6. Jim Carrey
Yes, Jim Carrey is one of the Wealthy Celebrities That Were Once Extremely Poor!
Born in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada on January 17, 1962, James Eugene Carrey is the son of a homemaker and a musician and accountant.
In an interview with James Lipton on Inside the Actors Studio, he said:
“My father was a musician who got a “regular job” to support his children. When he lost his job that’s when everything fell apart. We went from “lower middle class” to “poor”.”
With a net worth of approximately $150 million, you would have never expected for Jim Carrey to live in a van right? But he did, and at the age of 15 he started to work as a janitor to support his family.
But after all that hard times, Carrey started working as a stand up comic, and eventually ending up in the film industry.
