Carly Rae Jepsen reveals her pre-fame jobs: 'It was very bohemian'

Carly Rae Jepsen says she used to be a bartender before she became famous.

The singer told Entertainment Weekly that she was also at one point a coffee barista and a pastry chef's assistant.

The Canadian hit the big time in 2012 with the single 'Call Me Maybe', but it seems things were a little more modest in bygone years.

Jepsen said: "I was a bartender at this place called Media Club. God only knows how I passed my bartending exam.

"Actually, I do know. The guy asked me to dinner at the end of it. And I was like, 'That's why I got 98 percent.' Somehow I got a job out of that thing, and all I knew how to make was a screwdriver. And beer!"

The 29-year-old added: "'It was a very bohemian lifestyle. For a while, I was living with a girl named Veronique, a French Canadian girl, who had a pull-out couch, and she was renting it for 400 dollars a month. Which is more than I could afford.

"I was working as a coffee barista. And then I soon became the pastry chef's assistant, because the actual chef went away to see her internet lover in Norway. I was the only one who knew how to make all those pastries. I could make you eight cheesecakes at a time. Slowly building my way to the top!"

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