Like most future tabloid targets, Amber Rose started her life living hard, fighting and being an attractive center of attention. Raised in South Philadelphia, she was an immediate outcast at school and was frequently singled out for her appearance. With a lighter skin tone than many of her classmates, Amber Rose was forced to fight other girls regularly, which only made her tougher, more confident and thicker-skinned in the process. It also made for a group of brokenhearted and jealous Kanye West fans much later on.

While her early introductions to insults and fighting could have led to a childhood of mistakes, Amber Rose kept her miscues to a minimum. One of those miscues was named Ernest, her first love and the man who got her an underage tattoo bearing his name -- all at the age of 15. To this day, Rose keeps Ernest tattooed on her arm, not as a fond memory, but as a reminder of what kind of man she doesn't want. It was an impressive grudge, to be sure, and also a simple expression of Rose's fiery personality.

Amber Rose initially wanted to own a restaurant as an adult. While it's something she could still do in the future, she found that her love of food was eclipsed by her desire to be sexually open and expressive. As a result, exotic dancing came into her life at the Philadelphia strip joint, Delilah's.

Now more comfortable in her own skin and equally adept at dancing, Amber Rose sought out better digs and moved to New York in 2007 after a chance encounter with an agent served as her introduction to life as a professional model. Now paid to look pretty while keeping her clothes on, Rose promptly shook up a storm in music videos, with two gigs for Young Jeezy ("Vacation" and "Put On") followed by a higher profile spot as a token hottie in "What Them Girls Like" by Ludacris. She would also come to be great pals with Rihanna.

In 2009, Amber Rose took a big splash into the celebrity pool by hooking up with crooner/fashion expert Kanye West. Initially spotted at Fashion Week in New York, they have been frequently photographed doing things that "famous people do," like expensive shopping and partying it up with Perez Hilton.

A fashion aficionado herself, Rose is now synonymous with wearing dark sunglasses up above, denim over her shoulders, and spandex down below. Can we make fun of her outfits? Maybe. What about her fame? Nope. Amber Rose's fate as Kanye's lady friend was sealed with a revealing Louis Vuitton ad that featured her comfortably nude next to the big man himself. In Rose, Kanye West has found an equal -- someone who is just as fashion-conscious, over-the-top and brazenly charismatic as he is -- and for the time being, it will no doubt change his own image and propel Amber Rose's popularity in the process. A little less about love and more about fame? Maybe that's why they're relationship is on-again, off-again, and Rose was caught canoodling with Chris Brown at Diddy and Ashton Kutcher's Fourth of July White Party in 2009.

So what does the future actually hold for Amber Rose? Diversity. Trained in acting, she's aching to play a role that is completely removed from her public persona. She's also a foodie who would love to own her own restaurant. Lastly, she wants travel around the world and work to improve the lives of women and children afflicted with HIV. Like many observers, we're not quite sure what to make of Ms. Amber Rose, but we are divinely curious to see exactly which direction she chooses. Come on, surprise us!