There are many things about the early personal lives of famous celebrities that you may not know. For instance, there are quite a number who made their cheerleading squad in school and starting the road to performing in the limelight as a cheerleader. Here are 12 such celebrities who started out as cheerleaders.
When Paula Abdul was 18, she studied broadcasting in Cal Northridge. She went on to become a Los Angeles Laker girl and within a year was made the head of the choreography. She was soon noticed by Janet Jackson as well as the Jacksons having become popular for her keyboard scene with Tom Hanks in “Big”. Since then Paula has never looked back going on to be a judge on reality shows like American Idol, the X-factor and So You Think You Can Dance.
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Halle Berry was a cheerleader at her school in Cleveland, Bedford High. She was also a prom queen and the winner of several beauty pageants like Miss Teen All American in 1985 and first runner-up of Miss USA. Her career in acting won her an Oscar in the best actress category for Monsters Ball making her the first African American woman to do so.
Sandra Bullock also started out as a cheerleader in school and soon went on to theater productions in Washington-Lee high school in Virginia. Bullock earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Drama from East Carolina University in 1987 and went o to work as a cocktail waitress till in 1994 she got a major break in the movie “speed” alongside Keanu Reeves. She has won a golden globe, the Screen Actors Guild Award, Broadcast Film Critics Association Award and the Oscar for her portrayal of Lee Ann Tuohy in the Blind Side.
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As the daughter of singer Billy ray Cyrus, performing has always been in Miley Cyrus’ blood. She was a cheerleader for the Tennessee Premier Soccer team in Franklin. It was the play Mama Mia that inspired her to pursue acting and landed the role of Disney’s Hannah Montana in 2006. The rest is history.
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Born into a Cuban family, Cameron Diaz first entered the limelight as a cheerleader at Long Beach Poly High School. She started modeling for Calvin Klein when she was 16 and soon made it big modeling for a number of brands till she debuted alongside Jim Carrey in “the Mask”. Since then Diaz has a number of films to her credit wherein 2013, the Hollywood reporter declared her the highest paid actress over 40.
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Among celebrities who started as cheerleaders, Kirsten Dunst became a Ford model at the age of 3 and appeared in more than a 100 TV commercials. When she was 10 she appeared alongside Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise in Interview with the Vampire going on to act in movies like Jumanji and also ER where she was taught driving by George Clooney. During her child career, she was also a cheerleader for Laurel Hall School and Notre Dame High School.
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Fergie was a straight A student and a Spelling Bee champion. She was a cheerleader at Glen .A. Wilson High School and studied dance after leaving. Her early showbiz days saw her doing voiceovers and acting stints for various cartoon and TV shows. Although her first band Wild Orchid started in 1990 fizzled out, Fergie hit it big with the Black Eyed Peas in 2003 when Will.I.Am invited her to try for a song “Shut Up”. She soon became the groups lead singer finding success with the group and also on solo gigs.
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Megan Fox received a strict family upbringing and was a member of the cheerleading squad at Morningside Academy in Port St Lucie. In 2004 she starred opposite Lindsay Lohan in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen but got a major break when she was chosen for Transformers in 2007. Since then she has done a number of roles like Jennifer’s body and teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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Lindsay Lohan was a child star from the age of 3 modeling for brands like Calvin Klein, Wendy’s and Abercrombie. She has had two successes in her early years being The Parent Trap and Freaky Friday in 2003. At the same time Lohan was also in the cheerleading squad of her school Cold Spring Harbor High School and then again Sanford H Calhoun high school before leaving to be homeschooled.
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Desperate Housewives star, Eva Longoria was a cheerleader for the Roy Miller High School in Corpus Christi, Texas. She also went on to be a cheerleader for Texas A & M Kingsville where she graduated in Kinesiology. After winning the Miss Corpus Christi pageant, she was signed on by a theater agent which effectively launched her career into television the first being In a Day produced by Gary Ghiaey.
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Madonna was known for her cheerleading antics at school and became a member of the cheerleading squad at Rochester Adams High School. Although she was an unpredictable child, she was also known for being a straight-A student. She dropped out of a dance scholarship at University of Michigan and moved to New York City in 1978 where she embarked on a singing career that launched her into a pop icon with her first hits being Borderline and Lucky Star.
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As one of the celebrities who started out as cheerleaders, Denise Richards was an athletic student in Illinois where she grew up. She was the only girl on her baseball team and was a cheerleader at El Camino High School. Throughout the nineties, she accepted small roles but ultimately got big breaks in movies like Starship Troopers in 1997 and Wild Things in 1999. She was also a Bond Girl in The World Is Not Enough. She met Charlie Sheen her former husband on the sets of Loaded Weapon.
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