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30 Celebrities Who Went From Rags to Riches
Andrew Lisa
February 12, 2021, 5:00 PM
Joaquin Phoenix, winner of the award for best performance by an actor in a leading role for Joker , poses in the press room at the Oscars, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles92nd Academy Awards - Press Room, Los Angeles, USA - 09 Feb 2020.
Rags-to-riches stories inspire hope and remind even the most down-and-out dreamers that hard work, positivity and perseverance sometimes do pay off no matter how hard the road might seem. In America’s celebrity culture, there is no shortage of superstars with rags-to-riches backgrounds and stories of poverty, trauma and hardship that had to be overcome. Take a look at celebrities who started off on the wrong foot and still made it big.