In a candid Instagram video, celebrity cook Rachael Ray opened up about her past financial struggles, revealing how she lived on $40 a week as a poor New Yorker. She shared her reluctance to seek help from her mother and the resourcefulness she learned from her family, who taught her how to make the most of limited resources. Despite these struggles, Ray acknowledges that these experiences shaped her career and inspired her work, which now showcases her culinary expertise and budgeting skills, contributing to her current wealth of $100 million.
I didn't want to bother my mother. I didn't want her to feel scared for me. So I would never ask for money, and I didn't have any.
Eventually, I did a show called '$40 a Day.' And that was my budget for a whole week. I would buy a week's food, and I only had $40.
I always felt so grateful that I came from people who taught me how to buy dry beans, a few vegetables, very little protein, and to live on that for a long time.
It has changed the course of my life. It has made my life what it is, and that's what I try to share in these shows as often as I can.
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