Consider the divorce settlement between one-time pop tartlet Britney Spears and her ex Kevin Federline, a backup dancer.

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Pop diva Jennifer Lopez and backup dancer Chris Judd managed to make it to only the eight-month mark before calling it quits.

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Just look at JLo she went from back up dancing, to acting, to singing, to talent judging to dating a backup dancer talk about life going full circle.

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That may have partly contributed to the demise of Britney Spears' ill-fated union with backup dancer Kevin Federline. (She was 22 and he was 26 when they wed.) Spears tried to bolster Federline's nascent music career when she helped finance and even appeared on her husband's doomed debut album, Playing With Fire, released last year to dismal reviews.

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