Ciara Princess Wilson, now known just as Ciara, acted as the captain of Riverdale High School’s cheerleading squad and has gone on record saying she loves everything about the sport: the dancing, the energy, and the excitement.
In an interview, the famous R&B singer said: “Unfortunately, I couldn’t be as involved as I wanted to be because it was the year when my music started to become even more important to me.” It turns out the music was worth it, since she has multiple platinum albums, with millions of copies sold.
Diane Sawyer
Born only a few months after the end of World War II, Sawyer once revealed she felt overshadowed by her older sister. That all changed when cheerful, blonde Diane joined the cheerleaders at Seneca High School in Louisville, Kentucky, and then she started to gain attention after a lifetime of living like a loner.
After cheerleading, Sawyer spent three years promoting the Coca-Cola Pavilion at the World's Fair and began appearing on television in 1978. In 1981 she was a co-anchor of CBS Morning News and in 1984 a correspondent for 60 minutes. She remains on TV today, still showing up on ABC news.
Olivia Munn
Olivia Munn spent a great deal of her life in Japan, where her stepfather was stationed in the Air Force. However, when her mother and stepfather split up, Olivia returned to her mother's home in Oklahoma, where she cheered as part of the Putnam City North High School squad. She went to school for journalism and moved to Los Angeles to pursue show business.
This combo led her to become the host of 'Attack of the Show', which discussed pop culture, general news, and previews of video games, movies, and digital media. She has since jumped to movies, playing Psylocke in 'X-Men: Apocalypse.'
Kirsten Dunst
She had the main role as cheerleader Torrance Shipman in the movie "Bring It On, "and it should come as a shock to nobody that Kirsten Dunst was a real-life pom girl all the way up until the movie came out. Its as if she practiced her future roles on a real-life basketball court
Dunst signed with the Ford Modeling Agency at an unbelievable three years old, while she was living in New Jersey, and appeared in over a hundred commercials before her big break. As her career grew, she was a cheerleader at Laurel High School and Notre Dame High School.
Eva Longoria
Unlike many of the names on this list, cheerleading wasn't just a fun activity for Mexican-American actress Eva Longoria. For her, it led directly to her Hollywood career. Not everyone is born to a celeb parent, and some actually work their way to the top. While cheering at Roy Miller High School in Corpus Cristi, Texas, and at Texas A&M-Kingsville, Longoria appeared in pageants and won the Miss Corpus Cristi pageant in 1988.
Soon after, a theatrical agent in Los Angeles discovered her, and the rest is history. Longoria is best known as Gabrielle Solis in the ABC series "Desperate Housewives."