This actor had dropped out of college and became a discount ticket salesman. He then lived out of a tent in Maui
Chris Pratt
Her mother had given birth to her when she was just 16, and she struggled to support them both. She claims they frequently ate dollar store spaghetti for dinner and had to look for quarters just to pay for gas.
Selena Gomez
Worked As A Telemarketer And Hated It, He Only Made One Sale - And Promptly Talked The Customer Out Of The Purchase
Johnny Depp
Born in Ukraine, she and her family fled to the US as the Soviet Union fell. She and her family had such a shortage of food that she claims that she was forced to eat "ketchup soup" as a child.
Mila Kunis
Was A Hairdresser For Corpses, He Would Style Women's Hair To Make Them Look Beautiful Before They Went Six Feet Under
Danny Devito
He Used To Be A Gym Teacher
Hugh Jackman
Her childhood was deeply affected by her father's alcoholism and crack cocaine addiction, which contributed to her parents' strained marriage. Her father used to physically abuse her mother, and she would try to get in between them to break up fights.
Rihanna
Growing up, he lived on the verge of poverty with his abusive father, who could barely hold a job. His mother eventually had to work three jobs to support him and his three sisters. By the time he was 12, his parents had divorced, and he had studied at 15 different schools, which had all been a struggle due to constant bullying and dyslexia.
Tom Cruise
Her pre-acting jobs was as a mortuary beautician where, as she explained, she "did hair and makeup for dead people."
Whoopi Goldberg
He was A Lion Tamer, He Was 16 At The Time And Would Perform With A Lioness Named Sheba
Christopher Walken
As a child, he was "surrounded by drugs." His father, a drug addict, allowed him to use marijuana at age six, an incident which his father later said he regretted
Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man)
He grew up during the Great Depression, harvesting cotton at his family's farmhouse in Dyess, Arkansas. When he was 12, his older brother was mangled by an open table saw that almost cut him in half and had died about a week later, deeply changing his forever. After serving in the Air Force, he sold appliances before scoring a recording contract at Sun Records.
Johnny Cash
During his youth,his family became homeless and he was forced to live in a tent by Lake Ontario. They all became janitors and security guards in return for housing across from the tire factory where they worked.
Jim Carrey
She served in the Isreali Armed Forces
Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman)
He Used To Dress Up As A Chicken For An El Pollo Loco Restaurant In Hollywood
Brad Pitt
She moved to New York to pursue acting, she ended up living in a homeless shelter before being cast in the spin-off of Who's the Boss?
Halle Berry
He is a well-known rapper but before the fame, he had it tough living in Harlem, New York. Before he lived in an apartment with his family, they lived in a homeless shelter for awhile because his parents couldn't afford to live on their own.
A$AP Rocky
He used and sold drugs and had gotten into many violent fights, some of them hate crimes and one of them putting him in prison for attempted murder.
Mark Wahlberg
She spent her childhood moving to different cities with her family. Her mother, a suicidal alcoholic, used to drag her to bars when she was still a teenager and had let a man sexually assault her for $500.
Demi Moore
She worked at a smoothie shop in Florida before becoming an actress. Although she said she mostly worked behind the register, she would sometimes have to dress up as a giant banana and stand by the highway to attract customers.
Megan Fox
He was raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee, by his factory worker mother and his grandparents, and he had attended many segregated schools. Following MLK's assassination, he began fighting for equal rights and had actually been arrested for holding multiple people hostage, demanding reform at their college.
Samuel L Jackson
He lived in a trailer park with his mom before moving into a rundown house in a bad neighborhood in Detroit
Eminem
Growing up in East Hollywood, his mother worked as a secretary while his father wrote and sold underground comics. He claims he saw crime and violence around every corner of where he lived
Leonardo DiCaprio
She was born into poverty to a single teenage mom, was molested as a child and a teenager, and became pregnant at age 14 with a child who died after being born prematurely.
Oprah Winfrey
He Was An Ice Cream Scooper At Baskin Robbins
Barack Obama