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Avril Lavigne: Life in pictures

Avril Lavigne

Early Avril

Avril Lavigne grew up in a Christian family in Canada, and got her start singing church songs. Yeah, the same Avril Lavigne known for spitting at paparazzi and flipping the bird in photographs.