Channing Tatum feels ''lucky'' he didn't become a teenage father.

The 34-year-old star - who has 11-month-old daughter Everly with wife Jenna Dewan-Tatum - was a stripper when he was 18 in Tampa, Florida, and is relieved he didn't succumb to any of the temptations around him.

He said: ''There's so much salacious and dangerous stuff going on around you, but it's fun at the same time, as a 19-year-old kid - money, women, a good time. I'm lucky - I don't have a drug addiction, I didn't get anyone pregnant. I probably got really lucky.''

The 'Magic Mike' actor admits being a stripper was like an ''alternative reality'' because of the diverse mix of people around him.

In a new interview with America's GQ magazine, he said: ''They're just so out there you're in an alternate reality. Even as a 19-year-old kid, I just couldn't believe this world I was in.

''These guys, some of them are really cool, some of them are completely, like, hippies, some are completely meatheads and steroid-crazy freakazoids, other ones are stuck in the '80s, and some of them are an everyday Joe that has a construction job, and some of them are businessmen. One guy was an attorney during the day.''