A Lot of People Got Famous Because They Had Rich Parents
Everyone has thought about their life in terms of fame at least once if not multiple times. It’s fun to imagine the extravagant adventures, exclusive parties, and swarms of people approaching you with sparkles in their collective eyeballs. It’s not a life for everybody, but those with a mission to obtain fame have to go through a series of hurdles that can produce doubt, fear of rejection, and financial trouble. That is unless you’re rich.
An indestructible safety net from parental figures is what propelled so many stars to be where they are now, leaving a population of less fortunate people breaking their backs to get a glimpse in the limelight.
Taylor Swift, Anderson Cooper, Julia Louis Dreyfuss, Brooke Shields, Jake Gyllenhaal, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Rooney Mara, Kate Mara, Paul Giamatti, Adam Levine, Chevy Chase, Edward Norton, Jordin Sparks, and Rashida Jones all had rich parents.
When you’re an up-and-coming entertainer with little income, you become highly aware of how much of a risk getting into the field is. Sometimes you’ll need to take classes that cost a decent amount of money that you most likely scrape together from your paycheck as a server.
But Bryce Dallas Howard, Ariana Grande, Devon Aoki, Nick Kroll, Armie Hammer, Spike Jonze, Paris Hilton, Miley Cyrus…