Before finding fame and a passion for acting, many TV stars started out in the strangest places. Whether it was working multiple jobs or following a different passion, some stars didn't always know what their next step would be.

That uncertainty about the future was something Cheryl Ladd knew well before she became a household name. Today, she's best known for her role as Kris Munroe on Charlie's Angels.

While acting is what she's best known for, according to an interview with the News & Record, she had another passion first: singing to cows. Once she landed Charlie's Angels, she kissed the cows goodbye.

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"I was singing to cows, but it didn't matter to them," Ladd said.

While acting was something she was good at, music was Ladd's first love. She was a small-town girl from South Dakota, a place where, apparently, sometimes your only audience is a group of barn animals.

Fortunately for Ladd, she believed she was destined for more than that. She also believed she could succeed in singing and acting in front of people, not just livestock.

"You've got to believe in your dreams and yourself," Ladd said. "Music was my number one love, and it was my connection with my father. He played guitar and sang in his off time from his job as a railroad engineer."

According to the interview, Ladd pursued a music career alongside her work on Charlie's Angels. She released albums during the height of the show's popularity and found success as a recording artist as well.

"When I left South Dakota, I traveled with a band (The Music Shop Band), and I had that feeling of a live audience, people to give you all that energy back," Ladd said.

That feeling of performing live and connecting with an audience made her fall in love with entertaining. Instead of cows staring back at her from a pasture, she now had concertgoers cheering from the crowd. The Music Shop Band took her from her hometown to Los Angeles. Then, in 1977, Charlie's Angels came along and changed everything.

It was a challenge because she was replacing Farrah Fawcett, whose departure had become a major news story. Many questions surrounded the series, and plenty of viewers wondered whether anyone could fill Fawcett's shoes. Faced with that pressure, Ladd decided to step into the role anyway because, as she said earlier in the interview, you've got to believe in your dreams — and yourself.

"I just felt I could do my job," she said.

As it turned out, the cows may not have appreciated her singing, but television audiences certainly did appreciate Cheryl Ladd.