You Won't Believe Where These Celebs Worked Before They Were Famous

Long before Z starred in Shake It Up, she sold raffle tickets at the California Shakespeare Theater, where her mom worked. "I didn't really make any money, but it was fun," she told Teen Vogue.

Before she starred on Hannah Montana, Miley cleaned toilets — and she liked it! On the Tyra Banks Show, she revealed: "I had one normal job and I actually liked it. I worked at this place called Sparkles Cleaning Service and I cleaned houses, I was like 11… I can clean toilet bowls."

Tay grew up on a Christmas tree farm, which also happens to be where she worked her very first job. She told Esquire in 2014 that she picked praying-mantis pods off of Christmas trees to make sure they didn't hatch in people's houses.

Kanye actually worked in fashion before designing Yeezys — when the rapper was in high school, he was a sales associate at the Gap. He told Paper, "I don't think I had any desire to actually make clothes, but I always felt like that's what I wanted to be around."

Before she built her empire, Kim ran an eBay business under the username "kimsaprincess." She cleaned out celebrities' closets and then sold their items online. Her clients included Cindy Crawford, Serena Williams, Nicky Hilton, and Nicole Richie.

In 2014, the Daily Mail reported that Brooklyn started working at a West London coffee shop. Mind you, this was before his photography career really took off.

Nicki Minaj once worked as a waitress at a Red Lobster but was fired after she confronted a couple who had taken her pen. "I like dealing with people, but I don’t really like a lot of bullshit, so maybe customer service wasn’t the best job for me," she told GQ.

For three years, Rachel McAdams worked at McDonald's. "It was a great place to work, but I had a little bit of an OCD thing with hand washing and just didn't have time," she told Glamour. "I was not a great employee; I broke the orange juice machine one day."

Before taking on the role of Cheryl Blossom on Riverdale, Madelaine worked three different jobs. She opened a coffee shop in the morning, assisted a photographer, and hosted at a Beverly Hills restaurant. On top of all of that, she auditioned for roles.

At 15, Lily was a budding journalist. "I started writing for magazines in England," she told Harper’s Bazaar Singapore of her first job.

"My first job was as a cashier at Menards, which is a store similar to Home Depot," the MTV host told Seventeen.

Jane By Design star India de Beaufort lathered up working as a shampoo girl at a hair salon before her acting career took off.