Adrienne Eliza Bailon (born October 24, 1983) is an American singer, actress, songwriter and fashion designer. She was a part of the former girl group trio 3LW and The Cheetah Girls with Kiely Williams and Sabrina Bryan as part of the actual group, and as an actress in Disney Channel Original Movie of the same name and latter sequels which brought the latter group to prominence.
Career
In 1999, she along with Kiely Williams and Naturi Naughton formed the girl group 3LW, which rose to fame in 2001. However, Naughton departed the group due to numerous conflicts and arguments with Bailon and Williams in 2002. In early 2003, both Bailon and Williams replaced Naughton with Jessica Benson. The newly formed 3LW recorded an unreleased album, and eventually disbanded in 2007, with Bailon and Williams concentrating on the Cheetah Girls. The group performs and tours without Raven-Symoné, who was only a group member in the movies The Cheetah Girls and The Cheetah Girls 2.Since January 2009, Bailon has hosted special event programming, along with interstitial segments between afternoon programming for MTV
Personal life
Bailon was born to a Puerto-Rican mother and an Ecuadorian father.has an older sister named Claudette. She attended the High School for Health Professions and Human Services in New York City.Bailon started dating Rob Kardashian in the summer of 2007, and has appeared on the E! reality series Keeping Up With The Kardashians several times as a result.
In November 2008, racy personal photographs of Bailon ended up circulating over the Internet, taken for Kardashian on a laptop computer which Bailon has said was stolen while she was coming off a flight at New York's JFK Airport. The pictures were at first reported to be held for ransom as part of an extortion plot for $1,000, and were later leaked out. the time, Bailon and her authorized publicist stated publicly that they would seek damages from whoever stole the computer and leaked the photos.
Johnathon Jaxson, a gossip blogger who claimed to represent Bailon publicly (in his regular gossip segment on Atlanta CBS affiliate WGCL-TV's morning show on November 11) confessed into saying that the entire leak was a hoax perpertrated by him and Bailon to give a bump to Bailon's career.However, Jaxson has been chastised by the gossip community themselves as trying to drive more traffic to his own gossip blog, and is currently involved with a civil defamation lawsuit with Perez Hilton. At the same time, Rob's sister Kim Kardashian claimed a day later that a rumor that Jaxson set up a photo opportunity about her love life six months before was completely untrue. Currently who actually circulated the pictures is still in question, and since the WGCL interview, Bailon and Jaxson have not spoken on the matter. However in the aftermath of the photos being released, Macy's cancelled the appearance of the Cheetah Girls within their 2008 Thanksgiving Day Parade, citing "scheduling issues".
