34 Celebrities' First Jobs Before They Were Famous

Her life has been one filled with hits and milestones and, much like most young musicians today, her musical career began at age 14, when she began covering songs by other artists on YouTube.

Following her move back to London from Kosovo age of 15, she began working as a model.

In 2013, Lipa starred in a television advertisement for The X Factor.

Before he became the breakout crooner from One Direction or Gigi Hadid's 'Zaddy', Zayn Malik moonlighted as a boxer from the age of 15 to 17.

Before his musical career took off, Malik revealed in an interview with VMAN that he had planned to pursue a career as an English teacher.

The actress held numerous jobs alongside pursing acting including waitressing and teaching.

She revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that she was actually still a supply teacher across a few New York City public schools during the filming of the dance cult classic movie Save The Last Dance.

Jordan worked as a child model for several companies and brands, including Toys 'R' Us, before landing a small roles in Cosby and The Sopranos.

Gemma Chan was on track to become a lawyer after securing a prestigious placement at the firm Slaughter and May.

However, after some soul searching, Chan told The Guardian that 'I realise that what had initially attracted me to law was watching films that were courtroom dramas and barristers giving these amazing speeches.'

Although initially the decision to change course was 'difficult' for the actress to explain to her parents. It's clear the sacrifice is one that paid off.

It will probably come at no surprise to anyone, that Halle Berry was a wildly successful contestant in beauty pageants before she began setting the big screen a blaze.

She finished as the first runner-up in the Miss USA pageant and coming in sixth in the Miss World 1986.

It was not all smooth sailing to star down however as Berry revealed in an interview with People, that she was actually homeless in her first few weeks in New York and slept in a homeless shelter and then in a YMCA before making it in acting.

It was no secret throughout the filming of the hit show The X Factor that Harry Styles had a part-time job at the W Mandeville Bakery in Cheshire.

If the shop's Harry posters and banners plastered over it during his time on the ITV show were not enough proof, the star actually revisited the bakery in 2013, during the filming of the One Direction Documentary This is Us.

Victoria Beckham may be affectionately known as 'Posh Spice' but anyone who follows the designer on social media knows Posh loves a good laugh.

It's quite likely that her dry sense of humour is what lead to her take an interesting role in BBC sex education programme in 1986 called Body Matters - as a rollerskating sperm.

The internet may forget a multitude of things but BBC archives are 'viva forever'.

In an LinkedIn post in 2016, the former president revealed that his first job was a role miles away from The White House.

'My first summer job wasn’t exactly glamorous, but it taught me some valuable lessons,' the president wrote. 'Responsibility. Hard work. Balancing a job with friends, family, and school.'

The job in question - scooping ice cream at a Baskin-Robbins as a teenager in Hawaii- sounds like much more fun than Topshop in busy shopping centre roles of our youth but we hear you Obama.

Jennifer Lopez has always been a multi-talented hard working woman. From clerking in a law firm - a skill that came in handy helping friend Kim Kardashian West recently - to briefly working as a backup dancer for American recording artist Janet Jackson, J.LO has always had it going on.

In one of her pre-fame dance classes jobs the actress actually taught Kerry Washington! A fact made known by the Scandal Actress in a Tonight Starring Jimmy Fallon Interview.

Before she was on stage singing 'Look What You Made Me Do', Grammy Award-winning Taylor Swift was on a farm picking the praying mantis pods off trees. Yep, really. Taylor told Esquire that the only reason she had to do that was because she was too little to lift trees.

There's a reason why Meghan Markle's signature looks so, well, royal - and it's not just because she's a member of the royal family. Before she met Prince Harry and she appeared on Suits, Meghan was a calligrapher and even wrote the invitations for Paula Patton and Robin Thicke's wedding in 2005.

Before Beyoncé was Sasha Fierce or singing 'I'm A Survivor' with Kelly and Michelle, she was sweeping the floor in a hair salon. Between the ages of six and nine, Beyoncé worked in her mum's hairdressing shop. 'I would sing and put on little shows by myself for the women who wanted a hot press and curl and some good conversation,' she told Essence magazine.

Brad Pitt's first job in Hollywood put his acting skills to good use. Pitt worked at El Pollo Loco chicken restaurant where he had to dress as a chicken and try to get passersby to eat in the restaurant.

Oscar winning Nicole learned the art of massage to help with her mother's pains during her breast cancer treatment and she liked it so much she began doing it for other people too. 'I still love giving people massages,' she said in 2012.

One half of our favourite Golden Globes presenting duo Amy Poehler first started earning money as an ice cream scooper at her local parlour. She loved the job so much she wrote a whole piece on it for The New Yorker.

Before her rapping career took off, Cardi B worked full-time as a cashier at the Amish Market in NYC's Tribeca neighbourhood. Unfortunately, she was fired for giving her co-worker a big discount but her manager suggested she got a job at the strip club across the road because she had a 'nice body' and that was the beginning of her stripping career.

While Jennifer Aniston was promoting 'Horrible Bosses' she revealed that her worst job was as a bike messenger, aged 19. '[My lowest moment was] probably driving into a door that opened,' Aniston said.

Kanye might be head-to-toe in Yeezy now, but during his teenage years the rapper was a sales associate at Gap. 'It's funny that I worked at the Gap in high school, because in my past 15 years it seems like that's the place I stood in my creative path — to be the gap, the bridge,' Kanye told Paper in 2015.

You might be surprised to hear that Miley Cyrus had a job before she became Hannah Montana. Pre fame, Miley was a 'bra collector'. That's right, her dad Billy Rae paid her to pick up bras and underwear that were thrown on stage when he performed.