Not everyone is a nepo baby

Not everyone is rolled down the red carpet of Hollywood with a golden spoon and a wheelbarrow adorned with diamonds. For many actors, it was a struggle and toil to reach the top.

1. Tom Cruise
Not only did his strict Catholic family live in poverty, his father was also aggressive and violent.

2. Christina Aguilera
Her father had aggression problems and often hit his wife. Due to his job as an officer in the American army, the family had to move frequently. Eventually, her mother fled with her daughters to another city to provide Christina and her sisters with a safe childhood. Christina talks about her father's physical and emotional abuse.

3. Charlize Theron
She grew up in South Africa with an alcoholic and hot-tempered father. At fifteen, she witnessed her mother shoot her father in an attempt to defend herself.

4. Halle Berry
And again a father who beat the mother. Day after day after day. When she was four, her father left their home. She experienced a lot of discrimination, and when she moved to New York to pursue her acting career, she lived in a homeless shelter.

5. Oprah Winfrey
Do you know the saying ‘she can even wear a potato sack and still look good’? Well, Oprah was so poor that she actually wore a potato sack. Her mother was only 18 when she had her. She grew up in a poor and violent neighborhood and had a child herself at fourteen. That baby passed away, and she had to start working early to support herself. That was as a radio co-host, and it turned out to be the beginning of the rest of a beautiful life.