Today, Sarah Jessica Parker has around a $200 million net worth, too many Manolo Blahniks to count, and a mega-mansion in Manhattan’s West Village. But before becoming Carrie Bradshaw and earning more than $1 million per episode of And Just Like That, the star says her family couldn’t always afford electricity or to celebrate Christmas. Now, she’s telling graduates that growing up in poverty motivated her to build the life she has today.
“I am one of eight kids that struggled financially,” Parker recently said in a commencement speech to Northwestern University students.
