Pink the stripper

Strip down to your underwear and get up on stage," barked Rebecca. I took a deep breath and steeled myself. This was the moment I'd been preparing for, the reason I'd purchased a new bra and matching underwear. Rebecca was the dancer manager responsible for hiring the strippers excuse me, dancers of an upmarket "gentlemen's club" in the red-light district.

For decades, stories about strippers have graced the big screens. Now, Hustlers , starring Jennifer Lopez, Constance Wu, Lili Reinhart, and more, drops this week, flipping the traditional story on its head by making its dancers entrepreneurs who game the system and trick men into spending money while drugged out of their minds. In honor of Hustlers , we decided to round up some of the best, sexiest stripper movies of all time. Take a look, stream, and maybe hit the pole for a killer ab workout afterward. Channing Tatum brought his real-life stripper skills yes, he was a stripper before he became an actor! Stream Now. Her character moves to Las Vegas to pursue a dancing career.

Stars like Channing Tatum and Cardi B are known for their success in movies and music. But before breaking through Hollywood, they took jobs as strippers to earn money — and they're not the only stars who have turned to exotic dancing. There are many other celebrities who revealed that they were strippers, whether it was for a weekend, a few months, or several years. At the time, she was a single mother struggling to pay rent and support her son. Leakes took a job as a stripper under the name "Silk" and said that she felt " powerful" as a dancer.

The last thing I need is to walk into a new strip club and piss off all the girls by getting blood on the pole. My eyelashes slip off. My lipstick melts. My nails are chipped and painted black. I then pull on over that my regular chonies.