Weird Celeb Facts So Crazy You Won’t Believe They’re True

An entertaining list with some of the lesser-known and very random facts about celebrities that make you wonder who these people are!

As the saying goes, the truth can be stranger than fiction — and that certainly seems to be the case when it comes to celebrity secrets. For instance, can you name the famous movie star who worked as a lion tamer in his youth? Or the celebrity singer who was born with four nipples? Read on for some crazy — but true — celebrity facts.

Kesha

Claims She Slept With A Ghost

In an interview with Conan O’Brien, Kesha claims that she once got intimate with a ghost. The nameless spirit began caressing her and the two proceeded to have a “sexy time” together. The singer is not the only celebrity who’s claimed to have had a romantic encounter with an otherworldly spirit, either.

Harry Styles

Has Four Nipples

The One Direction singer confirmed a rumor that he had four nipples in an interview with Chelsea Handler. The condition of having additional nipples is called polythelia. “It’s a thing,” Styles said.

Katy Perry

Collects Celebrity Hair

When it comes to having weird hobbies, Katy Perry might take the prize. The singer revealed that she likes to collect fellow celebrities’ hair. Specifically, Perry has said that she has locks from Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift.

Ashton Kutcher

Has Webbed Toes

Ashton Kutcher has a condition called syndactyly, aka webbed toes. The actor showed off his connected digits on a British talk show in 2008. “When everything else is this good-looking, something has to give,” he quipped.

Paris Hilton

Built A Dog Mansion In Her Backyard

Famed Chihuahua-lover Paris Hilton built her dogs a 300-square-foot “doggy mansion” in her backyard. Not only does it have air-conditioning and heating, but she also decked it out with designer furniture, pink-colored walls and a chandelier. Plus, the two-story dog home has a balcony and enclosed yard in case the dogs want to spend some time outside. “Loves it,” she wrote of her dogs’ home.

Rebel Wilson

Became An Actress Because Of A Hallucination

While some actors are born wanting to be on stage or in movies, it took catching malaria for Rebel Wilson to realize she wanted to be an actress. During a trip to South Africa, Wilson says she had a hallucination of winning an Oscar, likely brought on by the medications she was taking for malaria. After that, she decided to turn the hallucination into a real-life pursuit.

Tom Hanks

Is Obsessed With Typewriters

Tom Hanks doesn’t just like vintage typewriters, he has a collection of over 100 of them. He even wrote a book of short stories that featured a typewriter in each one.

“The tactile pleasure of typing old school is incomparable to what you get from a de rigueur laptop,” he wrote in the New York Times, explaining his passion for the machines.

Leslie Mann

Is A Talented Unicyclist

If you think riding a unicycle is only for clowns, you might be surprised that actress Leslie Mann lists it as a talent of hers.

“I got one for Christmas when I was 10 and taught myself how to use it. Now I can do all kinds of tricks, like cycling backward and jumping off curbs,”.

Oprah

Has A Bathtub That’s Shaped Like Her Body

When you’re Oprah, an ordinary bathtub simply won’t do! During an interview on “The Late Late Show,” Winfrey revealed that she owns a marble and onyx hand-carved tub that’s shaped like her body. It was also made with enough room to fit another person!

Kanye

A Rumor Led Kim and Kanye To Name Their Daughter North

Someone clever up came up with the name “North West” — but it wasn’t North’s parents, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. Kardashian revealed that the name had been a rumor in the press while she was pregnant with their first child, but the couple hadn’t actually considered using the name. That is, until friends and fellow celebrities like Pharrell Williams and Anna Wintour mentioned to them that they loved it.

“I guess at that point, it sort of stuck,” Kardashian said.

James Lipton

Worked As A Pimp In The 1950s

Yes, you read that correctly. The host of “Inside the Actors Studio” revealed that he worked as a pimp when he lived in Paris during the 1950s. He explained to Parade that after World War II, it was a different time and that pimps in France did not exploit sex workers, but acted more as their agents.

“I was going through my rites of passage, no question about it,” he said. “It was a great year of my life.”

Jon Hamm

Was Ellie Kemper’s Drama Teacher

Before he was famous, Missouri native Jon Hamm worked as a high school theater teacher for a year at a school in St. Louis. Among his students was none other than actress Ellie Kemper. Years later, the two worked together on “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.”

The Obamas

Didn’t Pay Off Student Loans Until They Were In Their 40s.

Although the Obamas are not everyday folks in many respects, there is at least one thing about Barack and Michelle Obama that is highly relatable. The couple didn’t finish paying off their loans until 2004, only a few years before Barack would win the presidency. They were 42 and 40 years old, respectively.
Leighton Meester’s Mom Was Incarcerated When She Was Born

While Leighton Meester wasn’t actually born in prison, her mother was reportedly serving a prison sentence related to marijuana smuggling when she gave birth to the future actress in a hospital. And she isn’t the only member of the family to have a rap sheet —Meester’s aunt also supposedly broke out of prison and was on the U.S. Marshals 15 Most Wanted List for a time.

Miley Cyrus

Given Name Is ‘Destiny Hope’

Although she reportedly had been called Miley since she was a baby, Miley Cyrus was actually born Destiny Hope Cyrus. With the help of her parents, the singer legally changed her name in 2008 at the age of 15.

Zoe Saldana

Can Move Her Eyeballs In Different Directions

When it comes to special skills, actress Zoe Saldana may have the most random one we’ve ever heard. The actress told Us Magazine that she can move her eyeballs in different directions at the same time.

“That’s my claim to fame,” she said.

Sarah Jessica Parker

Met Cynthia Nixon First As Children

Although they played friends on “Sex and the City,” Sarah Jessica Parker and Cynthia Nixon actually met long before the TV series premiered in 1998. According to Nixon, the two were both child actresses and met when they were 12 and 13 years old while performing “Little House in the Big Woods.”
Meghan Markle Did The Calligraphy For Paula Patton And Robin Thicke’s Wedding Invitations

Long before she walked down the aisle and became royalty, Meghan Markle was paying her bills by doing calligraphy for wedding invitations. Reportedly, she did the invitation calligraphy for at least one celebrity bash: Paula Patton and Robin Thicke’s wedding in 2005.

Dennis Quaid

Is A Trained Ballet Dancer

Dennis Quaid may be a movie star, but he’s also got some serious dance moves! The actor revealed that he studied ballet while he was a student at the University of Houston. In Us Weekly, he wrote that it was an “incredible workout.” (You may recall that he seemed to have no problem busting a move with Julia Roberts in “Something to Talk About.”)

Jerry Springer

Was Once The Mayor Of Cincinnati

Although most of the world knows Jerry Springer as a TV talk show host, some Ohio residents remember him as the mayor of Cincinnati. The city council appointed him for one year between 1977 and 1978 (as was the city’s practice at the time). In recent years, Springer has contemplated running for Ohio governor.
Justin Timberlake’s Mom Was Ryan Gosling’s Guardian

As kids, Justin Timberlake and Ryan Gosling didn’t just perform together on “The Mickey Mouse Club,” they also lived together and shared a bathroom. Reportedly, Timberlake’s mom became Gosling’s legal guardian for about six months after Gosling’s mom had to return to Canada for work.

Nicole Kidman

Is Afraid Of Butterflies

Many people think that butterflies are beautiful, but Nicole Kidman doesn’t care for them. She reportedly can’t shake a phobia of butterflies that stems from her childhood in Australia. She supposedly can’t stand the feeling of a butterfly touching her.

Paul Newman

Taught Jake Gyllenhaal How To Drive

With parents who had careers as a director and screenwriter, Jake Gyllenhaal grew up with famous people around, including Paul Newman, who was a close family friend. The famed older actor reportedly even gave a young Gyllenhaal a driving lesson.

Margot Robbie

Is A Trained Trapeze Artist

If she wasn’t an actress, Margot Robbie might have been a trapeze performer. She reportedly began taking trapeze lessons at a circus school at the age of 8. She even accepted a role in a yet-to-be-made movie about a trapeze artist.

Tom Cruise

Divorced All Of His Wives When They Were 33

Do you know what Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kidman and Katie Holmes all have in common? They were all 33 years old when their marriages to Tom Cruise ended. The coincidence has not gone unnoticed by the internet and, of course, some people even developed conspiracy theories surrounding it.

Jeremy Renner

Used To Be A Makeup Artist

Instead of waiting tables like many struggling actors, Jeremy Renner worked as a makeup artist before striking it big as an actor.

“I could do makeup because I did theater,”.” “I could draw, so I’m like, ‘OK, I’ll do makeup on girls all day … It bought me a lot of free time to go audition when I needed to because I only had to work a few hours a week. I didn’t have to wait tables, so it was actually a great gig.”

Jennifer Lawrence

Has A Tattoo Reminding Her To Drink Water

Staying hydrated is apparently so important to Jennifer Lawrence that she got a tattoo to remind her of it! The actress has an “H2O” tattoo on the back of her right hand.

“It’s literally the most un-rebellious tattoo that anyone could ever get,”.

Matthew Broderick

2 People Died After Getting Into A Car Accident

In 1987, Matthew Broderick got into a car accident that left a 28-year-old woman and her mom dead in Northern Ireland when his rental car collided head-on with their vehicle. The actor was on vacation at the time with his then-girlfriend and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” co-star, Jennifer Grey, who was just about to start publicity for “Dirty Dancing.” While Grey was only bruised, Broderick sustained a broken leg and other injuries from the crash.

Christopher Walken

Used To Be A Lion Tamer

If there was an award for the scariest pre-fame job an actor could have, Christopher Walken would win it! As a 16-year-old, Walken worked as an assistant lion tamer for a circus. He found the job in a newspaper listing.

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