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Monday, December 9, 2013

Barbra Streisand: Big Money And Still The Big Schnoz

Barbra Streisand was born April 24, 1942 in New York. She has done well to say the least going from a singer in Gay clubs to a world famous singer who has sold more then 145 million records and over 70 million albums. She got here start with the help of her boyfriend by singing in Greenwich Village at The Lion in the early 1970,s. She is famously self absorbed once getting into an angry exchange with deceased  interviewer Mike Wallace about being such an egocentric.

She has had a lot of boyfriends and 2 husbands. One boyfriend, her ex-hairdresser Jon Peters, made her the godmother of his 2 children. she helped make him rich. She married actor James Brolin in 1998 and they are still married for better or worse.

She has raised 22 million for her women's cardiovascular center personally contributing 10 million dollars. She has also been very active politically getting behind Bill Clinton and providing her fundraising ability and money to help him to get elected.

She has that famous big nose which she has refused to have surgery on despite many requests for her to do so. She has however done some treatments  Botox on her face which was captured by the National Enquirer  photographing her leaving a clinic .

Babs will soon be celebrating her 70th birthday and can still put it together when the occasion arises.  .