evelyn stobaugh was born the heir to a musical fortune - it was only logical that she should aspire from an early age to achieve flamboyant popstardom. the daughter of max stobaugh, a multimedia mogul and affluent record producer, eve was spending time in recording studios before she could crawl and scrawling bars of music in technicolor crayola by preschool. an entertainer from day one, she delighted her stay at home mother, a former swimsuit model, with extravagant plays and impromptu musical performances in their living room after school. she was the center of attention in the stobaugh home and the apple of both of her parents eyes.

songwriting began in earnest while she was attending high school. she unashamedly utilized her father's industry connections to turn a hobby into a profitable career, ghostwriting for some of the most popular pop stars of the late 90s and early 00s. her skills grew with each contact but it wasn't until the early 2000s when she began writing for madilyne collins that she started becoming something of a celebrity herself. what started a simple exchange of songs blossomed into a close friendship that was well publicized in the tabloids. the two were inseparable, with eve even stepping in as backup singer on several of madilyne's tours. for several years eve enjoyed the paparazzi spotlight, but in early 2007, after some grainy, poorly lit security camera stills seemed to show the pair kissing in the vip booth of a crowded las vegas club the media exploded with rumors that the friends were much more than they appeared. despite growing up a paparazzi favorite, evelyn found herself in the middle of her first real scandal and timing couldn't have been worse.

she had spent the years prior focusing quietly on stepping out of the shadow of her more famous friends, anxious to shake off her reputation as a simple socialite in exchange for one as a legitimate artist. her father had, against her wishes, distributed one of her demos to several producers and she'd quietly signed a record deal and found herself begining work on her debut ep in the midst of an unexpected media circus. and evelyn, knowing that image was everything, immediately distanced herself from one of her oldest friend focusing instead on creating her new persona: lala, a new age performance artist with a flair for the dramatic. with the release of her debut single 'just dance' and a string of cryptic interviews intended to distance herself from the media mess she quickly fought her way to becoming a household name.

evelyn found herself something of a pop culture phenomenon and she struggled for the first few years to separate her persona from her real life - especially in early 2008 when, at the height of her initial popularity, she found herself pregnant. she and the father married quickly, both coming from traditional families that would have frowned on a baby born out of wedlock no matter how progressive they might have seemed in the press. at first evelyn rejected motherhood, allowing nannies and hired help to care for her daughter while she focused on touring and recording but as time went on she began to find that her favorite job was as a mother. her daughter grounded her, kept her from spiralling too far out of control. in 2010 she had her second child, a son, just as her marriage began to fall apart.

the divorce was public and ugly. their split came in the midst of intense media speculation around a rumored affair between eve and her 'judas' co-star, ct kastle. though she never directly addressed the accusations of infidelity, evelyn and her ex sunk to using the tabloids to sling mud at one another, both wanting to 'win' the end of the relationship. despite sharing two children things are still tense between them and they both still frequently drop each others name in interviews. but evelyn is finally independent, happy and ready to dedicate her life to her craft and her children and nothing else seems to matter.