Girlicious

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Natalie, Nichole, Tiffanie and Chrystina. They are sassy, sexy, seductive and sweet, and they have voices to match. They ooze a sex appeal so innocent, it hurts. And when they move, the world moves around them. A year ago they were four strangers who shared a single dream. Today they are four best friends living that dream. They are more than just delicious, they are Girlicious. And they are going to make you squirm with delight. You aren’t born Girlicious, though, you have to earn it. They began as four girls amongst thousands of the most talented and charismatic singers and dancers in the country. Of the thousands, twelve were hand-chosen from nationwide auditions to compete on the CW network’s smash television reality show “The Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious.” The concept was simple, with a panel of judges that included Pussycat Dolls founder Robin Antin, Geffen Records Chairman Ron Fair and multi-platinum recording artist Lil Kim running the girls through a “Pussycat Dolls Boot Camp” of challenges designed to determine which three girls were most ready to have their lives transformed and superstardom thrust upon them as they became the next great girl band. Apparently that was a harder task than the judges had expected, because in a series finale viewed by millions, the judges shocked America and the five finalists by announcing that Girlicious would be fronted by four femme-fatales, not three. And just like that, stars were born: Natalie, Nichole, Tiffanie and Chrystina became Girlicious. “The whole experience has been kind of like ‘The Twilight Zone,’ it’s been crazy,” explains Natalie, 19, a native of Diamond Bar, CA, a small city about 30 miles east of Los Angeles. She’s sitting on a couch in a posh Santa Monica, CA, studio and rehearsal space across the street from their new label, Geffen Records. It’s where Girlicious have spent practically every moment of their waking lives since the show finished taping in July ’07. In the months that followed, the girls were kept, literally, under lock and key. Only their parents knew they won, and some of their friends didn’t even know they were on the show until it started airing the following February. “One day I was this girl doing my own thing, having a boyfriend, doing whatever I wanted during the day, taking my dance classes, and then I go to this audition and I’m plucked out of my life like I was in ‘The Bourne Identity” and my name didn’t exist anymore. It sounds obvious to say, but my whole life has changed so much…” With that, all four girls agree. But as fans who watched the show know, they didn’t always agree. From day one in the studio loft, cliques were formed and there was more than a healthy share of cattiness to go around. In fact, the most volatile moments occurred between the four girls that would eventually be crowned Girlicious. Natalie and Chrystina formed an immediate bond and an intense rivalry with Tiffanie and Nichole, and it took more than the girls winning the competition to make it subside. “No, we don’t hate each other anymore,” Los Angeles native Tiffanie, 19, laughs, crunched between Natalie and Nichole on the couch and paying as much attention to their hair as she does the conversation at hand. “When we first got picked for the group, it was definitely like it was two-on-two, because we really didn’t like each other in the house. But it’s all good now…” “We’re pretty-much like family now, we’re like sisters,” continues Nichole, also 19, but hailing from Houston, TX, the only non-Southern Californian in Girlicious. “We really love each other, and we really have a natural chemistry together. When we’re onstage and performing, you can tell that we really came together.” “It would have been weird if the label just threw us together and said, ‘Okay, go be a group,’ and we didn’t know each other,” adds Natalie, “but because we got to know each other in the house, the good and the bad, we already had an idea of how we’d work out. It’s exciting to know that we all