Melissa McCarthy's Pre-Comedy Fashion Aspiration

It's tough to imagine Mike & Molly's Melissa McCarthy with any other ambition in life than making us laugh, but as we came to discover Thursday night at a Livestrong charity event hosted by Reese Witherspoon's hubby Jim Toth, the newly-crowned Emmy winner never intended to pursue comedy, rather she just fell into it. 

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Initially, fashion design was Melissa's calling. McCarthy recently revealed plans to start a plus-size clothing line, but not many know that she went to college with the intention to become a designer, but dropped out after only a few years of study.

"I went to college for clothing and textiles and I always thought I would do women's clothing," she explains. "I moved to New York to go to FIT and I'd already done two years of school and ended up starting stand-up instead of continuing school."

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"I'm kind of going back to what I always did," said Melissa of her new fashion venture. "I've always loved it, I've always been obsessed by it and I'm just at a different size now and I cant find anything that I find fashion forward and good so I make so much stuff anyway that It just came about naturally."

Watch the video to hear more from Melissa, and many more celebs in attendance.

If you'd like to learn more about the Livestrong cause, visit their website at www.livestrong.org.