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Before Success

Recognise the following celebrities who struggled with poverty during their childhood,
but did not let their struggles stop them from aspiring to succeed.

Let’s read about the hard-working people.

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Rajinikanth worked as Steve Jobs was the adopted Oprah Winfrey was born
a carpenter and a bus child of a working-class in a very poor family with
conductor. He later became couple who could not a hand to mouth earning
a film superstar. He was afford his college fees. He from a farmland. She now
awarded the Padma later became the creator of has her own cable network
Bhushan. innovative devices. channel.

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Jim Carrey was living in a J. K. Rowling grew in Akshay Kumar started as
tent after his father lost his poverty and was a single a waiter at a restaurant in
job. At a young age, he was mother living on welfare in Bangkok. He returned to
diagnosed with dyslexia Edinburgh, U.K. as she was India after receiving martial
which made school unemployed. Now, she is arts training, and changed
difficult. He later became a a celebrated author of the the definition of an action
celebrated actor. Harry Potter series. hero in Bollywood.

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