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Rapper Eve candidly reflects on the early years of her career: 'I was New York's laziest stripper' - until she was spotted by Diddy's new signing


The now 45-year-old has revealed that, before she was a platinum-selling hip-hop artist, actor, and celebrated talk show host, she worked as a teenage stripper.

'I'm standing topless in front of some middle-aged man, smiling with his legs spread, like he's ready for me to hop on and start grinding him,' writes the now 45-year-old in her new memoir, Who's That Girl? In 2020, Eve (far right) was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for co-hosting CBS's The Talk, alongside Sharon Osbourne, Sheryl Underwood and Carrie Ann Inaba None of her family in Philadelphia had a clue what was going on - mainly because she would join a few other dancers a couple of times a week and drive 95 miles away to New York, to perform at the Golden Lady in the Bronx.

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