There is a handful of jobs out there that I don't think I could do for all the tea in China. I don't think I could be an exotic dancer. I'm not well endowed, my dance skills are only good when I am under the influence and even then they are only on point to me, and I can't stay awake past eleven. See, I couldn't do it. I could not train exotic animals. Nothing about getting in a cage with a lion sounds appealing to me. Please can I maybe get my face ripped to shreds on a daily basis. No thanks, I'll pass. I would never on my LIFE be a school bus driver. Drive around the yellow goose while kids scream and disrespect me? Just no.
Lastly, I could not work for these fifteen celebrities. While some celebs treat their help like family, these fifteen famous folk do not. The assistants, the housekeepers and the nannies are made to do the most insane, inhumane jobs these people can think of on a daily basis and in return they receive more tasks, reprimands and sometimes even verbal abuse.
Honestly, lion tamer is looking ok after reading about what Ricki Lake's assistant had to do.
Hell. Freaking. No.
15 Vanessa Bryant Was Sued By Her Own Maid
Kobe Bryant and his wife Vanessa were described by their former housekeeper as the worst people to work for after she reported suffered countless abuses at the hand of her former employer. In a lawsuit filed by the former employee, Vanessa reportedly called the defendant lazy, slow and dumb and even accused her of stealing her mouth retainer. No one wants your gross retainer Vanessa. The super spoiled wife to the basketball superstar badgered, harassed and humiliated her maid in front of the Bryant children even forcing the help to stick her hand in a bag of dog poop to retrieve a tag from a blouse. The housekeeper sued the Bryants for emotional distress, unpaid wages, wrongful discharge and invasion of privacy and ended up walking away with a six figure payout.
14 It's Madam Kourtney To YOU!
The oldest Kardashian sister, Kourtney, is known for being super laid back when it comes to rearing her three kids. While the cameras are rolling, the fashion forward mama never seems cheesed about anything. In fact Kourt is so chill that she even pulled her own son out of her hoo-hoo during her delivery. An ex-nanny to the family revealed that while Kourtney seems totally relaxed while on screen, she is a fussy boss to work for. Ms. Kardashain requires her children's caregiver to call her "madame" at all times. Once the nanny slipped up and called her employer by her first name and heads rolled. The babysitter made sure to never made that mistake again. Considering the Kardashians think that they are royalty I am kind of surprised she didn't make the help refer to her as "Your Highness."
13 Ricki Lake's Assistant Had To Clean The Birthing Tub
Celebs ask their hired help to do some strange things and some requests are downright deplorable. I think former talk show host Ricki Lake might take the cake when it comes to asking her employees to go above and beyond the call of duty. Lake is a big fan of water births. In fact she is such an avid believer in the practice that she filmed the documentary, The Business of Being Born, which included clips of her squirming around in agony in the bathtub. I think I can speak for us all when I say that this is a film we can all skip out on and never have a single regret about missing it. Ricki's assistant had just about the worst job imaginable...she had to clean out the bathtub after her boss gave birth in it! I wonder if Lake is paying for that girl's therapy.
12 Jenifer Lopez's Assistant Must Know When She's Hungry
You have to have some very thick skin and basically no self esteem to work for her highness Jenifer Lopez. J Lo is known for her diva like behaviors and demands, she is also known for treating staff like dirt. The Latina singer/actress has had hotel maids fired for requesting autographs, has given a flight attendant or two the cold shoulder and even banned all people working on her new home from ever making eye contact with her. While those seem like some pretty rude behaviors, they don't hold a candle to what she forces upon her assistant. This lucky person must be available around the clock, change diapers, be resourceful in foreign countries, cook when the Butler is away and know when J Lo is hungry. Jenny From the Block can not be bothered to let people know when she is famished.
11 Sarah Jessica Parker's Nanny Must Sing The Twins To Sleep
Sarah Jessica Parker's nanny is looking worse for wear and that is because the poor woman never gets any rest. It is rumored that Parker's tiny twins aren't the world's greatest sleepers and because they once passed out to mommy singing Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head, Parker now swears that the famous song is the only way to get the twins down at night. The girls' nanny is required to sing the song over and over and over again each night until the little ladies finally nod off. I happen to know how torturous this can be considering my oldest daughter developed a strange fascination with Gordon Lightfoot's The Pony Man during her toddler years. I have never hated a song more. This poor nanny, she must seriously dread the evening hours.
10 Paula Deen Refered To Her Staff By The N-Word
Paula you might cook up a mean heart-attack on a plate, but only your buttery dishes are savory and tasteful. Your behavior in the workplace? Not so much! Back in 2003 Dean landed in some hot water for using the "N-word" in reference to her employees, she was also aware that her co-owner brother was creating a hostile environment with his racial slurs and sexual harassment in the workplace. A former manager of the co-owned restaurant, Uncle Bubba's Seafood and Oyster House, sued the food guru and her bro for the disturbing manner in which she was treated when employed by them. Dean ended up fired from her lucrative Food Network television show following her admission of using racial slurs.
9 Mariah Carey And Her Disposable Nannies
I feel bad for Mariah Carey's nannies for all sorts of reasons. Really I feel bad for pretty much everyone in her employ considering she is pretty much the definition of diva. Mariah has no beef against using help when it comes to her twins, Monroe and Moroccan, in fact she straight up relies on the aid of her nannies. The childcare employees are welcome to stay working for Mama Mimi so long as the twins don't get too attached. Once Mariah notices a bond forming between her children and their nannies she cuts them loose immediately. It is reported that Mariah can not stand the idea of her children loving any one else. What a selfish human being! During an interview the songstress even told one radio station that she "goes through nannies like water." Nice.
8 Mad Madge Makes Everyone Quit
Madonna is the Queen of Pop as well as The Queen of Rude. She has no problem telling interviewers or her adoring fans to shut up and she goes through hired help like most people go through toilet paper. Everyone leaves Madonna, because she is unbearable to work for. Her nanny let the wide world of Facebook know that her boss makes unreasonable and ridiculous requests, (although she didn't detail which ones were made) and she was over it all. Another insider revealed that Madonna makes her staff be available to her twenty-four hours a day just in case she has some asinine task to be attended to. Perhaps Madge's bad boss behavior is why in 2009 five staff members quit in a week! The chauffeur, two nannies and two personal assistants all got sick and tired of Madonna's crap and flew the coup.
7 Charlize Theron And Her Nanny Are NOT A Team
Most moms work alongside their children's teachers and caregivers to create a loving team approach to child rearing, after all isn't it supposed to be about the kids anyways? Well stunning actress Charlize Theron and her nanny are NOT teammates, in fact it is made very clear to everyone that Theron is the boss and all others are minions working under her. Charlize is adamant that the childminders who take care of her kids never speak to her or make eye contact with her. While most of us can not wait to get home and ask the babysitter all about our little ones' day, Ms. Theron has her nanny write down notes in a notebook which she would then read at her leisure. That isn't intimidating or anything. Nothing like creating an environment of anxiety and stress lady!
6 Heidi Klum's Big UnHappy Family
What you are seeing here is the nanny patrol belonging to the family of Heidi Klum and musician Seal. Maybe my counting is off, but it looks like they have four nannies for three children. I can not imagine having a nanny for each of my children and an extra to boot! What does the floater even do? Cover lunches? How do they even coordinate with so many cooks in the kitchen? If they want to take a stroll along the boardwalk, as seen here, do they all have to run it by one another? Can the nannies step in and care for or discipline one another's charges? Is this like nanny sister wives? Seriously though this is excessive beyond belief. Not sure these are happy nannies, look at their faces. They look freaking miserable. Perhaps the family requires a band of babysitters because the kids are so terrible? Why else would you need so many caregivers?
5 Kevin Federline Is Too Posh To Push The Stroller
So let me get this straight: Kevin Federline you are roughly two hundred and fifty pounds and your wifey there is a professional athlete. You two seem more than capable of pushing the stroller around in the California heat, but hey! Since you both think you qualify as over privileged celebrities, (and for the record I happen to disagree,) why don't you hire some older, slightly overweight grannie to do it for you. She probably has sweat dripping down her back and her blood pressure is most likely dangerously high, but what do you care...I mean you are a retired back up dancer. Yeah, I said it. Just because you knocked up Brit Brit doesn't give you the right to act so high and mighty that you can't push your own stroller. Ugh. Whatevs K-fed.
4 Naomi Watts Is Too Being Famous To Scooter With Her Son
I'm not so sure I would call A-list actress Naomi Watts a hands-on mommy. Here she is strolling along while her nanny obviously works up a sweat while helping to steer Naomi's young son on his scooter. I get that the stars need childcare while they work weird hours on set and to hold the fort down wile actors jet off to the many movie premieres that take them far away from the home, but do you really need the nanny to come on this walk with you? Seriously the kid is like seven! Can you not just forego the help for a half hour and push his ass on the scooter? Also I'm wondering who the other lady is. If you tell me it's an extra nanny like Heidi Klum often has on had I will rage.
3 Matthew Mconaughey's Overworked Nanny Looks Like All Of Us
This nanny is the hired help to a couple of the most beautiful and talented humans in the universe. Even though it looks as if this nanny has her work cut out for her here life has only gotten busier in the past year since there are now three little ones running circles around her with the addition of little baby Livingston! Poor gal, she is starting to look like me. Matthew Mconaughey and Camilla Alves better be paying this nanny well because she is spending her days as a walking, talking human jungle gym. I wonder if they pay extra to get her jeans cleaned considering they are covered in apple shavings. Who knows that else she gets smearing all over her in a day's work. With three tony tots in tow perhaps they should consider borrowing one of Heidi and Seal's nannies.
2 Gwen Stefani's Nanny Will Never Work In This Town Again
I don't know if this is nanny mistreatment, but lord know if this woman had lifetime aspirations of celeb nannying, she is seriously screwed. No famous mommies are going to be calling this one up and begging her to come with for them. Life seemed like a rock and roll fairy tale for Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossedale for years. I think we all thought they had a really good chance at making it. The parents to three young sons seemed to be totally in love when the news broke that Rossdale had been getting it on for years with the kids' nanny. Imagine that... your husband and the woman that you entrust your precious children with doing the nasty behind your back. Also, who in their right mind cheats on Gwen Stefani. Everything is a downgrade Gavin. You're dumb. Also, you kind of ruined that young girl's life.
1 Courtney Love Mistreatment Lands Her In Hot Water
Courtney Love's former assistant, Jessica Labrie, sued her former employer claiming that Love, "acted with an improper and evil motive amounting to malice and despicable conduct." Whoa, nothing about that sounds pleasant. Aside from basically being a rotten human being Love was further accused of forcing her assistant to hack into computers for her as well as send false correspondence on her behalf. Although the employee was promised thirty dollars an hour for her services she claimed she worked sixty hours a week and was never paid a cent of overtime. Love even agreed to pay Labrie's tuition, but never ponied up. Labrie probably had to take a number when it came to getting an apology from the Hole singer. She isn't exactly known for her classy behavior...or sobriety.