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2. The Phil Spector connection definitely helped.
Sonny and Cher famously met in an L.A. coffee shop in 1962. Sonny (real name Salvatore) was eleven years older than the 16-year-old Cher. He was the coolest guy ever, Cher told an interviewer this year. He was also working for Phil Spector and helped get Cher a gig as a session singer for classics like Be My Baby by the Ronettes and Youve Lost That Lovin Feeling by the Righteous Brothers. 
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3. Ed Sullivan embarrassed her deeply.
Sonny and Chers first hits, Baby, Dont Go and I Got You, Babe, in 1964 and 1965, led to a gaggle of appearances on shows like Where The Action Is, Hullabaloo and Shindig! But a traumatic experience lay in store for Cher on The Ed Sullivan Show. Sullivan was legendary for his pronunciation of show as shew. Maybe it was that same accent that caused him to introduce Sonny and Cher as Sonny and Chur. Cher was so freaked out by the mispronunciation that she put an accent mark over the e so no one would make the same mistake. After about ten years, she felt secure enough to drop it.
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4. Motherhoods been tough for her and her kids.
After suffering four miscarriages, Cher gave birth in 1969 to Chastity Bono, the only child she had with Sonny; the little girl appeared on her parents show several times. When she was eighteen, Chastity came out as gay to her parents, who were generally supportive. A couple of years ago, Chastity told Cher that she would be undergoing gender-reassignment surgery to become a man. When I realized she was going to do it, Cher told Parade magazine this month, it was rocky for me. I thought, What will the press do to her? What will they do to the two of us together? But the press was kinder than I thought they would be. Cher also has a son, Elijah Blue, 34, with rocker Gregg Allman, who was briefly her husband. Like his father, Elijah Blue has been addicted to heroin, and Cher acknowledged to Vanity Fair that she wasnt always an expert mom. I did the best I could do, she said, yet it was definitely lacking.
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5. She considered suicide because of Sonnys infidelity.
Although the couples first joint TV venture, The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, was a ratings hit in the early 1970s, it ended after three seasons in 1974 because of the dues nasty divorce. Earlier this month, Cher told an interviewer about the heartbreak she suffered during the breakup. Stardom made Sonny a womanizer, she said. One woman, or even five, wasnt enough for him.I thought about jumping off a hotel balcony. Then I thought, No, I can just leave him. When I told Sonny, he said, 'If you leave me, America will hate you and you won't have a job.' I went, 'You know what, Sonny? I just don't care!'"
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6. Streisand probably wont want to hear this, but
She and Cher are the only stars who can claim both a number-one song and an Oscar. Cher won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in Silkwood, and an Oscar for Best Actress in Moonstruck. (Streisand won the Best Actress Award for Funny Girl, and the Best Original Song for A Star Is Born.)
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7. Shes still in touch with her former toy boy.
In the mid-1980s, Cher, then 40, fell in love with Rob Camilletti, 22, an aspiring actor who also worked in a bagel placeand who was promptly christened bagel boy by the press. Cher lived with him for about three years, and it wasnt any surprise that the relationship was so short. One of Chers best quotes on men is that they should be like Kleenexsoft, strong and disposable. Today, Camilletti pilots Gulfstream jets, and theyre still friends.
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8. Shes not afraid of redecorating.
In 2006, Cher decided she wanted to change the goth dcor in her Malibu mansion to something a little more Tibetan. So she had a yard sale at Sothebys, with the upscale auction house selling 784 of Chers things, including an antique balustrade fragment ($7,800) and a Bob Mackie Viking costume ($1,440). The highest-priced items werent exactly goth, however: a Rolex oyster watch ($15,600) and a 2003 Hummer ($45,600).
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10. She regrets nothing.
I wouldnt have done anything different, she told an interviewer, because you just do what you do and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesnt, but you have to keep going. Mistakes are just mistakes.
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