Mena Suvari

Mena Suvari started in the business as a model until she gradually became a guest star on different TV programs. Her first-ever movie was the 1997 indie film, Nowhere, until she started to be known in the 1999 hit films American Beauty and American Pie. The now-41-year-old star became a global star back then. However, as her shine started to fade in the 2000s, Suvari found it hard to land prominent roles.

Suvari has always been a model of Lancôme cosmetics and Lancôme Paris Adaptîve print advertising, and is a long-term supporter and activist of the Starlight Children’s Foundation and the African Medical and Research Foundation. It took a toll on her financial status, badly affecting her credit score. If things couldn’t get worse, her second husband, Simone Sestito, even asked her to pay him $17,000 a month in spousal support after they parted ways in 2012. At the time, it was already a huge amount for Suvari, who was struggling to get back on her feet.