10 CELEBRITIES WHO WERE ONCE POOR & EVEN HOMELESS
Before they rose to fame, before the flashy cars, private jets and wild parties, many of the world's wealthiest and most recognised celebrities struggled for money and some were even homeless.
Here are 10 incredible stories of famous people..
10. Leonardo Dicaprio
Before making it big in Hollywood, the 40 year old actor Leonardo Dicaprio was just a poor kid living in L.A. surrounded by drugs and prostitution. Dicaprio once told Los Angeles Times in February 2014, that he grew up in a poor and rundown neighborhood in Los
Angeles where drugs and prostitution were so prevalent in his neighborhood, that it turned him off to do drugs at
a very young age, because he saw addiction all around him.
These days, Leonardo Dicaprio lives a life full and is worth over $200 million..
9. Justin Bieber..
The megastar today was very miserably poor before he was discovered by Usher. According to Bieber himself, before becoming famous he grew up in a rat-infested home with an empty fridge.
He used to live off a simple diet of macaroni and cheese and sleeping on a worn out couch in a rat infested house ! Today, he is worth almost $65 million !

8. Mariah Carey..
Mariah Carey grew up with nothing and in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Long Island.. She then moved to New York and had to work multiple jobs at the same time just to survive and miraculously met a Columbia Records executive at a party..
The rest is history as she went on to become one of the highest-selling female artists ever..
The beautiful Oscar winning actress didn't always live the high life she has now… Halle Berry moved to NYC early in her career to pursue her dream as a model and actress but had to stay in a homeless shelter while trying to find
work in New York..
At the age of 21, this star never gave up and had no financial help from her parents after her mother decided the best thing would be to not send her daughter more cash. In an interview with Star Pulse, Berry said:
It taught me how to take care of myself and that I could live through any situation, even if it meant going to a shelter for a small stint, or living within my means, which were meager. I became a person who knows that I will always make my own way.

6. Tom Cruise..
Tom Cruise was born to an abusive father who was an electrical engineer and his mother was a special education teacher. His family lived in poverty throughout his childhood..
At age 11, his mother left his father and his father died of cancer later that year. Years later, Tom's mother was working four jobs to support her four children and he eventually dropped out of high school his senior year in order to pursue acting.
In 1983, Tom appeared in the films The Outsiders, Risky Business and All the Right Moves . His role in Top Gun in 1986, fortified him as a Hollywood star. Tom Cruise is now worth an estimated $500 million.

5. Demi Moore..
Demi Moore's biological father left her mother a few months before she was born but her mother got remarried when she was three months old.
Her mother and stepfather were both alcoholics and they all lived together in a trailer park until she dropped out of school at 16 to move to Hollywood. That gamble obviously paid off as the 52 year old is now worth an estimated $150 million.
It should be noted that Moore received around $90 million from her divorce with Bruce Willis.
4. J.K Rowling
The author who penned the famous Harry Potter novel series , used to live on welfare and in U.K government
Rowling recalls times that <strong>she would not eat, because she could only afford to feed her daughter in an interview with dailymail.co.uk..
In 1995, her literary agent warned her stating:
"You do realize. you will never make a fortune out of writing children's books?"
As the story goes, Rowling had a four-hour delayed train trip to thank for her wealth. Apparently, while waiting for the train, the idea of a young boy attending wizard school appeared in her head. Now she's one of the richest celebrities in England and worth over $1 BILLION

3. Jim Carey
Jim Carrey was the youngest of four children and grew up lower middle class, until his father lost his job when he was a teenager. The family fell on hard times, lost their home and ended up living in their VW camper parked next to the tyre rim factory where they worked…
Jim dropped out of high school at the age of fifteen in order to work full time to help support his family. He worked
as a security guard, he was a janitor, a construction worker and a picture frame factory worker. Once his family became stable again, Carrey worked the comedy circuit, trying to become a stand up comic. He was eventually discovered by Rodney Dangerfield who helped Jim propel his stand up career.
Although he was becoming a popular stand up comic, Carrey turned his attention to film and television. After landing a role on the television show, In Living Color , in 1990, Jim's career took off.
Now, he's worth over $150 million..
2. Nicki Minaj..
Nicki Minaj grew up with an abusive, drug-addicted father who once set fire to the family's home in an attempt to kill her mother.
She lived in a poverty-stricken neighborhood in Queens, New York and according to her, she used to pray every night before bed to be rich so that she could take care of her mother and once said:
"My mother left my dad many different times and came back. He would beg, cry, stalk us… One time, he pulled my mother out of a car and dragged her for two blocks.
Anywhere my mother and I were, I made sure the door was locked, because that was my only way to protect her.
I guess her prayers were answered as she was introduced to rapper Lil Wayne, who launched her career. She's now worth over $60m..

1. Oprah Winfrey
Oprah is the definitely the ultimate rags to riches story as she came from a small pig farm in Kosciusko, Mississippi.. Her parents were unmarried teenage parents so she had to be raised by her grandmother until age six while her mother desperately searched for a job to support her family. Oprah was also unfortunately raped by a relative when she was only 9 years old and as a child, she was dressed in potato sacks..
But now she's worth over $2.9 billion, and is the first black woman billionaire in the world.
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