2. J.K. Rowling
Yes, the British novelist that wrote Harry Potter is one of the Wealthy Celebrities That Were Once Extremely Poor!
Born on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, the famous author of the Harry Potter series is the daughter of Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling.
When she found herself a single mother and living on welfare in the U.K., she wrote by hand in cafes with her baby by her side, because she was not able to afford a typewriter.
With a net worth of approximately $1 billion, there were times when Rowling would not eat, because she could only afford to feed her daughter.
But she hit the jackpot when she wrote “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” in 1997 and from there on it went all up.
