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BIO:
 Wynonna
Ellen Judd (born Christina Claire Ciminella on
May 30, 1964, in Ashland, Kentucky) is an
Award-winning Country Music singer. She often
goes by the single name Wynonna (pronounced
"Wye-NO-nah"). Her immediate family
consists of her mother Naomi, half sister
Ashley, son Elijah Judd (born December 23,
1994), daughter Pauline Grace (born June 21,
1996), and her second husband and former
bodyguard, D.R. Roach (married November 22,
2003).
She
sang as a duo with her mother. They were known
as The Judds.
Wynonna
is an active and vocal member of the Recording
Artists' Coalition, an American music industry
organization that represents recording artists,
and attempts to defend their rights and
interests.
Since
her career began some of her many, many
achievements include no less than 20 #1 singles,
a Grammy award and a performance in an all-star
line up at the Superbowl opening in 1994.
In
November 2003, Wynonna appeared on an episode of
The Oprah Winfrey Show discussing what she
described as a "severe" dependency to
food. She has been working with the show to lose
a significant amount of weight and get to the
root of her dependency. In September 2005
Wynonna made a second appearance on the show,
discussing how she has lost some weight (but not
yet at her goal weight) and has patched up a
broken relationship with her mother. That same
month, in an interview for The Insider, Wynonna
also talked about being sexually assaulted by an
acquaintance when she was younger.Read
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