How celebs’ mega mansions compare to their humble childhood homes, from Beyoncé to Ellie Goulding
CELEBS are often flaunting their luxurious lifestyles and sprawling mansions on social media for us regular folk to lust over, but, like us, most came from humble beginnings with smaller childhood homes.
After finding fame as an award-winning pop star, Ellie Goulding, 33, swapped her council home in Lyonshall, just a stone's throw away from the Welsh border, for a dreamy central London pad, which she recently sold for a whopping £5.9 million.
The five storey 2,961 sq ft property boasts five bedrooms, two lounges, a state-of-the-art kitchen and dining area as well as a luxurious cinema room with a stylish white and grey theme throughout.
But Ellie's swish home is a far cry from where she grew up in a small rural town of just 750 people when she barely had pennies to her name and struggled to make ends meet.
The hitmaker shot to fame after releasing her first album, Lights, in 2010, and now has four platinum-selling albums and an estimated fortune of £20 million.
Last year, Elle married art dealer Caspar Jopling in a lavish wedding with friends Princess Eugenie and her then fiancé Jack Brooksbank in attendance - proving just how far she's come.
But she's just one of many high-flying celebs who've upgraded their pads from modest detached houses to sprawling estates with fellow hitmakers Rihanna and Beyoncé cashing in too.
Singer and make-up extraordinaire Rihanna, real name Robyn Fenty, grew up in Barbados, in a quaint bungalow she shared with her two siblings.
In 2012 RiRi gave Oprah a tour of her childhood home, and fans often snap selfies in front of it when in town.
The 32-year-old, who moved to America to start her career, bought a $6.8million mansion in LA a few years ago, which boasts six bedrooms and eight bathrooms over 7,130sq ft.
The pop star and entrepreneur made her fortune through her extensive music career and booming make-up brand, Fenty Beauty, giving her an estimated fortune of £468 million.
This eye-watering amount put her at third place on The Sunday Times Rich List, after revealing she's been living in London and is renting out her LA pad as she tries to sell it.
Meanwhile, music icon Beyoncé swapped her quaint home for a $81million mansion in the swanky neighbourhood of Bel Air, which she and husband Jay Z bought in 2017.
The music mogul, whose career began with R&B group Destiny's Child before going solo, came from a small picturesque terraced property in Houston with a winding drive, which has three bathrooms and three bedrooms.
While it might not seem so bad, it's a long way from the dreamy 30,000sq ft mansion she lives in with her family today.
Her pad has eight bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, a home cinema, tennis and basketball courts as well as four pools - in case one wasn't enough.
As for fellow singer Ariana Grande, who now calls a $13.7 million mansion home, her former home was a fraction of the size but still seriously impressive.
The 27-year-old grew up in Florida, in a lavish home with five bedrooms and seven bathrooms set among 7,590sq ft of space - with a pool.
But despite coming from a sizable family house, the Thank U Next singer upgraded her digs and forked out for a new build in the Hollywood Hills back in 2017.
Her new gaffe boasts four bedrooms, seven bathrooms as well as a fitness studio, 300-bottle wine cellar and an infinity pool - so everything we could ever dream of.
But unlike Arianna, rapper Eminem, real name Marshall Mathers, came from humble beginnings in Detroit, a subject he often references in his songs.
The 48-year-old used a snap of his childhood home on the cover of his album Marshall Mathers LP 2, and while the home was later demolished Eminem kept some bricks and later auctioned them off.
The one-bathroom home is in stark contrast to the 15,129 square foot mansion he bought in Rochester Hills, with the 5.7 acre estate boasting six bedrooms, nine bathrooms, a tennis court, lake, pool and a five-car garage.
And with a career spanning 20 long years, he can now kick back and relax in one of the many comfy rooms.
Grease legend John Travolta spent his younger years in New Jersey, with snaps from a property listing claiming to be the actor’s childhood home showing a modest two-storey house with three bedrooms and two bathrooms.
Nowadays the 66-year-old lives in an airport he bought in Florida, which houses two runways for his private jets.
The actor, whose wife Kelly Preston sadly passed this year, owns five planes and extended the taxiway straight to his front door.
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