Cher: After Sonny and I separated, I got my first tattoo. I thought it would be something different, a statement of freedom. 'Good' girls didn't get tattoos then, no one was doing it.
Cher: My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky. But then she would be really depressed and have a hard time coming out of her room. See, when you are young, it all seems normal.
Cher: I am never offended when I see the drag-queens dressed up like me. The only problem that I have ever come acrossed, is that some of them are a little too good at it, and I wind up asking them how they did their eyes, or hair.
Cher: Elijah and I are similar in the romance department. I enjoy the company of younger men, and he prefers the company of an older woman. Maybe they are right, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Cher earned critical acclaim playing the drug addicted motorcycle mom 'Rusty' alongside Eric Stolz and Sam Shephard, in the award winning film Mask.
Cher auctioned off 700 personal items, including costume jewlery and her own bed, in a bid to raise more than one million dollars for charity. The auctioneers estimated that the items would bring in around $1.5 million, instead the ending total was $3.5 million.
Cher and her daughter Chastity produce the reality television show Family Outing for the LOGO network, Viacom's gay channel.
Cher was caught off-guard during a visit to The Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah didn't warn her ahead of time, that she would be sharing footage of her giving the eulogy at ex-husband Sonny's funeral. Until that moment, Cher was not even aware that such footage existed. She took a 45 minute leave to gather herself and stop crying to rejoin the taping of the episode. Oprah apologized, citing that the footage was not intended to upset Cher, it was just part of a tribute to her legacy.
Cher's lengthy 2002-2005 series of concerts was listed by The Guinness Book of World Records (2007) as the top grossing tour by a female performer.
Cher didn't speak to her daughter Chastity for a week after finding out that she was a lesbian. After she 'cooled off' she not only embraced Chastity's lifestyle, but has become one of GLAAD's biggest supporters.
Cher sang the National Anthem for Superbowl XXXIII in 1999.
Cher and her son, Elijah Blue Allman, performed a duet of the song "Crimson and Clover" for the soundtrack of the movie A Walk on The Moon. Incidentally, Elijah Blue fronts his own band called Deadsy.
In the mid 1990's, Cher ran a mail order company that primarily featured home accessories. The name of the company was Sanctuary.
Cher has graced the cover of People magazine 25 times.
Cher was the subject of an episode of The X Files called "The Post-Modern Prometheus". This episode revolved around a deformed man who adored Cher because of the role she had played in the movie Mask. Several Cher songs appeared on the soundtrack of this episode. Cher later stated that she regretted not having appeared in it personally.
Cher was named after Lana Turner's daughter, Cheryl Crane.
Cher had her last name legally removed in court.
Cher ranked number 43 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock 'n' Roll.
Cher won a Grammy in 2000 for her hit song entitled "Believe".
The first song Cher ever recorded is called 'I Love You Ringo' and she recorded it using the name Bonnie Jo Mason in 1963.
Cher was offered the part of Thelma in the 1991 film Thelma and Louise.
Cher dated David Geffen not long after she and Sonny Bono divorced.
Cher has been married twice. The first marriage was to Sonny Bono and produced one daughter - Chastity Sun Bono. Cher's second marriage was to rocker Greg Allman with whom she had a son - Elijah Blue Allman.
Cher is a Katharine Hepburn fan.
Cher's measurements are purportedly 32B-24-36 (from 1990), 34C-24-35 1/2 (after breast-lift surgery), and 35 1/2 -25 1/2-36 (in the late 1990's).
Cher holds the record for a female artist who has had the longest span from entering the top 100 (I Got You Babe #1 1965, Song For The Lonely #85 2002), the longest gap between #1 hits (Dark Lady 1974, Believe 1999), and for oldest female artist with a #1 hit.
Cher was diagnosed as dyslexic when she was 30 years old.
Cher won the 1987 Academy Award for Best Actress in a motion picture for her role in Moonstruck.
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