Carmen Electra recently opened up about her intense 1990s relationship with the late music icon Prince. She revealed he required her to maintain a highly manicured aesthetic around the clock, even demanding she sleep in “full glam” with a complete face of makeup and fully styled hair.
According to a recent retrospective report, the “Purple Rain” singer also instructed the young star to keep a pair of high heels directly next to her bed just in case he decided to unexpectedly visit her room.
Born Tara Leigh Patrick, she was discovered by Prince’s inner circle in a Los Angeles nightclub as a teenager. He gave her the famous stage name and relocated her to his Minneapolis compound in 1991 to fund and produce her 1993 self-titled debut album.
This intense level of aesthetic control mirrored Prince’s stylistic oversight of previous protégées like Vanity and Apollonia. Electra ultimately found the strict demands and the constant presence of other women at Paisley Park too stifling. She eventually left the compound, experiencing a brief period of near-homelessness in Los Angeles before launching her independent career as a television sex symbol on MTV’s Singled Out and Baywatch in 1996.