Why do celebs want to be poor so badly?

2.Despite how he was portrayed inStraight Outta Compton,Ice Cubewasn’t actually from Compton.

He then earned a degree in architectural drafting.

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Manycolleagueshave questioned his street cred.

It was the first show that didn’t make me feel bad about myself."

However, the backstory feels shaky at best.

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He also said they’d skip Christmas and had no heat.

They likely didn’t celebrate Christmas because his mother was a Jehovah’s Witness.

Hewasdescribed by the New Yorker as “middle class.”

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5.Bob Dylan has been caught in more than a few lies about his childhood.

None of this is true.

His father reportedly had a second home in Jupiter Island, Florida.

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In London, heeven saidhe used to sleep in an arch with a heating duct outside Buckingham Palace.

He even wrote the song “Homeless” there.

He also would sleep on the train after gigs.

The image shows The Notorious B.I.G. performing on stage, holding a microphone and wearing a colorful graphic shirt, sunglasses, a black hat, and gold jewelry

“I spent a week catching up on sleep on Circle Line trains.

It wasn’t that bad.

It’s not like I was sleeping rough on the cold streets.”

The Notorious B.I.G. poses with hands raised, wearing a fur coat, fedora, white turtleneck, gold chains, and rings at the Billboard Music Awards

“Everyone’s saying ‘Ed Sheeran was homeless’ I never said that in the book.

I went without a bed for some nights, that’s it.”

This information is contradicted in Kris’s memoir.

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“People think, ‘She’s just a rich kid.’

Until I was 18, I was.

Then I was broke.

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I’ve never taken a dime off my parents.”

“I was like, ‘Yeah, right.’

And he was like, ‘No, I’m not.’

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I remember once asking my dad for money, like, ‘yo, I’m really stuck.

Can you help?’

And he said, ‘You’re more than welcome to come over for dinner.’

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That was it.”

I didn’t tell them I was from Miami.

I didn’t tell them I was from anywhere.

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I was just like, ‘Listen, I’m from around the corner, man.

I’m from around the fucking way.'"

He also went to theater schoolona hardship fund.

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Shegrew upin the wealthy area of Maida Vale.

Drake laterclaimed,“Everybody thinks I went to some private school and my family was rich.

Maybe it’s my fault.

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Maybe I haven’t talked enough about it, but I didn’t grow up happy.

I wasn’t in a happy home.

… We were very poor, like broke.”

Kim Kardashian discusses how having affluent parents motivated her and her siblings to work hard and not rely on their wealth

“A season of Canadian television is under a teacher’s salary, I’ll tell you that much.

It’s definitely not something to go fucking get.”

It was what we could afford."

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My mom and dad were not buying me a $600 purse."

He was very successful, having invented GuestWi-Fi, and her mother was a VP at Verizon.

For his day job, he was a Merrill Lynch financial adviser and comesfroma long line of bank presidents.

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They also had the money to move to Nashville so that Taylor could pursue a career in music.

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Vanilla Ice performs on an outdoor stage, holding a microphone and wearing a patriotic jacket and a baseball cap. He raises one arm, gesturing to the crowd

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Drake wearing a black turtleneck and blazer, with a beaded necklace, posing against a textured backdrop

Drake at a red carpet event, wearing a light blue sweater over a white collared shirt, with sunglasses hanging from his sweater

Lady Gaga on the red carpet wearing an elegant, off-shoulder gown and a statement necklace at a Grammy Awards event

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Taylor Swift poses on the red carpet in an elegant strapless dress, layered necklaces, and black gloves, with Grammy Award statues in the background

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