10 Unusual Celebrity Jobs They’ve Had in the Past

It often seems to us that the stars (Hollywood actors, world-famous singers, supermodels, etc.) have always been like this – beautiful, cool and charismatic. Like, they were literally “born with a golden spoon in their mouth”, how could they not become so rich and famous?

It’s just us – ordinary people, sometimes we have to work in places that we don’t even want to remember later (and even more so to tell someone about it).

But no! A lot of future stars in their youth were just as restless, penniless and took on any job to feed themselves (and maybe save up something for acting classes).

And here are 10 eloquent examples of the fact that even today’s “celestials” life was once not sugar:

10 Whoopi Goldberg is a makeup artist at a funeral parlour.

The future “queen of comedy” (actually, Goldberg’s real name is Caryn Elaine Johnson) due to dyslexia was never able to graduate from school, where she performed in a children’s theater, showing the first signs of acting talent.

After running away from home, Karin lived for several years in a hippie commune and was heavily addicted to drugs. Her future husband, Alvin Martin, pulled her out of this hopeless swamp.

But before Whoopi got her first role in the theater in San Diego, she had already worked as a night watchman, and then as a bricklayer and even a make-up artist in a funeral agency (she put the dead in order before the funeral).

9. Ashton Kutcher – corn flake sweeper

And the handsome Ashton Kutcher, well known for his roles in such films as “The Butterfly Effect”, “More Than Love”, “More Than Sex”, “Womanizer”, “Jobs: Empire of Seduction”, etc. (Oh, yes! And also – as the ex-husband of actress Demi Moore!) At one time, he learned quite well how to handle a broom.

The fact is that before becoming an actor, Ashton worked part-time at General Mills, one of the largest food companies in the United States.

More specifically, he cleaned up the garbage left over from making corn flakes. And donated blood for money.

8. Miley Cyrus – lingerie picker

Miley is the daughter of a very famous US country singer Billy Ray Cyrus. And as a teenager, she had a very unusual (if not more frankly …) “profession”.

Daddy paid her $10 after each of his concerts for the fact that she collected from the stage and in the hall bras, panties and the like, which excited fans threw at Billy Ray during his performances.

Hmm … To put it bluntly, a very dubious pleasure.

7. Emma Stone – dog bakery worker

At 30, Emma Stone is one of the highest paid actresses in the world, as well as a Golden Globe, BAFTA and Oscar winner for her role as Mia Dolan in La La Land (2017). The media unanimously admire her as one of the most talented actresses of this generation.

And exactly “half a lifetime” ago (at the age of 15), Stone, for sure, did not dream of such success. Then she worked part-time in a bakery, and not in an ordinary one – a human one, but a dog one. Emma baked various “sweets” for four-legged pets.

6. Cindy Crawford – corn picker

Here’s a typical Cinderella story for you. The future world-famous supermodel Cindy Crawford, her former “profession” just helped to find her way in life.

A girl from the most ordinary family (from the town of DeKalb, Illinois) at the age of 16 worked in a cornfield. There she was photographed by a local reporter.

And this very photograph, having collected a considerable number of flattering comments about the young Cindy captured on it, led the girl to the idea of ​​​​a career as a fashion model. As Crawford herself later joked: “They found me in corn!”

5. Quentin Tarantino is a ticket attendant at a porn cinema

Who hasn’t heard of the iconic director Tarantino today? But his career was preceded by once very strange activities.

So, leaving school at the age of 15 (she was with a Christian bias, which young Quentin terribly did not like), he promised his mother that he would find a job. And he found it – he became an usher in a cinema (but, of course, he did not tell his parent that this was a porn cinema).

Later, he got a job at a video store in Manhattan, where he enjoyed discussing films with colleagues and recommending them to clients. By the way, Tarantino still considers this his best work until the moment he became a director.

4. Chris Hemsworth – milk pump cleaner

What image do you vividly imagine when it comes to Chris Hemsworth? Of course, the brutal (and beautifully blond) strongman Thor with a huge hammer in his hand.

So in his youth, Chris had to deal with completely different subjects. He worked part-time in a mommy store: among other things, he had to manually wash breast pumps that were rented out to ladies.

Hemsworth still recalls this work with a shudder, calling it the worst thing that ever happened to him in his life.

3. Matthew McConaughey – Armadillo Repeller

Matthew McConaughey, another of the main beauties of Hollywood, for a long time could not decide whether he should become a lawyer or still connect his life with cinema.

Before entering the specialty “Radio, television and cinema”, young Mat managed to work first on a chicken farm, and then, having got on an exchange for a year in Australia (in the town of Warnervale) – on a golf course.

There, his duties included tidying up the sandy ball traps at night, and at the same time driving armadillos from the field, who were very fond of pinching the juicy and neat grass on the lawns.

2. Orlando Bloom – shooting range worker

The future “most beautiful elf in Hollywood” and well-aimed archer Orlando Bloom played on stage while still at school. Well, from the age of 16, he already officially received roles in the performances of the National Youth Theater in London.

Nevertheless, in his early youth he sometimes had to earn extra money in other ways: for example, for some time he worked in a shooting club, where hunters shot at clay plates for training purposes. Orlando loaded these very plates into a special machine, from where they then flew into the air.

1. Bill Murray – Pizzeria Waiter

The most charming Bill Murray in his youth did not just work in some special, very interesting place or do something extraordinary – he was a waiter at Little Caesars (the third largest pizzeria in the United States).

But he still (being a real world star) recalls those times with nostalgia and calls Caesars his favorite work.

By his own admission, when he was very hungry, he sometimes ate raw dough there. And once Murray seriously advised his colleague in a pizzeria to participate in the Iron Chef culinary show – it was Kerry Simon, now one of America’s most famous chefs.

And by the way, Murray, when he has a snack in a cafe, likes to drag french fries from other people’s plates, saying “No one will believe you anyway!”