Before becoming a certified Hollywood star, a young Halle Berry was forced to live in a homeless shelter as a resident arrival to New York. Speaking about that time of her life in an interview with Reader’s Digest in 2007, Berry said, “a girl had to do what a girl had to do. You can do that when you’re 21 and ambitious, and your eyes are this big and you don’t want to go home.” The former pageant queen broke out two years later in with her turn as a drug addict in 1991’s Jungle Fever.