No one should ever say that Julia Roberts didn’t work her way up from nothing. After all, the actress recently revealed to Ellen DeGeneres that one of her first jobs was anything but glamorous. 

The actress once worked at ShowBiz Pizza Place in Georgia around 1984 as a teenager, serving cake at birthday parties, but the best part is… she was also dressed as a bear. 

“I wore a bear costume and brought out the birthday cakes,” she revealed. “I was covered. There was a mask. I was not the only person to wear this costume — for sure there were bears before me. So when you would get in it you would just have to kind of like, before you put the head on, [say], ‘I could do this for minimum wage.’ And there was a button on the very top that had a fan that really just circulated the history of the costume.”

She added,  “Now that I’m talking about it, it sounds awful, but at the time, [I loved it].” 

Wait till you see the photo Ellen shared of Julia as a teen. Watch below: