JENNA DEWAN
Grapevine, Texas × ca. 1998
“In Texas this is very serious. We are competitive, [go to] nationals. It’s very hard-core,” Dewan, 42, who was a flyer, told James Corden in 2018. “I was a very serious cheerleader and did not enjoy it.”
CIARA
College Park, Ga. × ca. 2002
“I loved cheerleading—dancing, the game, the excitement, the energy—just everything was fun about it to me,” the “Goodies” singer, 37, said on MTV’s When I Was 17 in 2010.
MERYL STREEP
Bernardsville, N.J. × 1967
As a teen, the future three-time Oscar winner, 74, traveled to New York City to train with an opera coach—only there was somewhere else she preferred to be. “I thought opera was boring, and I wanted to be a cheerleader, so I quit,” she…