17 A-List Celebrities Who Chose to Live with Their Parents After They Got Famous

Diane J. Cho, Stephanie SengweSat, August 15, 2026 at 10:30 AM UTC

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There’s no place like home, and these stars proved it.

Even after finding fame, starring in blockbuster movies, topping the music charts and launching successful businesses, celebrities such as Kim Kardashian, Billie Eilish, Michael B. Jordan, Jennifer Lawrence and more, returned home when they needed to.

“I love my parents. As we get older and realize that time is short and limited, unfortunately we can’t live forever on this planet, [we have] a finite amount of time. I have a great relationship with my parents and wanting to be around as much as I could, that didn’t bother me at all. It was cool. It made for a lot of funny moments. Lots of great stories,” Jordan told CBS Good Morning of his time living with his mom and dad.

Ahead, see the A-list celebrities who lived at home even after making it big.

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Billie Eilish

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Even with 10 Grammys to her name and access to TK, Billie Eilish still finds the most comfort living in her childhood home.

“My relationship with my home has not changed, just like with my parents and my brother,” she told V Magazinein 2022. “I think it’s a bit jarring for some people who grew up with me or haven’t seen me in a long time … [they] come over to see us and see that it’s exactly the same. It’s as if you walked in here and it’s 2003.”

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Nicole ‘Snooki’ Polizzi

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The Jersey Shore’s favorite meatball didn’t move back in with her parents, per se, but for two years after welcoming her first son, Lorenzo, with husband Jionni LaValle, Snooki lived with her in-laws in their basement and part of their journey was captured on Snooki & JWoww.

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Oliver Hudson

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Oliver told E!’s Daily Pop in January 2022 that he, wife Erinn and their three kids — Rio Laura, Bodhi Hawn and Wilder Brooks — had moved in with his parents Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell temporarily while their was undergoing a remodel.

“Mom cooks great breakfast in the morning,” said Oliver in a chat days later with Stephen Colbert.

“Your mother cooks you breakfast in the morning?” replied Colbert, impressed.

“Yeah, biscuits and gravy,” Oliver replied.

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Jamie Foxx

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Although the star lives on his own, Foxx revealed that his mom and dad, who happen to be divorced, moved in with him. He broke down the unique circumstance during his appearance on the Graham Norton Show in January 2020 by explaining that his father was put in jail for seven years after being caught in possession of a small amount of illegal substances, according to US Weekly.

“This man was an educator of kids in the inner city and he taught me everything I know,” Fox said, as he started to get emotional.

“I couldn’t visit him in jail because I saw him as a king,” he continued. “But I wrote to him to say, ‘Things have gotten good for me and when you get out I will save your life,’ and he has been living with me for 20 years now.”

Then Foxx went on to share that he would always send his mother a ticket to come and visit him and “about 12 years ago, she took me up on the offer and she came for Christmas.”

He continued: “New Year’s came and went, then her birthday in January and then all of a sudden it was February and she hadn’t left.”

Even though his parents split more than 25 years ago, according to Us Weekly, their living arrangement worked out just fine.

“They live under the same roof and what’s crazy is that he still dates, and my mother will go to his side of the house to check things out!” Foxx joked. “It’s a weirdly fun household.”

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Peter Weber

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The Bachelor‘s Pilot Pete lived at home until 2021. And back in 2020, his mother, Barbara, explained why while on the Bachelor Party podcast with Rachel Lindsay and Becca Kufrin.

“First of all, we are a very, very close family. Very close... We’re basically one,” Pete’s mom Barbara began. “We support each other in every which way, and we’re each other’s best friends, not just parents. We’re everything to each other.”

She contined: “People forget: I’m Cuban, OK... In old time Cuba, the kids would be at home and in their 20s they would get married, and they would still live at home. They would have children, and the grandparents...it was one big happy family. Everybody living at home, so contrary to what a lot of people say like, can’t wait to get rid of the kids...our culture is a little bit different, and not that one is right and one is wrong, we want to keep that family tie, that unity together.”

On top of that, Barbara explained that Pete’s job as a pilot keeps him away for days at a time so financially, it wouldn’t make much sense to pay rent for his own place when he can save his money.

“He can buy a house tomorrow if he wanted it,” she said. “Responsibly, he can do it, but I’m just looking for the right place for him when we do decide that he’s going to take that step...but we’re very happy living at home, everybody together.”

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Michael B. Jordan

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For two years, the Black Panther star lived in a Sherman Oaks mansion with his parents and younger brother, Khalid. The actor bought the property in 2016 to help take care of his mom, who has lupus, but revealed in a 2018 interview with Vanity Fairthat he would be moving into a penthouse in downtown Los Angeles, much to his mother’s chagrin.

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Kim Kardashian

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Not once but twice did the beauty mogul decide to move back in with momager Kris Jenner. In 2015, Kim, then-husband Kanye and daughter North, who was 2 at the time, moved into Jenner’s Calabasas home while they were renovating their $11 million home in Bel Air — which they never even got to live in.

Kim and Kanye previously lived with Jenner in 2013 for more than one year for the same reason and eventually moved out once they settled into their $20 million estate in Hidden Hills. The kicker? They were just down the street from Jenner.

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Kirk Cousins

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The Minnesota Vikings quarterback, who signed a $84 million contract with the team, chooses to live in his parents’ basement during the summer in his hometown of Holland, Michigan. It wasn’t a bad idea to live rent-free while Cousins built his new home on Lake Michigan, which is reported to have five bedrooms and two fireplaces. The quarterback was able to move in the summer of 2018.

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Zendaya

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In a 2016 interview on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the Spider-man: Homecoming actress said living at home with her mom and dad not only saved her on rent and rides, she also had a protective barrier from the negativity that comes with being a child star.

While it’s not that unusual for a 20-year-old to live at home, it is pretty amazing that a year later, Zendaya purchased her own $1.4 million home in Los Angeles (around the same time her mom filed for divorce from her father). The home had five bedrooms, five bathrooms, a swimming pool and spa.

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Kathy Griffin

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The youngest of five kids, Griffin lived with her parents until she was 28. Thankfully, the self-proclaimed “D-List” star made it big in Hollywood and was able to purchase her “f--k you house” that cost her $10.5 million, which she paid in cash.

The 13,000 sq.-ft. mansion had nine bedrooms, 12 bathrooms, an elevator, movie theater, infinity pool and used to be next door to Kim Kardashian and Kanye West.

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Maria Menounos

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At 35, Menounos revealed on Ellen that she was living with her parents and long-term boyfriend (now husband) Keven Undergaro under one roof in Los Angeles. But coming from a traditional Greek family, Menounos wasn’t doing anything out of the ordinary.

The family’s living situation came in handy when the former E! News host had brain surgery to remove a tumor, her mother got diagnosed with brain cancer, her younger brother, Peter, suffered injuries from a car accident, and her father got very sick a week before her wedding. (Sadly, her mother passed away in 2021.)

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Jennifer Lawrence

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In 2016, the Hunger Games actress’ parents sold their Santa Monica townhouse for $1.15 million — the same property they bought in 2006 when they moved a 16-year-old Lawrence from Kentucky so she could pursue an acting career. Then in 2014, Lawrence left the nest and bought a house in Beverly Crest, California, for $8.225 million. The French-style home was previously owned by Jessica Simpson. Now, the mom of two spends most of her time in New York City with husband Cooke Maroney.

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Michelle Obama

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In an interview with CBS‘s Gayle King, the former First Lady sat down with her mother, Marian Shields Robinson, to talk about her role at the White House. Robinson lived there during all eight years of the Obama administration and grew to be the most “beloved figure” in the household.

“As a matter of fact, I had talked [the White House staff] into allowing me to do my own laundry,” she told King. She also took care of her granddaughters Malia and Sasha, and taught them how to do laundry, too.

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Taylor Lautner

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While Twilight was having its peak moment in Hollywood, Lautner was just 18 years old and still living at home. At the time, he was the world’s highest-paid teen wolf but still helping out with the garbage and mowing the lawn.

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Bradley Cooper

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After the death of his father in 2011, Cooper’s mother moved in with him to cope with the monumental loss. “My family is very close, and my dad dying was brutal for all of us,” Cooper said in an interview with Details magazine. “It was a schism, and its aftershock has not stopped. And we need each other. So here we are. But don’t get me wrong. It’s not without complications. It’s not like I live in a compound and she’s in the guesthouse. No. She’s in the next room. But here’s the thing: She’s a cool chick. We can hang, and she can roll with the punches. If that wasn’t the case, there’s no way.”

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Heidi and Spencer Pratt

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When the Hills couple faced financial issues after the show ended, the two retreated to Pratt’s parents’ beach home in Carpinteria, California, to get back to regular life. “Reacclimating off that high of that fame and lifestyle was really hard,” Heidi told Complex in 2015. The Pratts later moved to the Pacific Palisades where they lived for roughly seven years until the home was sadly burned down in the January 2025 wildfires.

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Rafael Nadal

The tennis star told The Telegraph in 2011 that he chooses to live with his family because they “cocoon me from the dangerously distracting hurly-burly that comes with money and fame, and create the environment of affection and trust I need to allow my talent to flower.” His family’s presence and support clearly made a positive impact because he is widely considered one of the best tennis players of all time.

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