Kylie Minogue has just turned 50 and joined the cohort of apparently ageless female celebs in their middle years.
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The Aussie pop sensation has been churning out hits since the 1980s, reinventing her style numerous times, and shes still making albums today.
Many fans wont realise that shes only 5ft tall, and that she actually began her career as a soap star, on the hit soap Neighbours.
In her personal life the Melbourne native has survived breast cancer, had some high-profile romances and unveiled countless waxworks of herself in Madame Tussauds.
The only person with a greater number of waxworks in the museum is Queen Elizabeth II. Heres what else we know about Kylie….
Kylie Minogue was born in Melbourne in May 1968 to a Welsh dancer mother and an Aussie accountant father with Irish ancestry.
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She has one brother, Brendan, 47, who is a cameraman in Australia, and a famous younger sister Dannii, 46, a pop singer who has judged on The X Factor.
From the age of 11 she started to get small TV roles, and even played truant from school to do them.
But things didnt go to plan and she began to pursue a career in music, recording demo tapes and singing on Aussie telly, after being sacked from kids TV show The Henderson Kids.
She then landed a role as tomboy mechanic Charlene Robinson in Neighbours at the age of 18 in 1986, and the soap had a huge following in the UK, making her known over here.
Her first recording contract came in 1987, and her first single was The Loco-Motion, though shes also known for early hits like I Should Be So Lucky, Better The Devil You Know and Especially For You, a duet with Neighbours co-star Jason Donovan.
Much of her early success can be attributed to working with the producers Stock, Aitken & Waterman who made many ultra-catchy 80s hits.
Despite being a dynamic performer, many think of Kylie as the antidote to Madonna, as her persona is down-to-earth and she has never used music to try and make statements or shock anyone.
Her early hits flew off the shelves, and Kylie even returned to acting (as she does occasionally in her career) with her first movie The Delinquents in 1989.
She has released 14 albums, her latest in 2018 being Golden, and each one has been very different from the last.
Her biggest-selling hits have been Cant Get You Out Of My Head, Especially For You, I Should Be So Lucky, Hand On Your Heart and The Loco-Motion.
Kylies even been in an episode of Doctor Who, and her movie roles include Holy Motors, Moulin Rouge and San Andreas.
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As of 2018, she is worth an estimated $90 million (£64.1m).
But behind her massive success Kylie has carried the burdens of a complicated personal life.
Kylie went through a very public struggle with breast cancer, which she was diagnosed with in 2005, and she became an ambassador for breast cancer awareness.
She has also dated several famous men, including Lenny Kravitz in 1991.
Her first famous boyfriend was INXS frontman Michael Hutchence, who she was with for a few years from the end of the 1980s.
Then in 2003 she entered a romance with French actor Olivier Martinez which lasted until 2007, and they remained on good terms.
He went on to marry and have kids with Halle Berry before their divorce in 2015.
Then in 2016 Kylie announced she was engaged to 30-year-old actor Joshua Sasse, after a few months of dating.
They called off the engagement in 2017 amid reports that he had been unfaithful.
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