Known for:	Belle of the Yukon, The Over-the-Hill Gang, Ali Baba Goes to Town
Birth name:	Rose Louise Hovick
Birthday:	9 February 1914, Seattle, Washington, USA
Height:	5' 8" (1.73 m)
Available Photos	6

Sister of June Havoc. Gypsy Rose started dancing and stripping at burlesque houses at the age of 15 with the assistance of fellow dancer "Tessie The Tassel Twirler." She retired from burlesque 8 years later to appear in films but documented her rise to fame and adventurous relationship with her mother in the autobiographical book, "Gypsy." Mother of Erik Lee Preminger Measurements: 37-23-36 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine) In the 1940s, Gypsy Rose Lee was in love with the theatrical impresario Michael Todd, who produced two Broadway shows starring Lee, "Star and Garter" and "The Naked Genius"). She married William Alexander Kirkland in 1942 in an attempt to make the already-married Todd jealous. They divorced in 1944. While married to Kirkland, she had a brief fling with Otto Preminger. The fruit of their affair was a boy named Erik Lee, who has been known successively as Erik Kirkland, Erik de Diego, and Erik Lee Preminger. Aunt of April Kent. Is portrayed by Natalie Wood in Gypsy and Cynthia Gibb in Gypsy. At one of her weddings, Gypsy had a chimpanzee as a ring bearer. When she was diagnosed with cancer in 1969, she called it "a present from mother". She had many pets, including cats, turtles, guinea pigs, and Chinese crested dogs. Although she was a "stripper", she never actually got undressed. The walls of her Los Angeles home were adorned with pictures by Joan Miro , Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, and Dorothea Tanning, all of which were reportedly gifts to her by the artists themselves. Like her mother, Lee was married three times.

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