Crazy in Love : Eyebrows were raised when Whitney fell for one of music's biggest bad boys, Bobby Brown, after meeting him at the 1989 Soul Train Music Awards. "When you love, you love," Houston told Rolling Stone in 1993. "I mean, do you stop loving somebody because you have different images?... I am not always in a sequined gown. I am nobody's angel. I can get down and dirty." Shortly before her 29th birthday in 1992, Whitney married Bobby in a lavish New Jersey wedding, attended by everyone from Patti LaBelle to Donald Trump. Whitney's daughter Bobbi Kristina, her "greatest inspiration," was born in 1993. Here, the family was pictured at Bobby Brown's 25th birthday party in N.Y.C. on Feb. 4, 1994.

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