12 Famous Celebrities Who Started Their Performing Careers as Cheerleaders

By Andrew Alpin, 16 October 2017

9Lindsay Lohan

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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10Eva Longoria

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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11Madonna

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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12Denise Richards

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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