Facts

- Carmits nickname is Foxy

- Her Dutch-Indonesian and Chinese mother modeled and gave dance lessons

- Her Israeli father acted in movies with Elvis Presley

- When she was three years old, she decided to got into the show business

- She was born with a cleft lip and palate

- Until she was 16, she had surgery almost every year to try to fix this condition

- She started her own non-profit 'Smile With Me', which helps 'cleft' kids getting into performing arts

- At age 5, her mother enrolled her in a kids' performance group

- She grew up as an only child

- Now she has two younger brothers

- She graduated in 1992

- She studied music, dance, piano and viola

- Currently she has a dog called Chula

- Her first dog was killed in a car accident

- When her dog Brandi got cancer she had to put him to sleep

- Carmits favorite band is No Doubt

- Gwen Stefani is her inspiration

- Carmit has worked with Macy Gray

- Her role models are Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Angelina Jolie

- She has got a tattoo with the chinese symbols for tao, love and spirit

- Her real hair colour is blonde; she coloured her hair to red in '97

- Carmits favourite movie is 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'

- Her favourite movie soundtrack is 'Run Lola Run'

- In 2001 she started with friends an underground show called 'Freedom', which became later 'The Zodiac Party'

- Her best life experiences are the first big love and the Pussycat Dolls

- Carmit is a Pussycat Doll since of the beginning in 1995

- In her opinion 'Wait A Minute' was one of the funniest videos to shoot

- Her life motto is: "Be creative in your life and go the way, you would like to go!"

- She says about her soft spot that sometimes she is too disciplined

- Her personal strength is always finding the positive in any situation

- Carmit was the 'LaVida Loca girl' on Ricky Martins worldtour

- She danced in over 14 different music video from '98 to '03

- She was a dancer for a Mervyn's TV commercial

- She was a dancer at Beyoncé's world tour in 2003

- Carmit and Beyoncé have the same birthdays (4. September)

- She even danced in Janet Jackson's famous Superbowl performance in 2004

- Carmit celebrates Hanukah but also Christmas, because lots of her family members celebrate it

- Carmit describes herself in three words: Love, Passion, Inspiration

- Carmit's present for Melody's 22nd birthday was a dreambook, where Mel could write her funniest dreams down

- Gwen Stefani calls Carmit 'baby lamb'

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