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For coming on a decade now, Rihanna has dominated the music industry.

From girl-next-door to girl-gone-wild, Rihanna’s image has changed over the years. As she’s grown in age and experience, she’s taken the reigns of her career and become one of the most famous faces on the planet. Everything—trauma and drama in her personal life, chart-topping smashes like “Stay” and “Umbrella,” vice like pot and junk food—has been on full display.

As she’s ascended to superstars status, Rihanna has been reticent to discuss private matters—especially her tumultuous, on-again-off-again relationship with fellow R&B luminary Chris Brown. But throughout the years, in various interviews, she has revealed the bits and pieces of her past that make her who she is today.

50 things you may not have Known About Rihanna

Rihanna witnessed an exorcism in Barbados at church
Rihanna grew up in a religious community, and once witnessed an exorcism at a friend’s home. “They were praying around this table,” she remembers. “We were young though, and one of the girls, she got up and she just started screaming. I remember they locked us in the bedroom because they didn’t want kids to see that. Every time they prayed she would start screaming in the weirdest voice. It’s funny now but at the time I was like shitting myself!”

Rihanna will not go to the Chateau Marmont because she’s afraid of ghosts.
Rihanna thinks the Chateau Marmont is haunted. “You can feel it, man,” she says. “It’s borrowed space.” John Belushi died of an overdose in one of the bungalows at the infamous Hollywood hotel, and a number of guests and employees have reported supernatural sightings.

Rihanna once walked in on her father smoking crack in their Barbados home.
Rihanna’s relationship with her father has had its ups and downs-he was using crack-cocaine during her childhood, which she saw first hand in her own home. Her parents got divorced when she was 14 years old.

Rihanna was chosen as the Maid of Honor at Katy Perry’s wedding but could not fly to India to attend due to conflicts with recording.
Rihanna was sad to miss the 2010 wedding of one of her closest friends, Katy Perry. It was held in India but Rihanna had to stay stateside to re-record tracks for her Loud album.
Chris Brown gave Rihanna a bouquet of marijuana for Valentine’s Day

Well, we think Chris Brown gave it to her—the two were definitely together on Valentine’s Day this year, and we know they get high together. And what more perfect present for the princess of pot?
Rihanna served in the Army Cadets-and Shontelle was her drill sergeant.The two singers grew up in Barbados, and when Rihanna was younger, she joined the Army Cadets in a sub-military programme and Shontelle was her drill sergeant. “We boss cadets around, we make them do push-ups,” Shontelle said. “Especially when they show up on the parade square late.

Rihanna struggled with crippling headaches during her childhood.
When Rihanna was younger, she struggled with daily headaches-something that she kept from friends and classmates. “I never expressed how I felt,”” she said. “I always kept it in. I would go to school…you would never know there was something wrong with me.”

Rihanna’s entire tour rider is filled with junk food.
Rihanna’s current tour rider is packed with junk food, junk food, and more junk food—like her choice snack: Flaming Hot Cheetos. You know, even world famous pop star sex symbols their munchies.
Rihanna promoted her debut album as an opening act on Gwen Stefani’s tour.It’s always great to hear who major superstars-Beyoncé, Madonna, and Rihanna, especially-have opened for when starting out in their careers. Rihanna went on Gwen’s Harajuku Lovers Tour 2005 in Japan to promote her album as one of the opening acts.

In February 2008, Barbados created a national holiday to honor Rihanna.

February 22 is Rihanna Day in Barbados-two days after her birthday. When she received the honor in 2008, she flew down to her home country to perform a special show.
Rihanna has admitted that she wants to be the black Madonna.
After Music Of The Sun, Rihanna was determined to give fans more of herself on the next project. When Good Girl Gone Bad dropped, Rihanna felt like it was the first step into truly become an artist. “The other stuff I did was easy breezy—a lot of [it] I felt was stuff that any artist could have done. This one only a certain artist can do. . . . I want to be the black Madonna,” she said.
Rihanna’s tour guitarist is Nuno Bettencourt from Extreme.
Nuno Bettencourt, of the Grammy-nominated hair metal group Extreme, whose single “More Than Words” topped charts in 1990, is Rihanna’s official tour guitarist.

Rihanna specifically wanted to make a strip club song on Unapologetic.
Rihanna likes strip clubs-we’ve seen her hit up famous ones like Perfections and Sin City-and she wanted a strip club song on Unapologetic. So when Chris Brown and Future suggested that she take on a particularly salacious-sounding Mike Will’s beat, she turned into her booty shake anthem, “Pour It Up.”
Before her shows, Rihanna sometimes sneaks out into the audience.
Before her concerts, Rihanna sometimes sneaks out into the audience in a big hoodie to disguise herself. “I’m too close for them to freak out,” she says of fans who might notice it’s her-but she’s always got security nearby just in case. “If they touch me, somebody’s going to tackle them.”
Rihanna takes a shot of liquor before she goes onstage to calm her nerves.

Just before taking the stage at every show, after sucking on lozanges and steaming her vocal chords, Rihanna takes a sip of liquor to calm her nerves. Sometimes it’s vodka, sometimes tequila, diluted with juice or water.
Rihanna has tattoo that reads “never a failure, always a lesson” backwards.Rihanna has a tattoo that says “Never a Failure, Always a Lesson” across her collarbone-written backwards so she can read it when she looks in the mirror.
Jay-Z signed Rihanna on the same day he met her.In February 2005, when Jay-Z met Rihanna, he wouldn’t let her leave the building until she signed a deal with him. The whole process took 12 hours-Rihanna auditioned for Jay and L.A. Reid, performing Whitney Houston’s version of “For the Love of You” along with “Pon de Replay” and “The Last Time.” She signed a six-album record deal with Def Jam Recordings that very day.

Rihanna is a big fan of the emo band Flyleaf.

Rihanna is a huge fan of the Christian rock band FlyLeaf. She raved about the band while hosting an MTV video countdown, choosing their 2005 hit “All Around Me” for her personal playlist, and saying she’s not a “new fan, she’s a huge fan.”

Rihanna won her high school’s beauty pageant and the title of Miss Combermere.
Rihanna attended Combermere High School in Barbados and in 2004, she won the school’s beauty pageant and the title of “Miss Combermere.” She performed a rendition of Mariah Carey’s “Hero” in the pageant.
Rihanna has turned down Playboy covers multiple times.
Rihanna has reportedly received numerous offers to pose in Playboy. She has not accepted.

After her shows, Rihanna says she strips down to just her fishnets for 30 minutes.Rihanna’s post-show regime, according to her recent Esquire cover story, is running into her dressing room and stripping down to her fishnets and “nothing else for like half an hour.”

Rihanna has the most number one hits on the US Billboard Pop Songs Chart.When “Stay” became Rihanna’s tenth single to top the US Billboard Pop Songs Chart in April, it set a new record—besting the nine notched by her BFF Katy Perry.
Rihanna has said that the beginning of her career felt claustrophic, and that she wasn’t able to truly be herself.
Rihanna describes the beginning of her career as “claustrophobic.” Def Jam execs wouldn’t let her wear anything too revealing, or even red lipstick, in efforts to cater to a younger demographic. “I feel like I was really really protected,” she has said. “Really guarded with myself. I feel like they were giving me the blueprint and I couldn’t get with that.”

Rihanna’s favorite restaurant is Giorgio Baldi.
When she’s in Los Angeles, Rihanna dines at Il Ristorante di Giorgio Baldi, a family-managed Italian restaurant in Santa Monica, nearly every night. And she is served by the same waiter, Marco, every time.

Jay-Z makes Rihanna try a lot of different foods.
It was Jay and Beyonce who introduced Rihanna to the restaurant. She credits them with expanding her palate beyond the junk food she so loves. “We have this thing called Taste Test Tuesdays,” she says. “Or New Flavor Fridays or Substitute Saturdays.”
Rihanna actually wears her own perfume, Nude.
During last-year’s notorious 777 Tour, when Rihanna flew 150 journalists around the world with her for seven days, everyone on the #RihannaPlane was Tweeting about how amazing the star smelled. Her first endorsement deal was with Secret Body Spray; these days, she wears her own perfume, Nude.

“Umbrella” was Rihanna’s favorite song of her own until “Diamonds.”
“Umbrella” was Rihanna’s favorite song of her own until “Diamonds,” dropped. “It’s a really powerful song even to listen to,” she says. “It just gets you… you just get sucked in. Even if you’re in the club, it really fucks with your head.”

Rihanna never graduated from high school.After auditioning for Evan Rogers at 15, Rihanna dropped out of high school to move to the U.S. to pursue her singing career-and she never finished school along the way.

Nothing bothers Rihanna more than when life’s perfect.
Nothing in life bothers Rihanna more than smooth sailing. “That’s the sick part,” she has said. “I just love a challenge, whether it’s a relationship, my career, clothing…”

In 2007, Rihanna said she’s “not fascinated by diamonds.”
When asked about her style in 2007, Rihanna said that she’s not “fascinated by diamonds,” preferring gold jewelry. Five years later, she broke BillboardCK chart records with the lead single off her Unapologetic album-a song called, ironically, “Diamonds.”

Jay-Z doing the intro on “Umbrella” was kept as a secret from Rihanna.
Rihanna had no idea that Jay-Z had recorded a verse for her 2007 smash “Umbrella” until she heard the full and final version.
Rihanna hit her younger brother in the face with a glass bottle.
Rihanna, the oldest of three children, with two younger brothers, grew up roughhousing. The time she hit one of the boys in the face with a glass bottle made their mother very angry. (And presaged the famous bottle-throwing brawl that erupted last June when her rival paramours Chris Brown and Drake wound up in the same room at NYC’s W.i.P.)

Manolo Blahnik makes custom shoes for Rihanna.
Nearly every pair of Manolo Blahnik shoes that Rihanna wears are custom-made-this due to her friendship with the designer and the fact that the statuesque star wears a size 9.

Rihanna didn’t like “Pon de Replay” at first.Rihanna didn’t like the track to her debut single “Pon De Replay” when she first heard it back in 2005. “I thought it sounded like a nursery rhyme,” Rihanna said of the club hit’s sing-songy melody; but she would grow to like it.

Rihanna was discovered by vacationing music producers in Barbados.
When she was 15, Rihanna formed a group with two classmates and went to audition for veteran producer Evan Rodgers. The minute she walked in, he has said, it was as if the other two girls didn’t exist. Rihanna moved immediately to Bronxville, New York and stayed with Evan and his family to work on her debut album.

The line “I’m such a f***in’ lady” from “Wait Your Turn” has become a mantra for Rihanna.
Rihanna’s style is sexy but never too girly. She says the line “I’m such a fuckin’ lady” from her single “Wait Your Turn” has become a mantra-for her style, her attitude, and her life.

Rihanna’s favorite Caribbean dish is curry chicken.
Rihanna is famous for her obsession junk food, and her favorite cuisine is Italian. But when she goes back home to Barbados, she can’t get enough curried chicken.
If she wasn’t a recording artist, Rihanna would be in school studying psychology.

If she wasn’t a chart-topping, award-winning pop star, Rihanna would still be in school studying psychology. But not happily. “I hate school,” she says, “so thank God I’m doing what I’m doing.”
Rihanna is friends with more men than women.Rihanna had very few female friends growing up, and even now, we rarely see her with anyone besides Melissa Forde and Katy Perry. “I have three girlfriends and a million guy friends,” she says.

Rihanna reached out to Nicki Minaj about co-writing uptempo songs for Rated R but was surprised when Nicki sent her back ballads instead.
Rihanna was stunned when she heard the songs Nicki Minaj wrote her for the Rated R album. “It was the end of the album but they were incredible songs,” she said. “The ballads were beautiful. I couldn’t believe it was a female emcee writing these songs.”

Before she gets a bikini wax, Rihanna specifies that the waxer must be older and speak a foreign language.
In an appearance on “The Graham Norton Show,” Rihanna said that she prefers getting bikini waxes from older, non-English speaking women-explaining that she once went to a younger person who recognized her, and it became an extremely uncomfortable situation.

Rihanna is of Afro-Guyanese, Barbadian and Irish descent.
Rihanna’s mother, Monica Braithwaite, is of Afro-Guyanese descent. Her father, Ronald Fenty, is Barbadian and Irish.

Rihanna was still relatively unknown in 2005 when someone spray-painted in big letters on a wall at the University of the West Indies: “WHO IS RIHANNA?”
When Rihanna signed her deal with Jay-Z in 2005, she was still largely unknown around her home in Barbados. After the news broke in The Barbados Advocate, someone spray-painted “Who Is Rihanna?” on a wall at the University of the West Indies.

The backlash to her “Birthday Cake” remix with Chris Brown took Rihanna by surprise.
Fans were shocked last year, when Rihanna dropped the “Birthday Cake” remix featuring her then-ex-boyfriend Chris Brown. People couldn’t believe that she would collaborate with the man who’d so famously and horribly beaten her in 2009. “I understood that people had every right to be concerned about it,” she said. “But I didn’t see it that way because I’m in a different place.”

Rihanna made a cameo appearance in the movie Bring It On: All or Nothing.
Long before her days in Battleship, Rihanna made a cameo appearance in the movie Bring It On: All or Nothing, wherein she announces a cheerleading competition and declares that the winners will appear in one of her music videos.

Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind” is one of Rihanna’s favorite records.Rihanna is a big fan of her mentor, Jay-Z’s, track “Empire State of Mind” featuring Alicia Keys. She says that it makes her want to be from New York.

Rihanna loves pranking people.
All that time on the tour bus must get pretty boring for Rihanna and her crew-but don’t worry, she spends most of the time pranking the tightknit group of people she’s round.

Rihanna’s favorite movie is Napoleon Dynamite.
Rihanna has talked about her love of reality television, watching TV in her downtime, and how sometimes she just sits in front of the screen even when it’s off. It’s been reported that her favorite movie of all time is Napoleon Dynamite, which isn’t too much of a surprise because it’s a great movie to watch high.

Rihanna appeared on an episode of “All My Children.”
In 2006, Rihanna appeared on the daytime soap opera “All My Children.

” She walked down a red carpet featuring reporters playing themselves and performed at the opening of a club called ConFusion in the fictional town of Pine Valley.