These pop-culture icons took their skills from strip clubs and used them to make lots of money. They are now boasting wedding rings, fashion lines, wealthy husbands and reality TV shows. But their beginnings were humble and naked.

Blac Chyna

Blac Chyna once went by the stage name “Crème” and modeled for publications like Dimepiece Magazine and Urban Ink Magazine. While working as a stripper at King of Diamonds in Miami, Chyna appeared in then-fiancé Tyga’s music video “Rack City.” Today she’s the newest member of the Kardashian clan. And in May she announced that she’s expecting a baby with current fiancé Rob Kardashaian.
Amber Rose

She started stripping at the age of 15 under the name “Paris” in order to financially help out her family. At 19, she went on to work the pole at Sue’s Rendezvous in Mt. Vernon, NY, and got herself a gig as a video vixen in rapper Ludacris’ “What Them Girls Like.” In August 2015 – after failed relationships with hip-hop stars Kanye West and Wiz Khalifa – Rose, 32, launched her own line of sunglasses, hoodies, beanies and T-shirts.

NeNe Leakes

Leakes dropped out of school to become a stripper in order to make ends meet since she was a single mom. In 1996, she married real estate investor Gregg Leakes. Leakes, 48, went on to start her own production company called NeNe Leakes Entertainment in 2013, and then launched a fashion line, the NeNe Leakes Collection, on the Home Shopping Network. She has a growing résumé of television appearances on shows like “The Celebrity Apprentice,” “The New Normal,” “Glee” and “Dancing With the Stars,” as well as a stint on Broadway in “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella.” Now , Leakes can be seen on E! ‘s “Fashion Police.”

Dita Von Teese

Dita Von Teese is known for her ’40s Hollywood-pinup style and she earned her reputation performing burlesque in California. There she met rocker Marilyn Manson, whom she later married. Von Teese has since appeared on “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and “CSI.”

Eve

Eve first hit the rap scene in 1999 with “Let There Be Eve. . . Ruff Ryders’ First Lady. “But before she became the first lady of Ruff Ryders, Eve was an 18-year-old stripper. The self-proclaimed “pitbull in a skirt” turned her experiences into music with a song called “Heaven Only Knows,” singing, “From dancing on tabletops / To making labels pop.” Eve, 37, is now enjoying a busy acting career and showing up in movies like “Barbershop: The Next Cut.”

Source: New York Post