Celebrities that are SELF MADE

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Did you guys see that story in the news Paris

(00:01):
Hilton said she was self made?

Speaker 2 (00:03):
No, I didn't see that.

Speaker 3 (00:05):
Meanwhile, her family is the Hilton hotel. Yeah, I mean
that's not self made. That's a that's about as rich
as you get.

Speaker 4 (00:10):
Right.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
So she's like, even though my family is the hotel chain,
She's like, I made myself famous for doing whatever whatever right.
But I don't think anyone would have Carrid who she
was if she wasn't the daughter of the hotel being
so it's hard.

Speaker 4 (00:23):
I think there's a line there.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
She's a hustler.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
I did my research that I found out these are
here's a bunch of actresses and actors or actresses, oh,
and actress that were that are self made Zendaya. She
decided to pursue acting. Her mom picked up two jobs
so her dad could take her to La I.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Love that story and how her parents were always there
with her all the time, Like her parents never allowed
for her to be in a room with an adult
by herself, because you see all of these child actors
get taken advantage of.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Do you know how much I know that's a true
story because she was in here and both her parents
sat right there behind you.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Why do you guys like to brag about all the
fun people?

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Before I was here, she was singing too, and it
was amazing.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
Jealous Halle Berry self made.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
She ran out of money while pursuing acting in New
York City and had to live in a homeless shelter.
Then she worked as a waitress and a bartender, and
now she's an Academy Award winner.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
That's incredible.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Jenna Ortega. Her mom worked as an er nurse, but
would drive her to LA for auditions. Jenna says it
was like six or seven hour round trip, and her
mom had five other kids.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Oh my gosh, these.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Are celebrities were actually self made, very the opposite of
what Paris Hilton said.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Toby Maguire Spider Man. His parents were eighteen and twenty
when they had him, and he bounced around living with different.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
Relatives growing up.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Wow, I do know that.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
Cameron Diaz, she had a frugal upbringing.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Her parents would collect cans to recycle to get extra
extra cash. Shania Twain she grew up as one of
five kids and sometimes went to school hungry.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Oh yeah, then her parents died and she had to
take care of her, her little brothers and sisters.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
Allardi. You guys know, his story not a story.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Even though we got a break in the movie The
Kissing Booth, he struggled to book rolls after he even
ended up living in his car. A producer for Euphoria
helped him get a hotel room when they were filming
the pilot episode.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Was huge, huge for.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Him because he's now I heard it is that Frankenstein movie,
and I heard it's fantastic.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
I didn't start it because I was like, you don't
look like Frankenstein.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
She doesn't look like Cardi b someone else who is
self made. Her parents were poor. She was raised in
a bad society. She said she used to work as
a stripper to make ends meet. Yea, a beep never
gets called Selena Gomez. Her mom had her when she
was sixteen. She had to work three jobs, and she
made her acting debut on Barney and Friends Viola Davis.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
She spent her childhood in poverty.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
She studied acting at Young People's School for Performing Arts,
Rhode Island College, and Juilliard.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
Oh, she's an Academy Award winner too, right. I believe
she's awesome.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
So those are actresses and actors that were actually self made,
unlike not the bag on Paris Hilton.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
But I mean, I don't think you can say you're
self made.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
She was not living in her car from which to cheers.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Stay with like a lot of the Kardashians too, you know,
they get actually all the Kardashians because her dad, their
dad was famous anyway, so they go, those are celebs
that are self made. And if you are self made, congratulations.
In fact, if you are self made, what a self
made meant?

Speaker 3 (03:22):
You came from nothing and now.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
You're now you're what, Well, how do you know you're something?

Speaker 3 (03:25):
I mean, I guess there's there's maybe your own scale, Like.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Maybe someone calls up and they're like, I'm self made
and I made it on the Forbes List. I was
gonna say, We're like, you have your own Wikipedia page.
I feel like you made it if you have that.

Speaker 4 (03:35):
Rich has a Wikipedia page.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Rich Paras self made a self made according to Wikipedia
self madefile.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
Made.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
No, if you're self made, want to hear from you,
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