Before Melissa McCarthy made it big, she had less than $5 in her bank account

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Before Melissa McCarthy made it big, she had less than $5 in her bank account
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'I think the best thing I could have done was struggle until I was 30.' Here's how melissamccarthy went from $5 in her bank account, to millions. via CNBCMakeIt

"I remember when you could still get a $5 bill out of an ATM and I couldn't get it because [my balance] was under $5," McCarthy tells the publication.

"When I moved to New York at 20, I wish I did not discover that you can just get credit cards. I had a friend — Brian Atwood, the shoe designer — and I remember him saying, 'What are you going to do, walk around New York in cheap shoes? You go to Bergdorf,'" McCarthy tells Glamour. "I was such a farm girl that I was like, 'I guess he's right.'"

McCarthy soon quit school to pursue a career in stand-up comedy, but success wasn't immediate, and she spent years hustling in Hollywood before making it.

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