Christina Milian: 25 Things You Don’t Know About Me (What Makes Me Proud to Be Latina)!

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It is Hispanic Heritage Month, and triple threat Christina Milian revealed to Us Weekly everything she loves about being Latinx.“What makes me proud to be Latina is that Latinos and Hispanics live out loud!” the “Dip It Low” artist, 40, exclusively told Us. “We tend to be happy people with a flair for life.

Our food, music, family values and work ethic play huge roles in how we live and conduct ourselves.”The Love Don’t Cost a Thing actress, who is Afro-Cuban, also got candid about her position as a Latinx business owner.

As the co-founder of the Beignet Box Cafe in Studio City, California, “I know how important having community support is to be successful,” Milian told Us. “I’m honored to be partnering with Yelp to bring even more awareness to small Latinx-owned businesses, as featured on Yelp’s list of Latinx ‘Ones to Watch’ businesses this month.The “Bedrock” singer — who shares daughter Violet, 12, with ex-husband The-Dream, and sons Isaiah, 2, and Kenna, 17 months, with boyfriend Matt Pokora — also “love[s] dancing merengue … to Latin music, of course.”Milian has been candid about her identity as Latinx, telling the Huffington Post in 2015 that she never felt that she “had to make a choice” between being African-American and Cuban.“Since early, it’d be like, I’m Cuban but [people] didn’t get it because I was also brown-skinned, and you usually see a fair-skinned Latino, so it was just like, ‘Oh, what are you?

Are you black? Are you white?'” she recalled at the time. The “AM to PM” singer always felt solid in her identity.“I didn’t feel like I had to make a choice,” she added. “I am what I am.”Keep scrolling to find out which pop icon made Milian cry (happy tears!), as well as the actress’ favorite activities with