Once upon a time, celebs lived the simple life.
They did things for themselves and even took on a string of odd jobs to make ends meet.
Here are 10+ celebs who worked normal jobs before they got famous. We've got everything from mascots to even strippers!
Even though she said that she wasn't a "great employee," the actress worked at McDonald's for three years!
"I had a little bit of an OCD thing with hand washing and just didn't have time," she told Glamour. "They were like, 'Hey, the drive-through's backing up. Stop washing your hands!'"
It's a good thing Nicki found her calling in rapping since she's not exactly cut out for normal jobs...
She was fired from four Red Lobsters. Four!
She would follow them to their car, bang on the windows, and even flip them off.
"I walked to the car, I banged on the car window, and I said, 'Give me my pen!'" she recalled. "My manager fired me on the spot."
The actress might never want to see another banana again after she spent grueling hours dressed up as a banana for a smoothie shop.
Yes, a banana.
Whoever decided to hide her gorgeous face is clearly nuts.
Megan wasn't the only celeb to don a mascot suit before she became famous.
Brad Pitt used to dress up as a chicken to promote El Pollo Loco in Los Angeles.
Picturing Queen Bey sweeping hair in her mother's salon is majorly difficult, but this was her reality for several years before making it big as a singer!
She talked about this in her HBO documentary, Life Is But a Dream.
Before he stole our hearts on Step Up, Tatum was a stripper.
The stripping even ended up helping his acting career since he was able to bring his skillz to the Magic Mike movies.
Prior to booking his big-time roles, the actor was making kids run laps as a gym teacher at a school in England!
He even once ran into one of his old students at a press event, as shown in this clip!
The Mad Men actor spent a lot of time on sets before he was one of the stars on one.
He did so as a set dresser for adult films.
"I said, 'I don't know how to do that.' She says, 'They'll hire anybody… It's for these Skinemax … movies.'"
Long before she was a royal and even an actress, Meghan Markle worked for Paper Source doing calligraphy.
She even got to do the wedding invitations for Paula Patton and Robin Thicke, who wed in 2005.
The singer worked at Dunkin' Donuts... for one day.
She worked there after dropping out of school and moving to New York in search of her big break.
Oops!
If that customer still has that dirty shirt, I'm sure they could make a few bucks on eBay!
This might be the oddest job of all.
In 2013, Miley told Rolling Stone that she used to go on tour with her father, Billy Ray, as a child.
Whenever fans threw their underwear or bras on the stage, he would pay Miley $10 to go and pick them up.
“I’d get a really big one and be like, ‘Dad! I found your biggest fan!'” she said.
