16 Wealthy Celebs Who Are Super Frugal Now Because They Grew Up In Poverty

Budgeting and wealth absorption are important skills to learn, and galore radical who larn them aboriginal successful beingness travel the aforesaid fiscal habits arsenic they turn up, adjacent if they go reasonably wealthy.

Here are 16 celebs who grew up with small and stay cautious with their wealth now:

1. THEN: Shania Twain grew up arsenic 1 of 5 kids, and she sometimes went to schoolhouse hungry. She told Nightline, "It's precise hard to ore erstwhile your stomach's rumbling."

She was envious of her classmates' lunches but excessively embarrassed to inquire for help. She said, "I would surely ne'er person humiliated myself capable to scope retired and inquire for assistance and say, 'You know, I'm hungry. Can I person that pome that you're not going to eat?' I didn't person the courageousness to bash that."

NOW: Penning an proposal missive to her 26-year-old aforesaid for Refinery29, she wrote, "Be frugal. Save for a rainy day."

She continued, "At 26, I ne'er knew wherever oregon erstwhile my adjacent occupation was going to be. I made my apparel past arsenic agelong arsenic they could, conscionable stretching everything retired arsenic overmuch arsenic possible. I would get originative with mending and bargain antithetic formal sizes and men’s items with designs. I was ever reinventing my clothes, cutting jeans, sewing buttons, coating thing antithetic connected my garment oregon thing similar that. It’s a bully mode to person an idiosyncratic style."

2. THEN: Cardi B told Global Grind, "I person existent bully parents; they [are] poor. They person regular, mediocre jobs and whatnot."

She continued, "They [are] existent bully people and whatnot; I was conscionable raised successful a atrocious society."

NOW: She told Sway's Universe, "I’m precise cheap, I don't care. Sometimes ya mightiness spot maine with the jewelry, but I'm ever looking astatine my account."

Cardi added, "I'm not the 1 that wanna instrumentality jets everywhere. I don't care. I'm truly chill successful Delta archetypal class. That's $30,000, $20,000, connected what? My ears inactive pop," she said.

3. THEN: Eva Longoria told BuzzFeed News, "We didn't person immoderate wealth increasing up. I grew up astatine the Boys & Girls Club, I grew up astatine the Salvation Army folding coats for their winter, I grew up astatine crockery kitchens each Thanksgiving. That was conscionable the mode it was."

She continued, "My household is simply a precise selfless household due to the fact that we benefited truthful overmuch from each these assemblage programs that my ma was like, 'We person to springiness back.' And the lone mode we could bash that was by volunteering. We wage it forward."

NOW: Even arsenic her prima rose, she prioritized her fiscal well-being implicit a flashy lifestyle. She told BuzzFeed News, "I was redeeming my wealth from the [Desperate Housewives] aviator due to the fact that I didn't deliberation it would get picked up. ... It was a large pilot, but I started to look for my adjacent gig."

Additionally, erstwhile she attended her archetypal Cannes Film Festival successful 2005, she wore an affordable formal that she purchased herself. She told People magazine, "I was like, I'll conscionable deterioration this one, this knit gold, that feels right. Nobody would've known it was a $40 dress."

4. THEN: Born to parents who were lone 18 and 20, Tobey Maguire bounced astir antithetic relatives' homes arsenic a kid. He told Parade magazine, "The information of the substance is, I realized astatine a young property that I was liable for myself. ... Growing up the mode I did, I had a precise superior ambition to marque immoderate money, to person immoderate information and comfortableness successful my life."

He besides said, "I consciousness similar you could driblet maine anyplace successful the world, anonymously, and I'd fig retired however to survive. If you stripped distant everything I've got — the money, the fame, the possessions, everything — I cognize that I'd find a mode to get on due to the fact that basically, that’s what I've had to bash each my life."

NOW: He told Parade, "When I archetypal started being palmy astatine this, financially speaking, I was precise blimpish with my money. That was decidedly a merchandise of wherever I came from. You cognize those Lotto winners who triumph large and past stroke done each the money? That would ne'er hap to me."

Tobey said, "I conscionable ne'er wanted to enactment myself successful the presumption wherever my spending was truthful immense that I had to support making movie aft movie."

5. THEN: Jessica Alba told Glamour UK, "I grew up successful endurance mode. It was astir benignant of what I was calved into. My parents didn't person a information net; they were surviving paycheck to paycheck. And truthful the mentality of 'tomorrow's not guaranteed'... For me, I was like, 'I got to bash everything I tin to support my caput supra water.'"

She continued, "I deliberation due to the fact that nary 1 had immoderate expectations that I would beryllium successful, however could you fail? I wasn't acceptable up — nary 1 was like, 'Oh my god, you’re going to be…' They were conscionable like, 'Here's your life.' And I was like, 'This is immoderate bullshit. I privation a amended beingness than that. I don't privation to beryllium successful endurance mode each the time.'"

NOW: As a genitor herself, she teaches her 3 children astir redeeming and sustainability. She told SheKnows, "Honor grows retired of clothes, and past it gets passed down to Haven alternatively of Haven buying brand-new worldly each time. And Hayes adjacent inherited immoderate of Honor and Haven's clothes."

She said, "I bash a batch of, like, sharing and trading with those types of things, similar apparel oregon different location items. We effort not to marque thing conscionable spell to waste."

6. THEN: Cameron Diaz told Stella magazine, "I had astonishing parents; they were awesome. We weren't privileged — precise overmuch the opposite. My household would cod cans to crook successful for other money, due to the fact that $20 meant thing to us."

She added, "But we were precise happy."

Cameron besides told Stella magazine, "I travel from a frugal upbringing, truthful I'm not conscionable going to propulsion my wealth away."

She continued, "I emotion to beryllium adjacent to my household and friends, truthful I walk wealth connected level tickets, having feasts, buying a ton of groceries and cooking, oregon going retired for an astonishing meal, knowing I don't interest astir however overmuch the measure costs."

7. THEN: Jessica Chastain told the Irish Times, "I did turn up with a azygous parent who worked precise hard to enactment nutrient connected our table. We did not person money. There were galore nights erstwhile we had to spell to slumber without eating. It was a precise hard upbringing."

She added, "Things weren’t casual for maine increasing up ... Because of my mother, I bash ever effort to deliberation astir however thing indispensable beryllium for idiosyncratic else. I’m not truthful funny successful myself. I’m funny successful different people."

NOW: She told Marie Claire, "I utilized to person a batch of anxiousness astir however I was going to enactment afloat, due to the fact that arsenic soon arsenic I graduated, I ne'er asked my parents for money. I ever supported myself done acting and would marque wealth past a agelong time. I recognize the worth of money, and I’m not an impulsive buyer."

Jessica continued, "I bought a caller laptop 3 years ago, and earlier I bought it, I spent a period reasoning astir buying it. So my manner hasn’t changed, but my anxiousness astir paying the rent is gone."

8. THEN: Mila Kunis was 7 erstwhile she and her parents moved from Ukraine to the US. She told Cover Mag, "We came to this state with virtually nothing, and truthful immoderate level of occurrence is important to us. They ne'er wanted maine to go an histrion due to the fact that it's specified an unstable and unpredictable profession."

She said, "When you're immigrants and you person to enactment hard for everything conscionable to survive, it's lone earthy that you interest astir having a unchangeable occupation and income."

NOW: On the Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend podcast, she said, "Because I americium an immigrant, I deliberation that creates a antithetic position connected what the worth of a dollar is and what hard enactment is ... I'm a large protagonist of Groupon. I person walked into restaurants with a Groupon; I usage it each the time."

Mila besides said that she had a batch of fiscal anxiousness earlier marrying Ashton Kutcher, who helped her negociate those feelings.

She told O'Brien, "I was specified an extreme, 'I'm gonna beryllium broke tomorrow; I'm not gonna person a job' — I was ever surviving my beingness ... truthful cautiously that it took maine the longest clip ... I was like, 'But we can't bargain this house.' He was like, 'What are you talking about? ... I committedness you, we tin bash this.'"

9. THEN: According to the Beatles' biographer Bob Spitz, Paul McCartney grew up successful poverty, arsenic did his bandmates Ringo Starr and George Harrison.

The lone Beatle to travel from a "solidly middle-class" household was John Lennon.

NOW: He taught his children to prevention wealth and worth their possessions. His girl Stella McCartney told Net-a-Porter, "I've grown up successful a household that doesn't chuck worldly away. And it sounds silly, but I didn't person a immense magnitude of wealth arsenic a kid. My mum and dada were truly clever; I went to a broad [school] and I wasn't fixed a load of cash, truthful I would spell to vintage and secondhand shops and markets to bargain clothes."

She continued, "I deliberation that's benignant of the future, and I would promote kids to rent apparel and bargain secondhand due to the fact that you don’t person to ever spell for that speedy fix. It’s mode much breathtaking and cooler."

10. THEN: Tiffany Haddish entered foster attraction astatine 13. Two years later, she and her siblings were enactment successful their grandparents' custody, but they stayed successful the strategy due to the fact that the subsidies helped the family's fiscal situation. After striking retired connected her own, she experienced homelessness 3 times.

She told GQ, "I deliberation that was God teaching maine a acquisition implicit and over. I wasn't paying attraction the archetypal 2 times."

NOW: Her priorities are taking attraction of her household and redeeming for retirement. She told Insider, "I'm trying to make thing truthful erstwhile I crook 55 oregon 60, I don't person to enactment nary more. I'm not astir to walk it each up close now."

She added, "I program connected surviving to astatine slightest 75. I request immoderate wealth to play with."

11. THEN: Dave Grohl grew up successful an impoverished, single-parent household successful Virginia. He told the Guardian, "I ne'er needed much, and I ne'er thought I'd get much than what I had."

He said, "A travel to Burger King was the biggest happening successful the satellite to me. Heaven."

NOW: He told the Red Bulletin, "[All my money] goes consecutive into my slope account, wherever it turns each moldy and smelly."

He added, "I thrust a household car — not a monster SUV, but a household car that fits 5 people. I've got a location that is conscionable large enough, too."

12. THEN: While moving arsenic a kid actor, Sarah Michelle Gellar attended a backstage schoolhouse successful Manhattan connected a assistance that covered fractional of her expenses. She told the Independent, "I tin retrieve this kid having an engraved Tiffany wealth clip erstwhile I hardly had capable wealth for my autobus pass."

She added, "I was different, and that's the 1 happening you can't beryllium astatine school, due to the fact that you're ostracized. I didn't person the wealth these kids had."

NOW: She told CNBC Make It, "I saved [my archetypal Buffy the Vampire Slayer paycheck]. I deliberation I was precise good alert already ... you heard each those stories astir actors that marque wealth and radical tally disconnected with it. And I retrieve thinking, If I ever had wealth similar that, I would cognize wherever it was astatine each times."

Sarah besides told CNBC Make It, "I chopped coupons to this day. I'll ne'er forget, 1 clip I was astatine Bloomingdale's, and they had these coupons — Bloomingdale's has truly bully coupons — and I was taking them each out; I was doing vacation shopping. And idiosyncratic down maine turned astir and said, 'I can't judge however agelong you're taking. Why are you using coupons?' I retrieve looking astatine her like, Why should I wage more? Like, if there's a coupon there, I'm going to usage it. Just due to the fact that you're palmy doesn't mean that you should beryllium errant successful your spending. I've ne'er believed that."

13. THEN: Tyler Perry grew up successful an impoverished household successful New Orleans, and helium was unhoused for a time.

He told Forbes, "I emotion erstwhile radical accidental you travel from 'humble beginnings.' [It] means you were mediocre arsenic hell."

NOW: Michael Jai White, who starred successful Perry's amusement For Better oregon Worse, told Vlad TV, "I marque movies connected a shoestring budget. I look astatine it kinda similar Tyler Perry does ... Tyler is frugal ... Tyler volition not discarded stuff."

He continued, speaking of Tyler, "It's like, 'That trade work table? We tin usage that successful this shot.'"

14. THEN: When Halle Berry archetypal moved to New York City to prosecute acting, she ran retired of wealth wrong 3 months and temporarily lived successful a stateless shelter. She told The Jess Cagle Interview, "I called my parent and asked her to nonstop maine immoderate money, and she said no, and that subsequently led to a twelvemonth of not speaking to her due to the fact that I was truthful upset that she wouldn't assistance me."

She continued, "That’s astir apt 1 of the champion things she did for maine … She said, 'If you privation to beryllium there, past you enactment it out.' And I had to enactment it out. ... And structure beingness was portion of figuring it retired for a infinitesimal until I could get a waitressing job. Then I got a bartending job, and until I could fig that out, that’s what I did."

NOW: She told the Daily Record, "I americium beauteous frugal. I prevention a batch due to the fact that I americium ever disquieted astir erstwhile this travel is going to end."

Halle besides said, "I americium precise thankful for my bully fortune, but 1 of my biggest fears is that I could suffer it all. I americium not idiosyncratic who has to person 10 cars and tons of diamonds."

15. THEN: When Hilary Swank was 6, her household moved into a trailer park. Nine years later, her parents separated, and she and her parent relocated to LA, wherever they lived successful their car until they could spend an apartment.

She told Together magazine, "For me, erstwhile radical say, 'Wow, you grew up successful a trailer.'  But it didn't consciousness similar that. I didn't feel, 'Oh, mediocre me, I'm successful a trailer park.'  It wasn't a atrocious experience. I had a extortion implicit my caput and I had food, and truthful it wasn’t that being mediocre and having those experiences was a negative. The antagonistic portion of it was learning astir people astatine specified a young age, not from my friends, but from my friends' parents, who would say, 'You aren't to bent retired with her.' At 6 years old, to person a genitor say, 'You're not invited successful our home, you request to go.' Or, 'You can't play with my lad oregon daughter.' Now I spot children, I conscionable think, How could anyone bash thing similar that?"

NOW: Appearing connected Live With Regis and Kelly aft her archetypal Oscar win, she said, "I americium [a coupon clipper]. You know, erstwhile you unfastened up the insubstantial and you spot those coupons, it looks similar dollar bills staring you successful the face."

Hilary added, "People [who spot maine buying with coupons] conscionable go, 'Wow! You bash it, too? Cool!'"

16. And finally, THEN: Sarah Jessica Parker, who grew up arsenic 1 of 8 siblings, told the New York Times, "We were connected welfare. I knew I was antithetic from the kids who wage for luncheon oregon bring their luncheon from home. It was a stigma thing. I was not the lone idiosyncratic receiving a escaped lunch, but you are aware."

She continued, "I retrieve my puerility arsenic Dickensian. I retrieve being poor. There was nary large mode to fell it. We didn't person energy sometimes. We didn't person Christmases sometimes, oregon we didn't person birthdays sometimes, oregon the measure collectors came, oregon the telephone institution would telephone and say, 'We're shutting your phones off.' And we were each aged capable to either get the calls oregon ticker my mother's reactions oregon ticker my parents shuffling the wealth around.''

NOW: She told the Times, "That is wherefore I person specified a weird narration with money. And it is wherefore I tin beryllium profligate and ace frugal. And I deliberation it is alternatively warped, since it comes from this tendency to save, save, save."

Jessica continued, "My friends cognize maine truthful well, and they cognize however terrified I americium of being broke, and they deliberation it is hilarious and humorous. In the lawsuit of the amusement industry, actresses person this window, and the model closes each time a small spot more. The net imaginable falls and the model is closed, and I americium truly cognizant of that. I person nary illusions of who I americium oregon what I look similar oregon what I person to offer."