She was born Angela Renee White, but you know her as Blac Chyna. She’s the woman who likes to find fame, cause controversy and make a name for herself everywhere she goes. She has certainly managed to take control of that by worming her way into the Kardashian family by managing to get engaged to and pregnant by the only boy in the family, Robert Kardashian. He’s not known for being too close to his family, but he is known for having some emotional issues and for being a bit of a wild card. Now he is marrying the woman who has a baby with his sister’s ex-boyfriend, and he’s having a baby with her. Blac Chyna might have started her career as a stripper, but she’s a lot smarter than any of us ever gave her credit for. She went from taking off her clothes for money to having babies with rappers and famous reality stars, and she’s about to be a Kardashian. That’s not something many people can say, and we think we know how she did it.

It was May 11, 1988 when Angela Renee White came into the world in Washington D.C. We don’t know much about her childhood other than the fact that she grew up and decided that college wasn’t for her but stripping was. We can leave that to our imagination but we don’t think it’s fair to assume she was raised a certain way based on the choices she’s made so far in her adult life. Before she began calling herself Blac Chyna, she decided the classy name “Cream” would work in her stripping gig. She began this in 2010 when she was only 22, and she thought she might make some money taking off her clothes.

She also began something called urban modeling, which is questionable at best. One of her clients at the strip club where she worked was a black man with eyes like an Asian man, so he called himself Black China. She decided she liked the name, changed the spelling and took it from him. She continued to strip most of the year while she also posed for magazine spreads, but she did not become famous until Drake mentioned her in one of his songs. That’s when she was noticed by both Nicki Minaj and Kanye West and they both had her in their videos.

At that point, she was named model of the year by urban modeling in 2011, and she was ready for more. She wanted the fame and fortune, so she began working extra jobs that rumor has it meant she had to do some other things, though no one can confirm or deny that but her. She met a rapper by the name of Tyga that year. They got engaged, and then they had a baby less than a year later Their breakup was not a good one in 2014, and she was left to care for herself and her son. She decided to go to beauty school and begin a line of cosmetics and makeup. Her little business led her to open a beauty bar in Encino, but she still wanted more than just her fair share of fame. This allowed her to become friends with other controversial models such as Amber Rose and a few others who were constantly in the press. She would come out and say anything about anyone at any time, most notably when she began going after Kylie Jenner, who was dating her baby’s daddy after their breakup.

For two years, Blac Chyna and Kylie and Tyga went at it, and suddenly Chyna was dating Rob Kardashian. The entire world, including the Kardashian family, was appalled. We don’t know how they met. We don’t know what happened. What we know is this; Rob is alienated from most of his family. He’s overweight, he has no job, he has no goals in life and he has no real relationship with his mother since she wants her kids to make money, money, money. We begin to speculate that perhaps Blac Chyna knew that this was a man who didn’t care much for his family and would look for ways to hurt them.

Insert Blac Chyna in some way she could meet him. A beautiful woman paying attention to a man with serious self-esteem issues. She begins to date him. She then ‘forgets’ to take her birth control pill or whatever, and suddenly she is pregnant. Now she’s engaged, and she will have the only grandchild to carry on the Kardashian name. Within a week of announcing her engagement and her pregnancy, she’s already claimed legal rights to the name Angela Kardashian and plans on using it for her business. Tell us that’s not a woman who managed to weasel her way into a family that could change her life forever, despite the fact that no one wanted her there.

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