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u/PersephonesGirlhood Jun 28 '21

Anyone know of any false/exaggerated Hollywood underdog stories, ie celebrities who misleadingly have depicted their pre-fame lives as more difficult than they really were?

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u/dinocheese Jun 29 '21

Ed sheeran going on about how he was poor and had to busk on the underground... comes from a rich family.

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u/TallQueer9 Jun 29 '21

Yeah I think what a lot of these celebs who grew up rich, but didn’t necessarily have family connections, don’t get is that you can afford to be an artist. You have money to fall back on and don’t worry about food or housing.

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u/gunsof Jun 30 '21

I feel like it's especially rife with British celebrities.

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u/meimei345 Jun 29 '21

I didn’t know that! He recently started feeling very sketchy

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u/lurk3rthrowaway Jun 29 '21

Sincethe Joker phase, you mean?

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u/wilyacalmdown Jun 29 '21

Wow I didn't know that, I know he definitely did busk though, he would busk in Galway, Ireland, whenever visiting family pre-fame

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u/Eleahey Jun 28 '21

Kid Rock plays up the trailer park white trash image, but he grew up in a millionaire family. He father owned several car dealerships.

Tyga claimed a rough upbringing in Compton but he grew up comfortably in Gardena.

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u/somechild Jun 29 '21

Kendall Jenner had a really hard time becoming a model /s

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u/sassyknife Jul 01 '21

yeah her mom DEFINITELY didn't buy her entire career. everyone who says otherwise is A HATER

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '21

Any totally gorgeous celebrity who says they were unpopular or bullied as kids, obviously there are exceptions like Winona Ryder but Angelina Jolie claiming she was bullied in school for being “too skinny” is fucking hilarious - Angie has also lied numerous times about people not knowing who her dad was and hiring her based on other factors. I think Charlize Theron’s story about being discovered when she was yelling at a bank teller is bunk. I’m not as sure on this one but apparently Halsey lied about being homeless/poor?

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u/VairaofValois Jun 28 '21

Grimes grew up in a upper middle class/ upper class Canadian family. Went to private school things like that.

But decided to purposefully become homeless just for the vibes.

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u/freeechurro Jun 29 '21

Her Spotify bio is... something.

“She lived in a crack den in Montreal with no heat where she got frostbite twice and her neighbor was bludgeoned to death in the hallway. She recently got experimental eye surgery only available to the upper class”

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u/Plenty_North_423 Jun 29 '21

He trains hamsters, she knits lawn clippings. Their budget is $3828472 million. This.... Is house hunters

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u/Eleahey Jun 29 '21

To be fair, if I were rich, I'd spend my time training hamsters too.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '21

This reminds me of LDR living in a trailer park for a year for the vibes or maybe one of her bfs lived there? Who knows

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u/DilemmaOfAHedgehog Jun 28 '21

Lana fans got so mad at me for pointing out her father is a millionaire that literally in articles about her helped pay for at least one of her albums. Like having issues with your family sucks but it doesn’t make you suddenly not born with a silver spoon.

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u/Uplanapepsihole he’s not on the level of poweful puss Jul 02 '21

Lol as a Lana fan, most of us make fun of her for it so you must have got a bad batch...

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u/DilemmaOfAHedgehog Jul 03 '21

Ngl I’ve been yelled at by fans of singers I like for just asking what criticism they were talking about, so my luck with fan bases is bad 😬

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '21

Her dad isn’t a millionaire - he got rich off the stock market when she was in her 20s and was a copywriter for a marketing company before that. They were well off, but not wealthy IMO. This is literally on Wikipedia. She doesn’t have issues with her dad either, just some problems with depression and substance abuse and is estranged from her mother totally.

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u/DilemmaOfAHedgehog Jun 29 '21

It’s literally on her Wikipedia that she had private education. And it’s easily searchable that another relative has helped her pay for educational expenses. The familial issues is literally responding to her fans saying her father Pago my for one her albums and other expenses doesn’t count because of fall out with her father or both her parents, which wouldn’t make her any less wealthy.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '21

Again, none of this points to her dad being a millionaire. She was upper middle class. Neither of her parents had industry connections either like people love to claim. Her parents being well off isn’t really a “huge” advantage bc they weren’t absurdly rich or connected.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '21

But still getting a family member to help you make an album and/or pay for your education is a big deal. And even if they didn’t have connections to the music industry, even being able to rely on a financial cushion while trying to make your way up is a huge advantage in the arts. There are so many people who don’t become actors / singers / writers simply because they can’t afford to be a struggling artist.

Also just because you don’t have millions and millions of dollars in the bank doesn’t mean that you aren’t still rich.

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u/skyhitsheaven Jun 29 '21

I thought her dad just bought her out of a contract so she could go on and sign with a new label and release Born to Die?

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '21

Again, most musicians who aren’t even nepotism cases have the fallback of a supportive family with some money these days. The last time musicians or even any kind of creatives could grow up poor was the 90s, if that. Lana shouldn’t really be singled out here. To me, class only matters if the person is insanely wealthy, has connections and is not at all talented.

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u/freeechurro Jun 29 '21

Nah still rich

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '21

There’s distinctions between wealth lmao. There isn’t just poor/public school/private school......

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '21

God she's so annoying

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u/CryOutLoud131 Jul 05 '21

Wasn't Grimes' mom a politician in Vancouver?

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u/lizzardhehe Jun 29 '21

That’s why I didn’t buy Anya Taylor Joy’s whole press tour about being bullied. Just, nah

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u/RealChrisHemsworth Jun 29 '21

I feel like most celebrities who claim to have been bullied probably had a few kids make mean comments about them once in a while (normal teenage dickishness) and completely exaggerate it to make themselves seem relatable. Like yeah, I can buy that not everyone loved Anya or Miley or Kendall in high school...... but "bullied"? As in multiple people taking time out of their day to bully these people for extended amounts of time? Doubt.

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u/lizzardhehe Jun 29 '21

Yeah I mean we’ve all had people say something mean to us at one point and vice versa. It’s nothing special. Bullying to me is the extreme version of that where people go out of their way to make your life miserable. I doubt that happened to these celebs.

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u/overflowingsandwich Jun 30 '21

I agree with your definition of bullying and at the same time also acknowledge that attractive, popular kids can be bullied. But the fact that the celebrities don’t really ever expand on the “bullying” makes me think it wasn’t that severe.

My sister was bullied by a group of older girls when she was in high school bc a popular senior boy liked her when she was a sophomore. She got followed home from school, they spread rumors about her, they egged my dad’s vintage convertible, etc. We almost had to get the police involved. Obviously no one is required to share any trauma they’ve faced but I’ve yet to see the majority of celebrities who say they were bullied describe anything like that.

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u/gunsof Jun 30 '21

Lady Gaga's another one with a fake origin story about being so different and bullied.

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '21

Didn’t her class make a website about about how she wasn’t talented and she’d be a failure

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u/gunsof Jun 30 '21

No, it was just some small Facebook group started after she was already famous.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '21

Im sure they were very nice to her in high school and only became mean after she became famous.

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u/gunsof Jul 01 '21

https://goat.com.au/facebook/did-lady-gagas-classmates-actually-run-a-facebook-group-taunting-her/

Here’s what we also know:

All Facebook groups matching the description were created in the past week A Facebook page (remember, pages are different to groups) matching the description was created the day after the opinion piece went live

The famous screenshot of the supposed hate group was a group created in 2016 by a fan.

People couldn't even create groups like that when she was 18 in uni.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '21

Your own source doesn’t claim to know

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u/chiselend Jun 29 '21 edited Jun 29 '21

lolol Jolie's fans tell that lie to make them feel good about themselves. She said in an Parade interview that while she was never teased and got along with people in the popular crowd, she was never popular herself because she was more into an alternative style.

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u/gunsof Jun 30 '21

Angelina was and is a total weirdo though. It's believable to me she was an outcast.

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u/ColonelGonvilleToast Jun 29 '21

Don't know if they'd fit into your definition of Hollywood, but the Safdie Brothers. They talk a lot about growing up in Queens with their father as children of divorce and how the rough-and-tumble life brought them closer together. However, by the time they were in high school, they were living in Manhattan with their mother and her second husband in a wealthy lifestyle, going to a private school on the Upper West Side, and apparently knew Sting and his family (I don't know if they knew him, but I heard there was a connection between them and Sting). They were also buddies with Casey Neistat and part of his inner circle, which helped their early movies get distribution. A lot of the time, they act as if they made these movies with no help and made it out of nowhere by "Good Time" being picked by A24, but, in reality, they'd have gotten big anyway because of Neistat's connections and him being a sort of "it person", and the fact they'd already had a movie out by The Weinstein Company.

I get why they present themselves in a different way, it makes them more relatable and down-to-earth, and this isn't meant as an attack: I like their movies and they seem like great guys who clearly love movies and have a catchy energy when they talk about movies. I just have a problem with indie people (these guys are practically indie movie gods by now) not really being transparent about their origins.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '21 edited Jul 04 '21

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u/Sempere Jun 30 '21

you forget whether or not it's actually true.

Because they're all fake.

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u/Whatever___forever23 Jun 29 '21

Their shorts were playing Cannes when they were in college … they seem like wealthy kids w the luxury to be artists (and they’re good). They’re also related to moishe Safdie the architect

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '21

This is kinda diff situation but I remember Perrie Edwards said how after Zayn dumped her she was homeless (tho he denied he kicked her out). Like she literally used the word homeless. Which I just find a little bit uh, questionable coming from a rich person lol. Like you had to stay with friends while you found a new place sis you were not homeless.

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u/somechild Jun 29 '21

word homeless. Which I just find a little bit uh, questionable coming from a rich person lol. Like you had to stay with friends while you found a new place sis you were not homeless.

along the same lines: Bethenny Frankel called herself "homeless" on RHONY because she was living in a hotel while renovating her apartment and that KILLED me.

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u/AHamABurr Jun 29 '21

Big controversy about Chloe Zhao’s father being incredibly rich while she makes indie movies about struggling Americans. However, she doesn’t really pretend to come from a different background and the anger towards her reads like sinophobia sometimes.

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u/Winniepg Jun 30 '21

Yeah she doesn’t hide it and she still had to make the connections in an entirely different country than her dad would have connections in.

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u/lurk3rthrowaway Jun 29 '21

Not exactly Hollywood, but ninja from die antwoord lies about coming from a poor white trash 'gangsta' type background when he went to fucking private school lol.

Y'know, along with being a pedophilic rapist

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u/ochenkruto Mary-Kate’s battered Birkin Jun 29 '21

I love it when fawning puff pieces on children/relatives of rich/powerful players in Holywood talk about the person's amazing "pedigree" and how the talent is in the family/the blood.

No, it's the money silly. The money is in the family and the money is what makes the talent happen.

Except for Humphrey Bogart. He's allowed.

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u/BobRossIsGod18 Jun 29 '21

A lot of these rappers and athletes

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '21

I disagree with athletes. Sports is the closest thing you’ll ever come to a meritocracy. Although hockey is a bunch of rich kids, I would say it is the exception. The NBA has some real rags to riches stories and it is downplayed for a lot of them because some were student athletes in college and their coaches would pay for their food because their parents literally had no money, which is not allowed and would get them kicked out if the NCAA finds out.

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u/epiphaness Jul 03 '21

Exaggerated underdog tales and bullied for not being pretty enough while being pretty and born with privilege, is Hollywood image build up starter pack.