MySpace. Nguyen’s career began at the age of eighteen when she was discovered at the Sharpstown Mall by a Playboy scout and was offered a chance to model nude for the magazine and did a test shoot,then eventually moved to Southern California and was featured as Playboy’s Cyber Girl of the week on April 22, 2002, and soon thereafter she became the first Asian Cyber Girl of the Month.
Nguyen gained further popularity through the import racing scene. Nguyen was featured on the cover of the April 2006 issue of Stuff magazine; in the interview, she claimed that her nickname “Tila Tequila” came about when she was in middle school after she had experimented with alcohol but then had a severe allergic reaction to it. On March 26, 2007, Nguyen announced in her MySpace blog that she would be filming a reality show for VH1. She owns websites Tila’s Hot Spot and TilaFashion.com. Nguyen used modeling as a stepping stone for other ventures. Nguyen released her first single “I Love U” through iTunes on February 27, 2007 which made its way to the top of the ITunes charts in 24 hours! (Source…)
