Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi Celebrity Profile

Polizzi was born in Santiago, Chile. She was adopted when she was six months old and was raised by Italian American parents, her father a volunteer firefighter and auto-salvage supervisor and her mother an office manager. Polizzi received her nickname, Snooki, in middle school when her friends named her after "Snookie", a male character in Save the Last Dance, because she was the first of her friends to kiss a boy. She grew up and attended school in Marlboro, New York, where she was a cheerleader.