Real Life Celeb Jersey Girls

Queen Latifah
Quite often, you hear the bad things about Newark," Latifah has said of her hometown. "But from those same streets, here I am, and I made it. So you can make it too." She added, "We have a lot to be proud of. We've got something about us that allows us to make it anywhere in the world."

Anne Hathaway
Anne grew up in Jersey and she says, "It was very suburban. I played a lot of sports. There’s a local theater that is actually quite prestigious and I took acting classes there when I was a kid and, you know, I would hang out with my friends. There wasn’t anything really noteworthy about it in the good or the bad sense. It was just very pleasant."