10 Celebs Whose Backgrounds Are Opposite To Their Today’s Success

Shania Twain was born into a family having 5 children, so she was often hungry. She couldn’t study when her mind was always focused on food. However, she never complained to anyone. 

During his childhood, Jim Carrey and his family had to live in a tent on a camping site and sometimes slept in a car. Everything got worst when his dad lost his work. From a very early age, he was aware of the importance of having a decent job. As a teenager, he was a janitor and a guard at a tire factory. 

Viola Davis named of the top 100 influential people in the world several times and is a talented actress and producer. But the path to fame wasn’t simple. She shared that she was one of the 17 million kids who didn’t know where the next meal was coming from and she did everything she could to get food. 

She said, “I have jumped in huge garbage bins with maggots for food.” So, when being famous, she kept helping starving people in the US. 

Sarah Jessica Parker has 7 siblings and that was a huge burden for her parents to raise them. They used to live without power and couldn’t afford to celebrate holidays like Christmas. It was no wonder that Sarah had to wear her older siblings’ clothes. She remembers, “It was a stigma thing. I was not the only person receiving free lunch, but you are aware you are different.”

Halle Berry was born in poverty. She experienced a difficult childhood but everything was worse when she moved to New York to find a job. She didn’t have enough money so she had to settle in a shelter for the homeless. 

Her grandmother picked her up from the orphanage. Despite poor life, she was happy. She shared, “It wasn’t uncomplicated. But I played outside. I went to the beach. There were happy, fun times.” An agent discovered her when she was 10 years old. At a very young age, she had to work so much. 

Hilary Swank has a successful career when she won Oscars twice but until now, she says she is just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream. Her mom always supported her dream of becoming an actress. Even he dropped everything and came to Hollywood with less than $200 in her pocket. They first stayed in an empty house that was for sale. Months later, she auditioned for a movie and got a part.

The time Kelly Clarkson took part in the American Idol audition, she lived on the street. She had nowhere to stay in the big city. Before that, she had a sad story that her parents got divorced when she was 6. She and her mom had to live day by day with pennies. 

Despite being one of the highest-paid actors, Tom Cruise grew up in poverty. His parents had to work tirelessly to feed the household. As an 8-year-old boy, the actor started to find jobs to help his family. At that time, he had a passion for cinema so he sometimes spent his money to buy movie tickets. 

As a toddler, his parents got divorced, and Leonardo DiCaprio lived with his mom in a poor area in LA. There was a prostitution ring where he encountered crime and violence often next to the place they lived. Fortunately, he wasn’t tempted by drugs or alcohol. Leo had to work so hard to become an actor. 

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