This girl from West Virginia had a pretty peaceful childhood. She grew up in Charleston and was raised by her mother, Pat, who was a school teacher, and her father, who worked for Union Carbide as a chemical engineer.
She recalled that her upbringing was without chaos. However, her parents were strict and forbade their three daughters to wear makeup and bikinis. But they encouraged their children to embrace what they loved.Her mother didn’t have help when raising her three daughters. So, this girl and her sisters often went to stay with their neighbors if their mom needed to go somewhere after school. The mom would make sure her kids had a snack and did their homework.
This girl, who later became a Hollywood star, loved ballet as a child and couldn’t get enough of it. But she had to drop it because she didn’t have a ballerina’s body. After high school, the Hollywood star went to college to study Chemistry but later switched to theater.She graduated in 1994 and went to New York to visit a friend. While in the city, she decided to visit an agent because she thought she had a pretty good resume for a 22-year-old. Still, the start of her career didn’t happen this fast.
The girl got a waitressing job to fend for herself as she worked for her big break in the entertainment scene. During this time, she slept on a woman’s kitchen floor for nine months.
Even when she got a job as an understudy in “A Month in the Country,” which starred Helen Mirren and paid her $150 a week, she continued sleeping in the woman’s kitchen. She slept on a futon for $400 a month.
The Hollywood star recalled that she was “so broke” she couldn’t afford butter and would eat noodles with canola oil and salt. It took her nine months to finally save enough money for a realtor’s fee so that she could get her own apartment…CONTINUE READING