[Bella]

Stripping is a pretty honest way of earning money when you have to make your ends meet on the way to a bigger goal. Each of the celebrities listed below started their career by shaking it on stage and dancing till the clothes fell off.

Many stars are open about and proud of their stripper past. So, let's see those who started their careers by pole dancing in clubs

Celebrtities who once were strippers

Channing Tatum



Now an actor, Channing Tatum started his way to stardom in 90s working as a stripper in Florida. He danced under the name Chan Crawford for an all-dude revue called "Male Encounter".

Carmen Electra



Before making her small screen debut in Baywatch, Carmen Electra used what God gave her to make it rain singles. Now, years later, Electra has even released her own signature brand stripper pole.

Dita Von Teese



Dita Von Teese began working in a strip club at the age of 18. To make her perfromances unique and unforgettable Dita added spice to her routine with a big beehive hairdo paired with sexy stockings and gloves. She certainly became the center of attention, and wound up becoming a fetish model and burlesque star.

Lady GaGa



Lady Gaga is one of the most famous stripper-sturned-stars. “I was working in strip clubs when I was 18. My act was pretty wild. I’d wear black leather and dance to Black Sabbath, Guns N’ Roses and Faith No More. Very rock ’n’ roll. I don’t like to talk about it too much but there were drugs, serious drugs. I wouldn’t want to inspire other people to do the same,” Lady GaGa said. “I discovered a real personal freedom through it … I was drawing huge crowds, setting hairspray alight on stage and dancing madly … I have a strong sense of my own sexuality. I love the naked human body and I have huge body confidence.”

Rachel Sterling (Pussycat Dolls)



Former Pussycat Dolls singer Rachel started her career as a stripper and was later discovered as a singer/dancer.

octomom Nadya Suleman



Mother of 14 Nadya Suleman, aka octomom, once confessed she worked as a stripper, even if only for one night. She danced under the name Angelina (as if using her resemblance to Angelina Jolie).

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Celebrities with stripper past

Catherine Zeta-Jones



Catherine Zeta-Jones once was a stripper! She would strip for money before kicking off her acting career. She then confessed that all the money she'd earned a stripper she spent on rhinoplastic surgery and then quit stripping to focus on acting.

Amber Rose



Even her name sounds like a perfect name for a stripper... Before been discovered as a model Amber Rose had worked as a stripper in New York and Philadelphia

Anna Nicole Smith



Anna Nicole Smith worked as a stripper in Texas. Her career took off when she auditioned for Playboy and was chosen for a 1992 cover.

Brad Pitt



Brad Pitt stripped in college. At the University of Missouri, Brad was part of a nudey dance group called Dancing Bares. "When a girl from one of our sister sororities turned 21, the Bares - there were seven of them - would put her in a chair and come out butt-naked with pillowcases on their heads and do a choreographed dance for her. The girls would be laughing so hard. It was great!" Brad Pitt said.

Courtney Love



Courtney Love was a dancer when she was young and wasn't yet known as a rock singer

Javier Bardem



Javier Bardem was once a stripper, even if just for one day. He told Marie Claire: “It was a disaster. And you know who was there watching? My mum and my sister! It was kind of a thing—you go there and dance, they pay you some money. It wasn’t like a ‘Full Monty’ thing. I think I have a good relation with my family, thank God! We are very tight!”

Diablo Cody



Screenwriter Diablo Cody (Juno and Jennifer's Body) spent a year working as a stripper. She was over her job as a secretary, and so entered an amateur stripping competition. "I'm a textbook adrenaline junkie," she said. "I was at a place in my life where I felt underestimated. I just figured I would rather do something reckless than spend the rest of my life in a vanilla prison." She danced for a year and wrote a blog about her experiences, tahtwas later turned into a book Candy Girl: A Year In The Life Of An Unlikely Stripper.

Eve



Eve once worked as an exotic dancer. "Rappers talk about drug dealing before they made it and it's not a big thing, but me stripping is?" she told Rolling Stone. "Come on. That was a hustle, too; there's a song about it on my album, 'Heaven Only Knows.' But I don't regret it - I was 18 and confused, going through personal problems. I did it for about a month, and I was glad I did it. It helped me find Eve, helped me get serious. It was depressing - a lot of those girls have three or four kids. I'd sit there and be like, 'Eve, you don't belong here, this is not your world.'"

Tila Tequila



Well, I'm not surprised at all

Model, TV personality and new porn star Tila Tequila reportedly told King-Mag.com: "When I was 18 and still in high school, I was a stripper for a while, because I was trying to save up money to move to Hollywood to become this bisexual Hollywood starlet that I am today."

[Bella]

know more former celebrity strippers? feel free to share!

[Mary]

Channing Tatum's body is so sexy, so i'd not mind him doing striptease

[Veronica]

i hate it when celebs undress in public to get attention, don't they have anything else to show?