Not everyone can start out in the acting, modeling or talk show industry without first breaking a little sweat.
From Howard Stern to Brad Pitt, most celebrities began their careers making a modest earning and doing menial tasks.
From Cindy Crawford ruining her manicures on corn to Amy Adams‘ skimpy uniform to downright embarrassing (see: Victoria Beckham, slide 8), these 15 celebrities know what it means to pay your dues.
Jon Hamm
Jon Hamm may play the suave and dapper Don Draper on “Mad Men” now but at one time, he was behind the scenes in a much different movie genre.
The actor worked as a set dresser for adult films.
“You gotta move cameras around, and ashtrays. And continuity is apparently an issue,” Hamm explained to The Guardian of his duties, which the out-of-work actor took on, he says, to make ends meet until his current girlfriend Jennifer Westfeldt cast him in a play.
Cindy Crawford
She might be one of the “hottest women of all time” and may have been the sole reason millions of people switched from Coke to Pepsibut Cindy Crawford didn’t always have the most glamorous job.
While looking for extra cash as a college freshman in Illinois, the supermodel made a living as a corn-shucker at a local fair.
Hugh Jackman
Before Hugh Jackman was a Tony-award winning actor or known for playing Wolverine in the “X-Men” franchise, he worked as another kind of entertainer: a clown.
“I am really bad at magic. In fact, I used to be a clown at kid’s parties,” Jackman confessed to In The News. “I was Coco the Clown and I had no magic tricks and I remember a six-year-old standing up at a party saying ‘Mummy this clown is terrible, he doesn’t know any tricks’ and he was right.”
