Mel C’s New Self-Titled Album Represents a ‘New Chapter’

Our beloved Mel Chisholm AKA Sporty Spice from the greatest 90s pop group ever, The Spice Girls, has officially come into her own. The 46-year singer has released a new album all about self-empowerment and fans couldn’t be more delighted.

Not Just a Spice Girl

Mel C shot to fame in 1996 at 22 when she, along with the rest of the group released their instant hit “Wannabe.” While Mel C had a great run with the group, she was the only one truly determined to set herself apart from the group when they ended in 1998. In 1999 she released her debut album “Northern Star,” she then went onto release six more solo albums.

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The Reunion

Recently Chisolm reunited with Ginger, Scary, and Baby for a reunion tour (sadly Posh couldn’t make it.) After the experience, the singer commented on the incredible response from her fans saying ″When I went on stage with the girls, it was such an incredible experience,″ Melanie says in this week’s issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday. ″It made me feel very reflective. I loved being Sporty Spice again, and I realize that she’s such a huge part of who I am as a person and who I am as a performer. I wanted to really celebrate that.″

The New Album

With that behind her, Mel C couldn’t be in a better place emotionally to promote her new solo album which is all about self-love and self-empowerment. In the coming year, the pop star will be gearing up for a European tour. She has also even expressed her interest in another Spice Girls reunion, this time hopefully with Posh on board. She told People ″the whole world supported us back in the ’90s, so I would love to get back and perform everywhere,″ she says. ″Beyond touring my solo music, I would love to do more Spice shows. I think there’s room for both.”

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Marilyn Monroe

I Marilyn Monroe was an American model, singer, and actress who made waves in the 1950s and 1960s known for her powerful beauty, charm, and fierce attitude. Today she remains an icon of pop culture.

II Monroe was born in 1926 and was then named Norma Jeane Mortenson. Unbeknownst to her as a child, Monroe's mother had two children prior to Norma Jeane with an abusive man. Monroe finally met her sister as an adult.

III Though her mother, Gladys, struggled with severe mental health issues, Monroe enjoyed happy and stable infancy. Much of which was in the care of her foster parents, Ida and Albert Bolender - evangelical Christians from the rural town Hawthorne.

IV When Monroe was only 8 years old, her mother was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. The young child was then moving from home to home, which made her withdrawn. She finally found a somewhat permanent home in 1938.

V Monroe's modeling career really took off in 1945 when she was signed with the Blue Book Model Agency. She quit her day job at a factory, doing so against the wishes of her husband, who was deployed in the marines.

VI It was at this point, at the start of her modeling career that Norma Jeane dyed her dark hair light, which would earn her the nickname, "blonde bombshell". It was in 1946 when she began working with Fox that she took the name, Marilyn Monroe.