1. Oprah Winfrey
And the number one spot in the Wealthy Celebrities That Were Once Extremely Poor Top 10, is Oprah WInfrey!
Oprah was born on January 29, 1954 into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother, so yes, she wasn’t always as rich she is now.
She was later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighborhood, and experienced considerable hardship during her childhood.
Oprah stated that she was raped at age nine and became pregnant at 14, her son dying of infancy.
At the age of 14 she started working in radio, after moving with her father in Tennessee, and later on began co-anchoring the local evening news at the age of 19..
Now with a net worth of approximately $2.9 billion, and her own cable network, Oprah Winfrey started from rock bottom, and it’s the perfect example that with hard work and a huge ambition, you can become anything you want.
So these were the 10 Wealthy Celebrities That Were Once Extremely Poor!
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