Halle Berry
Actress Halle Berry was born into a broken family in Cleveland, Ohio. Her father was a violent man who abused her mother for years, and that marked her childhood.
Her beginnings aren't easy and no one becomes an actress overnight, so when young Berry moved to New York in 1989 to try her luck, she spent all of her savings before finding a role. Desperate and penniless, the young Ella survived thanks to the help and food provided at the homeless and homeless shelter. A few weeks later she landed her first role in a television series.
Jay Z
Today the name of rapper, producer, and businessman Jay Z is synonymous with success and wealth, but it wasn't always like that. Before succeeding, Shawn Corey Carter, as he is called, was born in 1969 in the poorest part of Brooklyn, New York surrounded by misery and crime. He recently admitted with shame that in the beginning, he trafficked drugs to get ahead.
Leonardo DiCaprio
After the presentation of the film "The Wolf of Wall Street", DiCaprio opened up to the cameras talking about his childhood in Hollywood. The young man grew up surrounded by the luxury and decadence of cinema, including all the vices that move behind the scenes.
Jim Carrey
Actor and comedian Jim Carrey grew up in Newmarket, Canada as a normal boy until his family fell into serious financial trouble and he had to drop out of school at the age of 15 to work as a janitor and take care of the family. His acting career was full of challenges, failing miserably in his first performances before the public. With time, the family situation improved and Carrey was able to devote himself to polishing his technique and improving his artistic skills, time was very well spent judging by the success he achieved after him as a comedian.
Oprah Winfrey
The daughter of a single mother and teenager, Oprah grew up in the poorest and most dangerous neighborhoods in the cities of Mississippi and Milwaukee where she was S- assaulted when she was still a child.
Today she is a true magnate of the American media thanks to the support and advice of her grandmother, who encouraged her since she was a child to develop her public speaking skills.
JK Rowling
Today she is one of the richest women in England, but in the past, she had to survive thanks to the social benefits that the government provided her. Abandoned by her husband, she had to raise her son as a single mother. Rowling began writing after overcoming a severe depression, which she admits was instrumental in inspiring some aspects of Harry Potter's life and his magical universe.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Although actor and former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger grew up in a fairly wealthy family in Austria, when he immigrated to the United States, he had next to nothing. In the late 1960s, he began working as a bricklayer to pay for his career as a bodybuilder, a muscular body that would help him land his first roles and succeed on the big screen.
Eminem
The rapper Eminem is today one of the most influential and successful artists of the last decades, but his origins were not easy. Eminem grew up in an unstable home, being his mother and he fostered in the home of various relatives when his father abandoned them. Although he lived in Michigan and Missouri, much of his youth was spent in Detroit, where he was often intimidated by the gangs that populated his neighborhood.
In his teens, he began rapping at open-mic sessions on the outskirts of town, facing discrimination in a predominantly African-American industry.
Joan Rivers
The one who was one of the greatest representatives of luxury, cosmetic surgery, and Hollywood glamor, she began her career as a comedian in seedy clubs and strip bars.
Selma Blair
Although she grew up in a normal family in Detroit, when she left for New York she was forced to beg to get by. At 20 years old and penniless, she spent many nights in "the Salvation Army shelter" before becoming one of America's biggest indie film actresses.
