Your Favorite Celebrities Who Used to be Cheerleaders

NeNe Leakes was a born cheerleader because of her natural determination. As a teenage girl, she was determined to make the cheerleading squad while she was enrolled in Clarke Central High School in Georgia, and eventually did. Leakes cheered on the football games and Clarke Central High until her senior graduation day.

Leakes wasn’t ready to stop there. She loved the enthusiasm and excitement of cheerleading and performing for others and found her way onto Bravo’s reality TV series, The Real Housewives of Atlanta in 2008. Leakes’ next project is to become the co-host of E!’s beauty competition TV series, Glam Shutdown.