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Plain Frugal or Modest Living? When Stars Become Unconventionally Practical

  • [아시아뉴스통신] Timothy Montales 기자
  • 송고시간 2019-03-13 16:50
  • 뉴스홈 > 국제
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A Tinseltown wedding costing less than $150, total monthly dining out expense of $500 by a star who is worth millions of dollars, and a big-time rapper driving a 24-year-old car.


These incidents may seem to be uncommon and unexpected, at least, by Hollywood standards -- but they’re all true anyway, according to Business Insider.


When actor-writer-director Dax Shepard (“Hit and Run,” “CHiPS”) and actress Kristen Bell (“Veronica Mars,” “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”) decided to hold a Beverly Hills Courthouse wedding on October 2013, they ended up spending $142 for it.


That amount even covered the fuel they used to get to the venue, according to CNN.


Based on the income and expense declaration filed by the lawyer of Zooey Deschanel (“New Girl,” “500 Days of Summer”) after she divorced Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard in 2012, the public learned that she allocated $500 as a monthly budget for “eating out,” reported TMZ.


Grammy-winning rapper Ludacris -- Christopher Brian Bridges in real life -- drives a 1993 model of Honda's Acura Legend sedan.


Speaking of cars, Jennifer Lawrence, one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood, uses an economical car, the Volkswagen Eos, which cost less than $39,000 back in 2013.


Sarah Michelle Gellar (“Buffy The Vampire Slayer,” “Cruel Intentions”), who has been a wife to fellow actor Freddie Prinze, Jr. (“I Know What You Did Last Summer,” “Scooby-Doo”) since 2002, told Self magazine that they like “to eat fresh, organic and local” and choose to buy ingredients at supermarket for them “to do it so it's not as pricey.”


In a 2010 interview with The Guardian, “Mad Men's” Vincent Kartheiser revealed that he would take the bus or sometimes just walk.


“I haven't had a mirror for six or seven years,” he even shared. “I’m forever looking in the mirrors of parked cars.”


Kartheiser also hinted that he didn't own a TV set.



Ashley Greene, who gained international fame via “Twilight” as the clairvoyant vampire Alice Cullen, thanked her father on how “to be frugal and save,” according to a 2012 interview with Marie Claire.


Greene said she would use the money she earned -- the “Twilight Saga” comprises five movies (2008-2012) -- to “make my house and car payments and buy food for my dogs.”


If ever there will be a new edition of Paris Hilton's TV series "The Simple Life," these celebrities will perhaps make a fitting cast.