#9 Christmas tree farm
Before leaving for Nashville to chase her dreams of becoming a country star, at the tender age of just 14, Swift grew up on a Christmas tree farm. While appearing on ‘The Tonight Show with Jay Leno’, she spoke about how she was too small to help out with the heavy lifting, and so her job was to make sure the trees were free from praying mantis pods. She told Leno: “I forgot to check one time and they hatched all over these people’s house. There were hundreds of thousands of them!”