Interesting Biography Facts
Real name
Karrueche Tientrese Tran
Occupation
model, actress
Birth Date
May 17, 1988
Age
36 years
Zodiac Sign
Taurus
Birthplace
Los Angeles, California, United States
Education
Birmingham High School; Pierce College
Nationality
American
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Karrueche Tran family members
Father's Name
DeVon Minters
Mother's Name
Cindy Adamson
Siblings names
Raymond Adamson (brother)
Is Karrueche Tran a lesbian/bisexual?
No
What is Karrueche Tran marital status?
Single
Victor Cruz (ex-boyfriend)
Date of birth: November 11, 1986
Who are Karrueche Tran parents?
DeVon Minters (father)
Karrueche Tran isn’t ready to speak about her parents a lot. She easily tells that she was dreaming to become an interior designer and hairdresser, while studying in a high school, but she is very private about everything, which concerns her parents.
Her father, DeVon Minters, is African American. Although it’s not proved, but it looks like he doesn’t live with the girl’s mother. When Ms. Tran was in her middle school years, she discovered that her father was a gay. That’s why she was so impressed, when she heard Caitlyn Jenner transgender story.
But she is really close with her dad and spends a lot of time with him. Paparazzi catch them, having dinner in lavish places from time to time.
Cindy Adamson (mother)
Cindy Adamson, Karrueche’s mother, is from Vietnam. In her interview the model shared, that she got acquainted with Asian culture through her mom and her godmother.
Ms. Tran has amicable relationships with her parent. She congratulates her mother on various holidays through Instagram, goes for Christmas shopping with her and attends sushi bars.
Karrueche Tran siblings
Raymond Adamson (younger brother)
Ray, Karrueche’s little brother, is one of her best friends. The girl quite often parties with her only sibling (although she has lots of cousins). Ray leads life of a typical teenager – he likes sports, visits football matches and travels a lot. He is proud of his big family (once he uploaded a picture with all his relatives on Instagram).
Bio
She grew up like an ordinary kid in Los Angeles, and has never thought about becoming a celebrity. But she went into the limelight in 2010, when she became Chris Brown girlfriend. Karrueche was the first woman, whom a scandalous rapper started dating after his painful split from Rihanna.
Her high-profile romance ended in 2015 after she discovered that her loved one fathered a kid with another woman. After the separation, her career started to develop rapidly. She launched the make-up line and got the regular role in a digital sitcom “The Bay”.
It’s not known, whether Ms. Tran has any acting ambitions, but not long ago she portrayed an ex-prostitute in TNT series “Claws”. Recently the project was renewed for its third season.
Previously to acting, the young beauty worked as a stylist at a fashion retailer. She found that job in 2009 after graduation from a high school. Then she started career of a model and gradually moved her way on television.
Nowadays Karrueche is known as a philanthropist, too. She participates in various charity events, such as visiting Children’s Hospital ATL on Halloween this year.
Interesting and fun facts
- In addition to her status of an aspiring actress and fashion star, she is also an Instagram girl with more than 8 million of followers. Besides, Karrueche founded a YouTube channel in 2011, where she shares her TV show news, makeup tips and workout routine. The girl boasts with 340k+ subscribers.
- Like a young, but promising actress, Karrueche Tran joined Will and Jada Smith (Willow Smith parents) in their Atlanta tour “’Careers In Entertainment”.
- In one of her interviews the girl told, that acting is a special and a bit therapeutic experience for her. She is a very private person and demonstrating her emotions is not so easy for her. She works with an acting coach to do it easy and naturally. Unlike many other actors, who started to play at a childhood age, Ms. Tran gave a chance to this profession at the age of 26. But she really likes what she is doing.
- Her role model is an actress Denise Richards. Karrueche considers her as a strong and ambitious woman and also as a mother, who knows, what she wants. The young actress gets her inspiration from Richards.
- Before she fell in love with modeling and acting, Ms. Tran was interested in graphic design and even went to a special school to study it. But then she dropped out her lessons, telling that she is not “a college girl”.
- Karrueche Tran tells, it’s very hard for her to find the right man and build happy relationships with him because of constant attention of paparazzi. The star tries to keep her personal life out of limelight, but journalists quite often catch her on dates with rich and famous men. Soon after her split from Chris Brown she was hanging in the night club with a Dutch soccer star Memphis Depay. Both denied dating rumors. She also dated Quavo.
- Her favorite perfumes are Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb and Tom Ford Velvet Orchid.