Behind every success story, there’s a story about the storm and the trials and tribulations one had to face before reaching the top.
We often see our local celebrities flashing their goods and possessions in front of our eyes but, in reality they didn’t step into the industry with all the goods .
Pearl Thusi recently opened up about the struggles she faced before she made it big and before all the endorsement deals started rolling in.
In an interview with Slikour, Pearl shares that there was a point in her life when she would use all her money to pay for her daughters school fees and be left with no money to feed herself.
“I’ve been broke. I’ve slept dreaming about toast with butter and woke up smelling it, and only had a quarter piece left. I’ve got money for petrol but not for bread,” she shares.
The beaut shares that in most cases, her family was unable to help her as she had recently lost her mother and her extended family was also trying to make ends meet.
She also remembers that there was a time her gran and her mother’s best friend sent her R1400 which meant so much to her.
“To me that was a lot of money because of how broke I was. My grandmother took her pension money and sent it to us and my mother’s friends sent us money. I’ll forever be grateful. I don’t forget that,” she says.
“Some of my own siblings couldn’t send us money at the time, or wouldn’t. I’ve made some new family in Johannesburg. Sometimes blood isn’t thick enough,” she continues.
This is a firm confirmation that you should never judge a book by it’s cover, read the story first.
