[caleb.]

Originally posted by Eeveelution

Why are people being so defensive when their fave is called rich?

This

[LovingYourCareer]

Originally posted by RockNRollNLove

What the hell are you talking about?

You know how much it costs to live and get a whip in Cali?

People who live there (mostly) are rich.

I dare you to try to buy a house there.

[Abyssy]

JoJo was pretty poor growing up. She lived in a one-bedroom house and was raised only by her mother after her father left them when she was young.

xox

[Tristan]

Originally posted by Gary

Britney was poor. She couldn't even afford an airplane ticket for an audition to the record label that called her. Her mom's friend, her now assistant Felicia, paid for the ticket.

Oh this is true

[Gary]

Originally posted by Black Umbrella

Lana & Gaga were Rich/Upper Class.

Avril, Britney, Iggy & Rita were middle class.

(Someone said Rita was rich when all her dad had was a small bar she used to sell clothes with her family )

Britney wasn't middle class. She was really poor.

[B'Day]

Did Britney's dad actually hunt squirrels for dinner though?

[MillionLights]

Ariana

[suburbannature]

People who were around Lana's dad in her early days say he was middle class. He managed online timeshares and real estate and they lived in a modest home in Lake Placid.

[Ascension]

Originally posted by RockNRollNLove

Does that mean she was poor?
There are far worse things than working in a hair salon^^

Her family's house when she was a child. It's a mansion. She was clearly rich!

That's not a mansion tho. The average list price for the MacGregor neighborhood/Parkwood Dr (where ^ that house is located) in Houston, TX is $386,114 -- which would equate to a mortgage payment of around $1,800.00 monthly. A two income household with each person earning 30-35k annually could pretty easily afford that house payment with a household income that isn't much higher than the US national average of 52k annually.

It's not hard to get a large house in the US with two average incomes and decent credit -- especially in the south where you can get a lot of house for your money in comparison to other regions/cities. Yeah, they lived quite well but, they worked hard and leveraged everything they had to get it and lost it when Mathew sacrificed his job to put full energy into management of the group. No, Bey obviously isn't a rags to riches case; however, to claim they were rich is a misrepresentation as well, IMO. People in this thread are trying it claiming she "bought her way in" when they literally had to lose everything with Mathew leaving his job so DC could have a chance.

[KyIe]

Originally posted by Archetype

Gaga was always part of a wealthy family. Her parents lived (and still live) in a large apartment on New York's Upper West Side, and sent her to one of the best private Catholic schools in NYC, and then sent her to NYU Tisch, which was probably around $50,000 a year when she was accepted (it's now at $60,000-$70,000), AND sent Gaga's sister to Parsons in NY (another $55,000+ a year school). Her father needed to be making at least $150,000 a year to afford any of that, especially their apartment and Gaga's college. Gaga always says how her family wasn't rich, but she's comparing herself to the daughters of politicians and celebrities that she grew up with. She's not middle class at all, and neither was Lana (Lizzie) for that matter.

With the taxes in NYC he had to have been making at least quadruple the $150,000 you suggested. Some of you all don't realize how much money it takes to be wealthy and maintain that lifestyle.

[Miracle]

Ggaa wasn't *totally* rich

Her parents worked so hard in order to give her the best things out there, that's why she went to a private expensive school and lived in an upper-class zone of New York City. Atleast that what she said and I believe in her.

[Dancehall]

Traditionally 250k a year up is "rich", obviously in major cities (where that amount is upper middle class) and with a lot of other factors that number might not seem like much but it's still more than 98% of couples make a year. Putting the cutoff for rich at millions a year is pretty absurd. That being said, I don't pretend to know what pop girls' parents make a year.

[taylor__fan]

Originally posted by Soda Pop Queen

So, middle class and upper-middle class means 'rich' now? most of these girls' parents were not making 7 figures and up.

This, this is the case of Beyonce and Taylor at least. Miley was probably rich since his father has the best selling album release the year taht it was releases (but I don't remember )

Lana was rich too right?

[Ecstasy]

Britney's dad did not haunt squirels. But he was a deadbeat alcoholic and Britney was actually the breadwinner of the house before she even went to school. She had to take care of her parents and talentless little sister, leave her alone.

[Atlas]

So Bey and Gaga were more well off then the other girls but they're still the hardest working girls in the industry so it doesnt really matter

[Daddy]

Originally posted by LoveTheWayILie

Britney's dad did not haunt squirels. But he was a deadbeat alcoholic and Britney was actually the breadwinner of the house before she even went to school. She had to take care of her parents and talentless little sister, leave her alone.

I'm gonna leave this beer-drinking squirrel here for you to come down a little bit.

[Legend E]

Taylor and Lana

[J a y]

Gaga was not.

Because she was aware of her parents' sacrifices for her education, Stefani took school seriously from a young age. One of her favorite childhood memories is playing a piano concert at Sacred Heart at 8.

Amy was not.

Amy Winehouse was born in Chase Farm Hospital in north London, to Jewish parents. Her father, Mitchell "Mitch" Winehouse, was a window panel installer then a taxi driver; her mother, Janis Winehouse (née Seaton), a pharmacist. The Winehouse ancestors were Russian and Polish immigrants to London.

[Artemisia]

Originally posted by Ascension

It's not hard to get a large house in the US with two average incomes and decent credit -- especially in the south where you can get a lot of house for your money in comparison to other regions/cities.

ffff this is so true. Just in my area there are massive homes (>3500 sqft) for like 250k-300k. It's crazy.

[Legend E]

Originally posted by Dark Miracles

TBH it's pretty obvious which of these girls were rich before fame and which weren't. You can see it in their mannerisms and overall behavior, especially with wealthy girls like Taylor Swift.

True.

And poor Kelly was a waitress