Celebs That Rose To Superstardom After Stripping — Pics

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September 22, 2017 5:16PM EDT

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A-List Celebs That Rose To Superstardom After Stripping

A-List Celebs That Rose To Superstardom After Stripping — Amber Rose kept it real with her fans about her time as an exotic dancer named Paris. “When I was stripping it was the best time of my life,” she told listeners on her online radio show LoveLine in 2016. “Look at every single face in there as dollar signs. Go in there, make your money, go home, pay your bills.”

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A-List Celebs That Rose To Superstardom After Stripping

A-List Celebs That Rose To Superstardom After Stripping — Blac Chyna previously revealed that she dropped out of college to strip and model full-time. Her mother, Tokyo Toni, was fine with her decision. “My mom used to be a stripper,” Chyna told Elle in 2016,”so she was like, ‘If this is what you want to do, be the best at it.'”

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A-List Celebs That Rose To Superstardom After Stripping

A-List Celebs That Rose To Superstardom After Stripping — Channing Tatum put on a show for the ladies before becoming a superstar. “I don’t miss anything about stripping,” he told PEOPLE in 2017. “I stripped in Tampa for like 25 girls, at best. It wasn’t glamorous whatsoever, so there’s nothing that I miss about stripping.”

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A-List Celebs That Rose To Superstardom After Stripping

A-List Celebs That Rose To Superstardom After Stripping — Cardi B wasn’t always a chart-topping rapper. The former ‘L&HH’ star opened up about her stint as an ex-stripper. “Thoughts of your parents pop up in your head and it’s like, ‘Yo, this is so disgusting.’ And I hid it for like two years from my family, from everybody,” she told The Fader. “I told them I was babysitting for some real rich white people.”

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A-List Celebs That Rose To Superstardom After Stripping

A-List Celebs That Rose To Superstardom After Stripping — Long before becomming a fan-favorite on ‘Love & Hip Hop,’ Joseline Hernandez worked as a stripper, according to her VH1 bio. She’s since started the Puerto Rican Princess Foundation. “You don’t just have to go straight to the strip club and just take your clothes off,” she told HL EXCLUSIVELY.

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A-List Celebs That Rose To Superstardom After Stripping

A-List Celebs That Rose To Superstardom After Stripping — Courtney Love spilled the tea on her wild past, revealing that she used to strip to help fund her band back in the day. “300 bucks in a day was fine. I was able to do the kind of stripper economy which is … for every $5 I made, I would give Eric Erlandson three of them and that’s how we bought our van and we bought our backline,” she told LA Weekly in 2013.

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A-List Celebs That Rose To Superstardom After Stripping

A-List Celebs That Rose To Superstardom After Stripping — Lady Gaga wasn’t afraid to dish her secrets. The singer was reportedly a burlesque dancer when she was 19 and living on the Lower East Side trying to make it as a singer. She previously claimed to only strip down to her bikini “and boobies sometimes.”

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A-List Celebs That Rose To Superstardom After Stripping

A-List Celebs That Rose To Superstardom After Stripping — Dita Von Tease’s career is like no other! The star revealed how she created her image to MiamiNewTimes. “I did my research and learned most of the pin-up girls were burlesque dancers. From there, I started working in a strip club in the early ’90s because I wanted to emulate burlesque.”

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