Latest / Johnjay & Rich On Demand / Celebrities that are SELF MADE
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Did you guys see that story in the news Paris
- 0:01Speaker 1: Hilton said she was self made?
- 0:03Speaker 2: No, I didn't see that.
- 0:05Speaker 3: Meanwhile, her family is the Hilton hotel. Yeah, I mean
- 0:08Speaker 3: that's not self made. That's a that's about as rich
- 0:10Speaker 3: as you get.
- 0:10Speaker 4: Right.
- 0:11Speaker 1: So she's like, even though my family is the hotel chain,
- 0:15Speaker 1: She's like, I made myself famous for doing whatever whatever right.
- 0:18Speaker 1: But I don't think anyone would have Carrid who she
- 0:20Speaker 1: was if she wasn't the daughter of the hotel being
- 0:22Speaker 1: so it's hard.
- 0:23Speaker 4: I think there's a line there.
- 0:25Speaker 3: She's a hustler.
- 0:26Speaker 1: I did my research that I found out these are
- 0:28Speaker 1: here's a bunch of actresses and actors or actresses, oh,
- 0:32Speaker 1: and actress that were that are self made Zendaya. She
- 0:38Speaker 1: decided to pursue acting. Her mom picked up two jobs
- 0:41Speaker 1: so her dad could take her to La I.
- 0:44Speaker 2: Love that story and how her parents were always there
- 0:48Speaker 2: with her all the time, Like her parents never allowed
- 0:50Speaker 2: for her to be in a room with an adult
- 0:52Speaker 2: by herself, because you see all of these child actors
- 0:55Speaker 2: get taken advantage of.
- 0:56Speaker 1: Do you know how much I know that's a true
- 0:58Speaker 1: story because she was in here and both her parents
- 1:00Speaker 1: sat right there behind you.
- 1:01Speaker 2: Why do you guys like to brag about all the
- 1:03Speaker 2: fun people?
- 1:04Speaker 3: Before I was here, she was singing too, and it
- 1:06Speaker 3: was amazing.
- 1:07Speaker 4: Jealous Halle Berry self made.
- 1:09Speaker 1: She ran out of money while pursuing acting in New
- 1:11Speaker 1: York City and had to live in a homeless shelter.
- 1:14Speaker 1: Then she worked as a waitress and a bartender, and
- 1:16Speaker 1: now she's an Academy Award winner.
- 1:17Speaker 2: That's incredible.
- 1:18Speaker 1: Jenna Ortega. Her mom worked as an er nurse, but
- 1:21Speaker 1: would drive her to LA for auditions. Jenna says it
- 1:24Speaker 1: was like six or seven hour round trip, and her
- 1:26Speaker 1: mom had five other kids.
- 1:27Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, these.
- 1:29Speaker 1: Are celebrities were actually self made, very the opposite of
- 1:33Speaker 1: what Paris Hilton said.
- 1:34Speaker 4: Right.
- 1:35Speaker 1: Toby Maguire Spider Man. His parents were eighteen and twenty
- 1:38Speaker 1: when they had him, and he bounced around living with different.
- 1:40Speaker 4: Relatives growing up.
- 1:42Speaker 3: Wow, I do know that.
- 1:44Speaker 4: Cameron Diaz, she had a frugal upbringing.
- 1:46Speaker 1: Her parents would collect cans to recycle to get extra
- 1:49Speaker 1: extra cash. Shania Twain she grew up as one of
- 1:53Speaker 1: five kids and sometimes went to school hungry.
- 1:55Speaker 3: Oh yeah, then her parents died and she had to
- 1:57Speaker 3: take care of her, her little brothers and sisters.
- 2:00Speaker 4: Allardi. You guys know, his story not a story.
- 2:03Speaker 1: Even though we got a break in the movie The
- 2:05Speaker 1: Kissing Booth, he struggled to book rolls after he even
- 2:08Speaker 1: ended up living in his car. A producer for Euphoria
- 2:10Speaker 1: helped him get a hotel room when they were filming
- 2:13Speaker 1: the pilot episode.
- 2:15Speaker 3: Was huge, huge for.
- 2:17Speaker 1: Him because he's now I heard it is that Frankenstein movie,
- 2:19Speaker 1: and I heard it's fantastic.
- 2:21Speaker 2: I didn't start it because I was like, you don't
- 2:23Speaker 2: look like Frankenstein.
- 2:24Speaker 1: She doesn't look like Cardi b someone else who is
- 2:27Speaker 1: self made. Her parents were poor. She was raised in
- 2:30Speaker 1: a bad society. She said she used to work as
- 2:32Speaker 1: a stripper to make ends meet. Yea, a beep never
- 2:34Speaker 1: gets called Selena Gomez. Her mom had her when she
- 2:37Speaker 1: was sixteen. She had to work three jobs, and she
- 2:40Speaker 1: made her acting debut on Barney and Friends Viola Davis.
- 2:45Speaker 4: She spent her childhood in poverty.
- 2:47Speaker 1: She studied acting at Young People's School for Performing Arts,
- 2:50Speaker 1: Rhode Island College, and Juilliard.
- 2:52Speaker 3: Oh, she's an Academy Award winner too, right. I believe
- 2:55Speaker 3: she's awesome.
- 2:56Speaker 1: So those are actresses and actors that were actually self made,
- 3:00Speaker 1: unlike not the bag on Paris Hilton.
- 3:02Speaker 4: But I mean, I don't think you can say you're
- 3:03Speaker 4: self made.
- 3:04Speaker 3: She was not living in her car from which to cheers.
- 3:07Speaker 1: Stay with like a lot of the Kardashians too, you know,
- 3:09Speaker 1: they get actually all the Kardashians because her dad, their
- 3:11Speaker 1: dad was famous anyway, so they go, those are celebs
- 3:15Speaker 1: that are self made. And if you are self made, congratulations.
- 3:18Speaker 1: In fact, if you are self made, what a self
- 3:21Speaker 1: made meant?
- 3:22Speaker 3: You came from nothing and now.
- 3:23Speaker 4: You're now you're what, Well, how do you know you're something?
- 3:25Speaker 3: I mean, I guess there's there's maybe your own scale, Like.
- 3:28Speaker 2: Maybe someone calls up and they're like, I'm self made
- 3:30Speaker 2: and I made it on the Forbes List. I was
- 3:31Speaker 2: gonna say, We're like, you have your own Wikipedia page.
- 3:33Speaker 2: I feel like you made it if you have that.
- 3:35Speaker 4: Rich has a Wikipedia page.
- 3:38Speaker 1: Rich Paras self made a self made according to Wikipedia
- 3:42Speaker 1: self madefile.
- 3:48Speaker 3: Made.
- 3:50Speaker 1: No, if you're self made, want to hear from you,
- 3:52Speaker 1: text us, text JJR and tell us your story to
- 3:54Speaker 1: ninety six and eight ninety three