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I started doing radio commercials for Kmart when I was 4. They had to splice all my consonants together because I couldn't talk very well. But these jobs helped my mother and me put food on the table. It took the two of us working.

— Christina Applegate

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✓Similar Perspectives

I was 5 years old when I did my first catwalk and did commercials at 16. I went professional after my studies.

— Melania Trump

When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s. And just through necessity, going out looking for work, I was starting to sing, and dance, and act, and I never expected to do that, nor to have any success at it at least.

— Dick Van Dyke

I did commercials and voice-overs as a kid, and it just lead to musical theatre opportunities.

— Jennifer Damiano

When I was 10 or 11 people started saying there was something special about my voice. But when I was 15 or 16 is when I really thought my hobby could become my career.

— Jessie J

I started making music professionally when I was 14.

— Sky Ferreira

My mother and father definitely encouraged me. People used to tell my mom that I should be in commercials, and then everything kicked off from there, and my first gig was some print work.

— Raven Goodwin

I was 18 when I got my first TV job.

— Andrea Arnold

I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.

— G-Eazy

I've been working since I was a child. I worked cutting lawns, delivering newspapers; I was a telephone salesperson; I was a guitar repairman.

— Nile Rodgers

✗Opposing Perspectives

My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old, and I thought it was big time.

— Dolly Parton