Celebrities Who Used to Be Strippers

Publish date: 2024-05-04

Amber Rose has spoken positively about her time as an exotic dancer and called out double standards.

She was born in Philadelphia. Kevork Djansezian/Stringer/Getty Images

Rose tried stripping at 15 years old, but stopped and revisited the job when she was 18. Speaking to Cosmopolitan in 2015, she proudly stated that stripping "was the best time of my life."

"I had so much fun," she said. "I really did. All the girls were really cool. The guys weren't allowed to touch you. I was never sexually assaulted or [anything]. I was young, beautiful, I was onstage, I wasn't really ashamed of my body. I made lifelong friends."

In a 2016 interview with Cosmopolitan South Africa, Rose compared the ways she and Tatum are viewed. Like Tatum, Rose started out as a stripper, then moved on to modeling and acting. 

According to Rose, if she were to make a movie like "Magic Mike" about being a stripper, people would probably call her "disgusting." 

"It's so ridiculous," she said. "We've had the same life, [Tatum] and I, and I'm dumbed down for it. It's not his fault – it's just society."  

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