Dita Von Teese Opens Up About Marilyn Manson!

Dita (on the hardest thing about stripping): 

To make it look effortless and natural.

Dita (on the best thing about her divorce from Marilyn Manson):

There’s a long list. I am happy to have the drugs out of my life.

Dita: (on her most prized possession):

I took my engagement diamond and had it transformed at a Christian Dior in Paris into a beautiful ring. It’s nice; it’s big. I feel like I suffered greatly for that diamond, and it needed to be reborn into something better.

Dita (on her vintage style kitchen):

One of my big extravagances when I moved out of my former husband’s house was a matching pink stove and refrigerator in ’50s style. Unlike real vintage items, they work. Obsolete item she can’t bear to part with: Everything I have is obsolete. That’s the point.

Dita (on the extra bedrooms in her house):

I turned one of them into a dark, jewel box of a bedroom. Another is a wardrobe with my dresses, shoes, and vintage clothes. The third is devoted to my hat collection and vanity. It’s a real powder room.

Dita (on animals in her house):

I have various taxidermied animals. I have a peacock, swans and birds in large glass domes. They’re beautiful.

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