Minka Kelly, Blac Chyna, and More Celebs Raised By Stripper Moms!

Keanu Reeves

The Matrix actor's mom was reportedly a stripper and his father was imprisoned for selling heroin. He went on abandon Keanu and his family when he was just three years old.

Blac Chyna

The ex-fiancee of Rob Kardashian was a stripper herself — and revealed her mom Tokyo Toni gave her some good advice when it came to following her platform heels.

"My mom used to be a stripper, so she was like, if this is what you want to do, be the best at it," she told Elle.

Mariska Hargitay

The Law & Order: SVU star is the daughter of Hollywood bombshell Jayne Mansfield, who has nightclub entertainer on her lengthy resume.

Francis Bean Cobain

Everyone knows that Francis is the daughter of late Nirvana rocker Kurt Cobain and singer Courtney Love.

However, before her big break, Courtney revealed she was a stripper in LA to bankroll her band Hole.

"I didn't just work at Jumbo's, I worked at Nude, Nude, Nude! Century Lounge near the airport. I got to work in the day," she told LA Weekly. To me back then, 300 bucks in a day was fine. I was able to do the kind of stripper economy which is … for every $5 I made, I would give Eric Erlandson three of them and that's how we bought our van and we bought our backline."

Richard Pryor

Before taking the stage as a standup comic, Richard was raised in his grandmother's brothel where his mother worked. His mom went on to abandon her son when he was just 10 years old.

Keith "Bang Bang" McCurdy

The famous tattoo artist, who has inked everyone from Rihanna to Cara Delevingne, revealed his mom was a 17-year-old when she got pregnant and started working as a stripper.

"When I’d hear a good song, I remember thinking, 'Oh, Mom, you can dance to this!' Now I realize that picking out music to accompany your mom when she takes off her clothes in front of strangers is kind of weird, but so is a toddler napping in the kitchen of a strip club," he wrote in his memoir.

Minka Kelly

The Friday Night Lights star admits she had a complicated relationship with her mom, who worked at a strip club.

"'I didn't know how to appreciate what good friends we were because I just wanted her to be my mom," she told Cosmo. "She was 5ft 11… legs up to her ears, gorgeous. She got along on that for as long as she could."