What You Never Knew About Amber Rose

Amber Rose's early life in poverty forced her to make some tough choices. Desperately needing cash to keep herself and her mother afloat, she ventured into the world of stripping at age 15, according to Cosmopolitan. She thought it would be an easy way to make money — but it wasn't fun. "I was very, very young," she said. "I did it and I was like 'Oh hell no, I cannot do this.' I was a kid."

But, a few years later, she decided to give it another shot — and had an entirely different experience. "That was the best time of my life! Oh god, I had so much fun. I really did. All the girls were really cool. The guys weren't allowed to touch you," she recalled to Cosmopolitan. 

Fun as it was, it was still a job, and, on her radio show, "Loveline" (as reported by the Daily Mail), Rose offered some serious advice for a listener who was considering stripping: "Look at every single face in there as dollar signs. Go in there, make your money, go home, pay your bills." In short, keep the boundaries firm between your stripper identity and the rest of your life. Additionally, "Don't do anything after, before or during, sexually," she warned. 

While she's moved past stripping professionally, Rose found another way to profit from it: As Essence reported, she purchased the glitzy Ace of Diamonds strip club in Los Angeles in 2020.