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2 janv. 2024 · Jan. 2, 2024 12:32 PM PT. Backstreet Boys member AJ McLean and his wife Rochelle have announced an end to their 12-year marriage. The couple had previously announced they had separated to work...
1 janv. 2024 · Backstreet Boys singer AJ McLean and his wife are ending their marriage after "temporarily" separating last year, the couple announced Jan. 1. "As you all know we have been separated for over a...
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2 janv. 2024 · Published on January 1, 2024 08:57PM EST. AJ McLean and his wife Rochelle DeAnna McLean are calling it quits. The Backstreet Boys singer and his spouse announced on Instagram that their...
1 janv. 2024 · Updated on: January 1, 2024. 9. Broadimage/Shutterstock ; FayesVision/WENN.com Newscom ; Karl Larsen/INFphoto.com. AJ McLean and Rochelle McLean have always put their marriage first — even...
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Rochelle Deanna McLean (nee Karidis, born October 7, 1981) is a make-up artist, hairstylist, dancer, and model. She is most well known as the former wife of Backstreet Boys A.J. McLean. She has often been credited with helping the pop star overcome his drug addiction.
McLean was born on October 7th, 1981, in Phoenix, Arizona, to and Perry Karidis Sr. She is of Mexican, Greek, and Italian ancestry. She has two brothers, Perry Jr. and Andre, and a younger sister, Priscilla. Her family moved to Santa Clarita, California, when she was 8, but both her parents had an abusive and volatile marriage fueled with anger.
Early career
As a child, she developed a rare bad self-image, resulting in eating disorders with her mother and insecurities. Despite having many longtime friends, she was also a victim of bullying since she was 5-6 in 1st grade. She was thick but had a healthy figure, though, body-shamed for her weight, had a crank call of winning lipo and a nose job in 7th grade, which she would never do, and even had her Madonna-style pants ruined in high school. Raised in Phoenix for eight years and later in Santa Clarita, she discovered her love for performing and started to pursue a career in modeling, dancing, and print work. When she was between 2-4, McLean began to focus on her love for dance, and again at 15, working and training hard to catch up, so her mother signed her up for dance lessons every day for two hours. She took ballet, jazz, hip-hop, rhythm hip-hop, contemporary, salsa, merengue, and gymnastics. Her mother then got her into modeling for a few years, doing print and runways. She tried auditions for talent agencies and dance companies, but the poor thing was too shy, and her brother and sister were signed in. In addition to modeling, she was a serious dance student, learning everything from jazz to ballet to hip hop. She had the best style when she attended and graduated from Canyon High School (1996-2000). She even participated in college to please her dad at community college, but she only dropped out after a semester for six months due to her terrible grades. As for her love of music, such as Boybands like *NSYNC and NKOTB, one of her earliest encounters with her future husband was at the Into the Millennium Tour in Las Vegas in 1999.
Hair and Makeup
Aside from modeling, Karidis decided to try cosmetology, so she did makeup at 24, from prosthetics to special effects, and attended Paul Mitchell the School in Sherman Oaks at 27. When she and her then-boyfriend now-husband met and started dating in 2009, they began working together when she became their hair and makeup artist for two projects: NKOTBSB behind the scenes and Straight Through My Heart. She's credited in the liner notes for This is Us under her maiden name.
TV and Film appearances
She has worked as a stylist for several television shows, including Project Hollywood and Nick's Big Show. She was a wardrobe assistant at Playmate Tiffany Fallon’s 2005 Playboy Video Center: Playmate of the Year and the makeup artist for the 2008 short film Population Suicide and Family Jewels the following year. With all her experience modeling for the camera, Rochelle never thought of working in front because she was camera-shy. Alongside the other wives and their husbands, Karidis and her husband appeared in I Heart Nick Carter, where she was a bridesmaid, and their daughter was a flower girl. She would later appear in three music videos, God, Your Mama and Me in 2017, No Place in 2019, and her husband's Boy and a Man in 2019. On November 30, 2022, Karidis, her husband, and their two daughters, along with the rest of the Backstreet families, were part of the filming in Los Angeles for the Boys' holiday special "A Very Backstreet Holiday" that was scheduled to air for December 14, 2022.
At 17 years old, Karidis went to the Backstreet Boys's Into the Millennium Tour in Las Vegas in 1999, where she spotted her future husband but met him In October 2001 at Choreographer's Carnival two years later, where she was a Halloween dancer.
Growing up in an entertainment family, Karidis's father and brother knew about him before she did because they worked on their music videos "Show Me the Meaning Of Being Lonely" and "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" before that and then five years later, in November 2006 while working as a Hollywood waitress and a bartender at Saddleback Ranch, the two meet again when AJ asked her out but, instead of winning her over right then and there, she flatly rejected and "dissed" him after "figuring out" who he was and chose to go have fun with her friends instead, resulting in him in dating a crazy co-worker of hers until 2007 when she finally gave him a chance and eventually started went out on March 22, 2009.
On January 9, 2010, for his birthday after ten months of dating, McLean proposed to Karidis at a club in Las Vegas. He states that the night he proposed was done on impulse. He bought an engagement ring from a jeweler in the same building as the club. The couple married on December 17, 2011, at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. The rest of the Backstreet Boys, Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, and Kevin Richardson, were in attendance. They have two children together. On April 29, 2012, during a show with NKOTBSB in London, England, broadcast in cinemas around Europe and online worldwide, he announced that he would be a father. A video on his YouTube page was posted where he and Rochelle announced the pregnancy. Around June 2012, AJ announced they would have a baby girl in November. On November 27, 2012, their daughter, Ava Jaymes McLean, was born at 4:51 a.m. PST in Los Angeles, CA. She’s been dubbed the first Backstreet Girl. Brian, Kevin, Howie, and Nick had sons until Nick's daughter was born. On September 5, 2016, McLean announced on Instagram that his wife was pregnant with their second child, and they were having another girl due in the Spring of March 2017, which he mentioned Several weeks later at an event. On March 19, 2017, the couple's second child, Lyric Dean, was born in Los Angeles. On March 27, 2023, the pair temporarily separated to work on themselves and their marriage to build a stronger future. They have been communicating and getting along well through therapy, so McLean's now busy focusing on his family and health journey. Sadly, on New Year's Day 2024, after 12 years of marriage, the couple decided to divorce after temporarily separating nine months prior but focused on moving forward with friendship and co-parenting their daughters.
In July 2022, during the DNA Tour, Karidis recently lost her grandmother and had to fly home to be with her family.
•Her Tattoos are rose sleeves, a star on her right hip, and two hummingbirds below her stomach
•She hates snakes, lizards, moths, grasshoppers, ants, rats, loud parrots, badgers, smelly skunks, raccoons, and chickens
•Favorite Color: Red and black
•Favorite Food: Mexican
•Favorite drink: Water
•Favorite animal: whales
1 janv. 2024 · The Backstreet Boys singer and his wife announced their decision to officially end their relationship on Instagram. They had previously separated and hoped to reconcile, but decided to focus on friendship and co-parenting their daughters.
2 janv. 2024 · Backstreet Boys member AJ McLean and wife Rochelle DeAnna McLean announced on Monday (Jan. 1) that they have decided to end their 12-year marriage. The couple, who separated a year ago,...
