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Tila Tequila (born Tila Nguyen) was born in Singapore, where her family had emigrated from Vietnam after the Vietnam War. When Nguyen was a year old, she and her family moved to Alief, a suburb of Houston, where they lived, until they were admitted to a gated community run by a strict Buddhist temple. The family left the community when Nguyen was eight. After some problems with gangs, and drugs she fled to Queens, New York at the age of 16.

Nguyen's career began at the age of 18 when she was discovered at the Sharpstown Mall by a Playboy scout and was offered a chance to model nude for the magazine. She did a test shoot, then eventually moved to Southern California and was featured as Playboy’s Cyber Girl of the week on April 22, 2002, and soon thereafter she became the first Asian Cyber Girl of the Month. A few more pictorials for the magazine followed.

Nguyen was featured on the cover of the April 2006 issue of Stuff magazine; in the interview, she claimed that her nickname "Tila Tequila" came about when she experimented with alcohol in middle school and had a severe allergic reaction. She was later included in Stuff’s 100 Sexiest Women Online. She appeared on the August 2006 Maxim UK cover, was named #88 in their Hot 100 List, and also appeared in the December 2007 issue.

On October 9, 2007, A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila aired on MTV. The program is a bisexual-themed reality dating show where 16 straight men and 16 lesbian women compete for Tila's affections, the twist being that the contestants were not aware of Tequila's bisexuality until the end of the first episode.

The show was at the heart of a heated online debate between Tequila and conservative Christians after an article appeared on The Christian Post on September , 2007.[20] After seeing the article, Tequila wrote an impassioned response in her blog on September 28, 2007, criticizing churches for "bashing" the gay community while thanking God for saving her life.]]> en-us Gallery 2 RSS Module, version 1.1.0 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:12:59 -0400 120 http://www.hohouse.com/d/257-4/tila_tequila.jpg http://www.hohouse.com/v/tila_tequila/ http://www.hohouse.com/v/tila_tequila/tila-tequila.jpg.html http://www.hohouse.com/v/tila_tequila/tila-tequila.jpg.html ]]> photo Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:35:34 -0400