Born in Des Moines, Iowa, her family had moved to Atlanta, Georgia, when she was around 9 years of age. Her folks got separated from when she was only 3.

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Her center name, Tenese, is the Chickasaw Native American variant of Tennessee, a gesture to her legacy.

As both her folks were performers/vocalists, she had envisioned from adolescence that she would seek after a profession in the music business.

In her adolescent years, she was a hair model and later turned into a manicurist and cleanser young lady at a boutique. In her leisure time, she used to work on moving at a skating arena.

She was determined to have sickle cell frailty in youth however had freely uncovered her condition just in 1996. Around 6 years after this, she was hospitalized for quite some time because of an eruption of the problem.

In November 1999, she distributed a book of semi-personal verse entitled Thoughts.

 

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In 2005, she and beautician Tara Brivic had opened a kids’ shop called Chase’s Closet (named after Tionne’s little girl). It must be closed down in 2008, notwithstanding, while Tionne was recuperating from her mind growth medical procedure.

In October 2009, she uncovered that she had covertly struggled a possibly deadly mind cancer since March 2006. It was a grape-sized acoustic neuroma on her vestibular nerve that had impacted her equilibrium, weight, hearing, sight, and facial development.

Because of the chance of experiencing dangerous confusions connected with her torment with sickle cell iron deficiency, numerous specialists were reluctant to do a medical procedure on her. She had at last gone through a medical procedure to eliminate the growth at the Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles.

 

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The activity was effective yet she had experienced a 3% loss of hearing in her right ear and loss of motion on the right half of her face. She had spent over 3 years in recovery post the medical procedure. Incompletely because of doctor’s visit expenses, she declared financial insolvency in February 2011 and afterward again in October 2011.

In January 2013, when she delivered her first performance track (named Champion) in over 15 years, she reported that the returns would go to noble cause that assist with bringing issues to light for individuals experiencing blood conditions. She has likewise filled in as a representative for the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America.

In 2017, she distributed a book named A Sick Life: TLC ‘n Me: Stories from On and Off the Stage.

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