16 Facts About Kitten Natividad

Francesca Isabel Natividad, known professionally as Kitten Natividad, was a Mexican-American film actress and exotic dancer.

Kitten Natividad was noted for her 44-inch bust, and appearances in cult films made by her ex-partner, director Russ Meyer.

Kitten Natividad did not speak English until she was 10 years old.

Kitten Natividad attended Ysleta High School in El Paso, where she was her senior class president.

Kitten Natividad left her husband for Meyer during the filming, and they lived together as a couple for most of the next 15 years.

Kitten Natividad incorporated a giant champagne glass into her act, similar to such as Lili St Cyr had used, accompanied by the Bobby Darin hit "Splish Splash".

Kitten Natividad appeared as a guest on The Dating Game, one of a number of game shows that Chuck Barris produced.

Kitten Natividad has had backlash from burlesque performers because she did hardcore videos.

Kitten Natividad founded the private photo and video studio called "The Kitten Klub".

Kitten Natividad famously appeared as a stripper at the bachelor party held by Sean Penn to celebrate his 1985 marriage to Madonna, having portrayed a stripper the year before in The Wild Life, a movie starring Sean's brother Christopher.

In October 1999, Kitten Natividad underwent double-mastectomy surgery for treatment of breast cancer.

Kitten Natividad subsequently underwent reconstructive surgery, bringing her breasts close to the size they were prior to the mastectomy.

Kitten Natividad appeared in the Adam Rifkin independent feature A Night at the Golden Eagle; according to her, Rifkin remembered recognizing her when their cars were both stopped at the same stoplight 25 years earlier.

Kitten Natividad died from kidney failure at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles on September 24,2022, aged 74.

Kitten Natividad was survived by her sister Eva, her mother, four nephews and a niece.

Kitten Natividad has appeared in more than 65 films and video productions.