These Celebrities Were All Cheerleaders Before Making It Big

Brooke Shields

Brooke Shields is famously one of the world's most beautiful women. Whether she was posing for the camera or acting in Emmeline in the 1980s The Blue Lagoon, she did it all with a smile. That career-defining grin was one she learned from her spirited cheer squad at her private high school in New Jersey.

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The More You Know

  • When Lady Gaga went to NYU, a group of students started a "Stefani Germanotta, you will never be famous" Facebook group.
  • Before she was a megastar, Madonna worked at Dunkin Donuts. She got fired for squirting jelly on a customer.
  • Michael J. Fox's middle name doesn't start with a "J." His middle name is actually Andrew.
  • As a child, Jim Carrey wore tap shoes to bed just in case his parents needed cheering up in the middle of the night.
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