Stars Who Struggled Before Making It Big

Chrissy Metz

Chrissy Metz became a breakthrough actress after the premiere of NBC’s This is Us, but for the new coming actress, success didn’t come so easily. In an interview with Glamour, she recounted everything that happened up until she booked a part in This is Us, at which point she only had 81 cents in her bank account.

She thought her breakthrough would come when she was cast as Ima Wiggles in American Horror Story, but she was mistaken. “When it wrapped,” she says, “there was… nothing. I almost moved back to Florida, but my mom said, ‘You can either be miserable here and not pursue your dreams, or you can be miserable in LA and at least pursue what you want.’ So I stayed.”