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(#45) Beyoncé Knowles
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Beyonce's mother Tina owned a beauty salon when the former Destiny's Child was growing up. Queen Bey would sweep up the cut hair on the floors to make a living, while switching back and forth to receptionist. Coincidentally, her co-diva Mariah Carey also got her start sweeping up locks in a beauty salon!
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(#7) Whoopi Goldberg
- 63
Whoopi Goldberg was a trained beautician before she became a huge comedy star and Oscar winner. At one point, she took a job as a makeup artist at a mortuary. Her boss actually acclimated her to the creepy setting by hiding in a drawer usually occupied by corpses, slowly opening it, then waving to his employee. Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
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(#23) Tina Turner
- 79
Before she was one hot mama, Tina Turner was taking care of hot mamas. While juggling her singing career, Turner became a nurse's aid in a maternity ward in St. Louis. During the day she helped with the moms and babies, and at night, she played the clubs, shaking her legs.
Source: Nurse Appreciation
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(#28) Jennifer Aniston
- 50
Before Friends, Jennifer Aniston paid her bills by selling timeshares to people in the Pocono Mountains (in Pennsylvania). "I was awful," Aniston says about her phone hocking skills, adding that she'd feel so guilty that she'd frequently hang up on customers.
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(#4) Johnny Depp
- 55
Back in the day, the superstar pushed ballpoint pens on the phone. The trick, according to Depp, was promising someone a big prize like a trip to Tahiti if they bought a handful of pens. However, Depp's guilt led him him to abandon the job, though he credits the gig as his first insight into acting.
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(#1) Danny DeVito
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Though DeVito may not be known for his own hair (or lack thereof), the tiny actor worked as a hairstylist one summer. Though he loved the perks of the job (the girls), when he started working at a local mortuary styling the hair of dead people, it got a little creepy for him, though he still would only work on women.
Source: The Guardian, AOL TV
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Most people in the world are obsessed with celebrity gossip and follow their private lives and work through paparazzi cameras, gossip magazines and social media. But many celebrities were ordinary people like us before they became famous, not all the famous people were born with fame and wealth, although it is hard to believe that our favorite celebrities used to be baristas, retail employees or restaurant waiters.
Nobody's first job will be what they want to do in the entire lives, except for a very, very lucky few people. The random tool lists 46 stars who had weird jobs to make ends meet before they became famous.
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