The woman in this photo grew up to become the richest actress in the world!

She started as an ordinary girl in suburban Glenview, Illinois — the kind of kid no one expected to one day out-earn every Hollywood A-lister on the planet. Long before she became the world’s richest actress, she lived a life as typical as it gets: public school, a contractor father, a childhood far from any red carpet. There was nothing in her early years hinting at global fame or a multibillion-dollar fortune. But fate has a habit of showing up unannounced, and for her, it arrived through a nationwide talent search that changed everything. She was just a teenager when…

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