“She Gets Stiff-Collared When Interviewers Ask About It”: 10 Celebrities Who Historically Avoided Admitting Just How Privileged They Are — Even Though Everyone Could See It

It’s nary concealed that tons of the biggest stars successful Hollywood travel from VERY privileged backgrounds. A fewer years ago, Reddit users gathered to stock their takes connected which celebrities they believed “really tried to contradict however privileged they are” — truthful here’s a roundup of responses:

1. “I emotion her work, but Phoebe Waller-Bridge was from a genuinely privileged inheritance that lone 3% of British radical get to enjoy. She’s precise humble astir it and gets a spot stiff-collared erstwhile an interviewer asks astir it. It lone annoys maine a small erstwhile she talks astir erstwhile she was a struggling histrion doing ‘temp jobs’ and being broke.”

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2. “Kendall Jenner acts similar her household is the crushed wherefore she has to enactment harder than the mean exemplary erstwhile successful world it was her ain mother’s connections that got her into the manufacture and signed to 1 of the apical agencies.”

3. “Margot Robbie’s backstory is simply a small inconsistent, or, astatine least, misrepresented. She was seemingly moving 3 jobs to assistance her parent get by, and astir the aforesaid time, they moved to a bully location successful a bully suburb connected the Gold Coast. She besides went to backstage school.”

4. “Lady Gaga came from a beauteous affluent background. She went to an elite all-girls Catholic backstage schoolhouse and attended the Tisch School of the Arts, but I perpetually perceive her spell connected astir however she came from a tough, lower-middle-class Italian household and truly struggled successful her aboriginal days, adjacent though she really had a batch of enactment from her parents. What was adjacent funnier was erstwhile she gave a code astatine the CFDA Fashion Awards astir however she had to prevention up each her wealth truthful that she could spend a vintage Mugler jacket. It was truthful quintessential Gaga yet truthful retired of touch.”

5. “Lana Del Rey came from a reasonably upper-middle-class family, grew up successful Manhattan, and adjacent attended boarding school. She has said connected respective occasions that her household ‘came from nothing,’ which is beauteous dishonest since her household was beauteous good off.”

6. “Ed Sheeran’s parents are creation curators and adjacent had their ain creation consultancy. He’s incredibly well-connected, too, and could conscionable beryllium a socialite if helium weren’t a singer. I hated erstwhile his PR team/label were trying to propulsion this full ‘sleeping connected friends' couches and busking’ narrative.”

7. “Ariana Grande has a opus called ‘Bad Decisions’ wherever she sings ‘we got that hood love.’ She grew up successful Boca Raton, Florida, successful a million-dollar home. Her parent is simply a CEO. She had Kristin Chenoweth arsenic a mentor from a young age. She claims she’s bully astatine manifestation erstwhile truly it’s privilege that’s giving her each these opportunities.”

8. “Taylor Swift’s vocation was fundamentally manufactured by her father, who was intimately associated with Big Machine Records, but she portrayed the communicative of a small-town miss who had to emergence supra the likelihood to marque it successful the business. She perfectly acts similar she was conscionable a regular ol’ state miss increasing up connected a Christmas histrion workplace erstwhile her parents were some large executives and her dada bought a involvement successful her archetypal grounds label. She grew up rather good off.”

9. “Bob Dylan is the classical illustration of a personage who tried to enactment similar they came from thing to merchantability a marque erstwhile helium was besides from a privileged background.” (A 2001 article from the New Yorker stated of Bob, "Rather than confess to a middle-class background, helium inflated his folkie bona fides: oh, he'd tally distant from location much oregon little annually from the property of ten; he'd performed successful carnivals; helium had nary mother, nary father, and worked arsenic a Times Square hustler.")

10. And finally, “Maya Hawke said she had to audition for Once Upon a Time... successful Hollywood conscionable similar everybody other did. Girl, your ma was Quentin Tarantino’s muse and predominant collaborator.”

Let america cognize what you deliberation — and consciousness escaped to stock your ain responses — down beneath successful the comments.

Some responses person been edited for magnitude oregon clarity.