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Kristin Kay Richardson (née Willits), born August 4, 1970, is a former back-up dancer for Cher and an actress.

Richardson`s parents are John Willits, a chiropractor, and Susan Patton, car dealership. She has two siblings, Brad Willits and older sister Tina Heut.

Kristin graduated from Shawnee Mission Northwest High School in Shawnee, Kansas in 1988 where she was on the cheerleading squad, the Cougarettes Drill Team and was the co-captain of the gymnastics team. She also was on the staff for her school newspaper The Northwest Passage. Richardson first attended the University of Kansas for one semester before she transferred to Oklahoma City University to study dance. She graduated from Oklahoma City University in 1992 with a degree in Classical and Jazz Dance.

While in high school, Kristin worked at Worlds of Fun as a dancer and singer in the variety shows. She then worked at Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, Virginia, during the summers while she was in college. After that she worked on a Royal Odyssey cruise ship for a year.

She eventually moved to Orlando to work at Walt Disney World in the Beauty and the Beast attraction where she played Belle. That was where she met her future husband.

Kristin auditioned for and was accepted to spend a year as a Radio City Music Hall Rockette in New York. She toured with the Will Rogers Follies company across the United States and was on Broadway in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum with Nathan Lane, Whoopi Goldberg and David Alan Grier.

After her time on stage, Kristin made the transition to television acting on the Comedy Central show Viva Variety.

Willits was also one of three dancers in Cher`s Believe tour. You can see her in "All Or Nothing", Cher`s video clip which consists of different parts of Believe" tour.

Relationship

Kristin met Kevin Richardson in the early 90`s while they were both working at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.

"She was sitting’ down with some friends and, uh, a buddy of mine came up to me and said ‘You need to ‘introduce yourself to her’ so, evidently she’d been kinda checking’ me out so he kinda gave me the green light ‘cause I’m, I was a shy type a guy, can’t just go up and ask ladies out so I went and introduced myself and later on, a couple days later I asked her for her number and asked her if she was interested in going’ out."

Kevin recalls.

They began a relationship and dated on and off for about seven or eight years on the down low before they took their romance public. Their first appearance together was at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards premiered on September 9, 1999

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