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Entertainment November 21, 2016
Have you ever looked at your favorite musician, author or actress and wondered, “How did she make it?” How did Nicki Minaj learn how to rock the YouTube charts, Noah Cyrus follow in her famous family’s footsteps and Michelle Keegan dominate the TV screen in “Our Girls”?
If you’ve ever wondered how these ladies became #WomenThatDo, ENTITY is here to shed a little light on their interesting histories. Here are 11 surprising jobs women had before they became famous.
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Before she became a chef, Julia Child worked for the Office of Strategic Services, which later became the CIA. She developed shark repellent and worked in Ceylon and China during World War II. When her husband, a fellow OSS officer, got a job in France, her love affair with French cuisine began.
The talk show host and voice of Dory (of “Finding Nemo” and “Finding Dory”) brightened the fishing ports and living rooms in her native New Orleans by preparing seafood and selling vacuum cleaners.
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Nellie Bly’s desire to become a famous journalist drove her crazy – literally. She convinced doctors to diagnose her as mentally ill in order to expose the miserable conditions of mental institutions in the late 1800s. Her reports inspired a national movement of mental institution reform.
Before she become a well-respected Prime Minister of Britain in the 1980s, Thatcher was a research chemist, working to make lighter, fluffier ice cream. So yes, the Iron Lady’s first love was ice cream.
J.K. Rowling’s “rags to riches” story includes a stint teaching English in Portugal, where she met her first husband. The fallout from those experiences spurred her to write the legendary “Harry Potter” series.
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Looking pale? Call Whoopi Goldberg. She worked as mortuary beautician, making deceased people look like more than ghosts of their former selves for their funerals.
Harper Lee worked as a ticket agent in New York City while pursuing her dream to become a writer. Although she didn’t save enough money to quit, her friend Michael Martin Brown, a Broadway composer, wrote her a check that gave her a year to write whatever she wanted – namely, “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
Aniston had plenty of time to work on her charm before becoming an actress, producer and philanthropist. Though her career selling timeshares didn’t take off, it helped her get by until she eventually found fame in “Friends.”
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Though little-known in America, this British author was a civil service author, portrait painter and sculptor before she wrote the six-volume historical romance “The Lymond Chronicles” and the eight-volume “House of Niccolo” series. All in a day’s work for Dorothy.
Hildegard may be the world’s most productive inmate; this 12th century woman began her life as an anchoress, locked in a room with a single window, where people would come to ask for advice and guidance. She went on to found new convents and write philosophical treatises, plays, music and accounts of her religious visions.
Perhaps the only thing better than meeting your favorite actress in real life would be to say you received a massage from her … and in the case of Nicole Kidman, some women and men can say just that. At the age of 17, Kidman worked as a massage therapist to help support her family. In fact, when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, Kidman even dropped out of school. Looking back, she said, “I find trying to solve problems and saving lives far more important than my film career.”
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If you’re frustrated that you’re not yet the career woman of your dreams, give yourself a break and think of these eleven women. Your job today probably won’t last forever – and who knows what inspiring adventure you’ll go on next.
