30 Stars Reveal How They Spent Their First Paychecks (See What They Bought & How Much They're Worth Now!)

America Ferrera bought herself a car
Current Net Worth: $16 Million

“My first job was a Disney Channel movie called Gotta Kick It Up! and I could not believe how much money I was getting paid to do the thing that I had always wanted to do. I couldn’t believe they were paying me at all — I would’ve paid to get to dance and be in a movie,” America Ferrera told Yahoo!Life in 2019.

She continued, revealing, “With my first paycheck, I went and bought a car. It was a 2000 Mitsubishi Mirage. It was used, and I think it cost me $12,000. The hardest thing about growing up in L.A. was getting a ride anywhere. I used to have to ride, like, three buses to get to an audition. This was pre-Uber, not that I would’ve been able to afford Uber if it had been around. I had to ride the bus, I had to walk, I had to ride my bike, I had to beg my siblings for a ride. Getting your own car in L.A. is a huge right of passage.”

Matt Damon paid for his mom’s education
Current Net Worth: $170 Million

“The first big Hollywood paycheck I got, in my mind, was I got $25,000 in 1990 for doing a TV movie called Rising Sun. And I bought my brother a car, and I put my mom through her PhD program,” Matt Damon told The Hollywood Reporter. “And that was a really cool feeling.”

Cillian Murphy bought a sound system
Current Net Worth: $20 Million

“I think I bought like a record player. Or a sound system, cuz record players weren’t as cool as they are now,” Cillian Murphy also told The Hollywood Reporter.