From an aspiring writer to a media giant.
For anybody who tuned in to “Melrose Place” during the nineties, Andrew Shue was Billy Campbell, the aspiring writer and ladies man. Before the show even ended, however, Shue was an entrepreneur.
He co-founded DoSomething.org in 1993, a nonprofit that motivates young generations to make positive changes online and off. He went on from there, co-founding Club Mom, an offline shopping club. After that came the social networking site CafeMom, and the digital media giant CafeMedia, which has 102 million monthly unique visitors and 417 million social followers, according to LinkedIn.
Al Green
The singer is preaching to the choir.
With eight top ten hits on the Billboard Hot 100, Al Green is quite the musician. But he's way more than just a musician to the people of Memphis, Tennessee. For more than forty years he has been a pastor for the Gospel Tabernacle Church in the city.
Neither the church, nor Green himself, have a website to visit, but TripAdvisor of all places has some info. A few reviews raved about his preaching style. His faith was on display during a 2016 interview with the site Commercial Appeal, in which he said that he has regular conversations with God.
Lauren “Lo” Bosworth
The hills are alive with the sound of self-care.
Anybody who turned on MTV during the aughts was familiar with Lo Bosworth. She practically grew up in front of the camera. She played none other than herself on the series “Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County” until 2005, and then made the jump to “The Hills” from 2007 to 2010. Since then she traded in a starring role for a leading role, having founded her own personal care brand.
The brand, Love Wellness, sells cleansers, probiotics, vitamins, and more. She also runs the lifestyle site TheLoDown and co-hosts a weekly podcast called “Lady Lovin',” which probably gets a lot of clicks.
Willa Ford
Wanted to be bad but is actually pretty good.
Willa Ford announced what she was about in 2001 when she released the single “I Wanna Be Bad,” which climbed up to number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100. Her second single, however, came out on September eleventh, 2001, and when it failed to get anywhere she decided the music industry wasn't for her.
She dipped her toe into acting and gets roles every now and again, but she currently works full-time as an interior designer. She's the founder and head designer of Los Angeles-based Wford Interiors, channeling her creative energy into making beautiful spaces for her clients.
Cameron Diaz
Stay-at-home Diaz.
You couldn't throw a sock full of wet chewing gum in the nineties and two-thousands without hitting a Cameron Diaz movie poster, it seemed. She was one of the biggest stars of the era, but her last role was in 2014, and in 2018 she told Entertainment Weekly that she was “actually retired.”
She wants to spend as much time as possible with her kid while her husband Benji Madden works. No nanny for this famous A-lister. Going from a red carpet delight to a stay-at-home mom isn't a move many people would make, but sometimes the thing you're meant to do in life isn't what you always expect.