Celebs certainly enjoy the finer things in life. They live in million dollar mansions, wear nothing but designer apparel and sip the finest Champagne. We kind of hate them, but only because we are really very jelly. Who doesn't dream of living the lifestyle of the rich and famous from time to time? As blinged out as famous mamas appear to be while strutting down the red carpet, we have to remember that a lot of these singers and actresses are true rags-to-riches stories. Not everybody who ends up residing in Tinsel Town started out with a 90210 area code. In fact, it's really common for some of the most stunning and talented women on the planet to have roots in very rural parts of the U.S.A.

These fifteen ladies are certainly living in luxury these days, but their DNA is straight country. Some of them were raised on family farms and spent their childhoods digging in the dirt and riding horses, and others came from towns comprised of a couple thousand people total. Perhaps the old saying is true; you can take the girl out of the country, but you can never take the country out of the girl.

Yee Haw mama!

15 Jessica Biel

Actress Jessica Biel is probably best known for starring in the WB's longest-running series, 7th Heaven, and also for being the wife to one of pop music's hottest of hotties. Mrs. Justin Timberlake has recently been enjoying a new role in life as the mother of a bouncing baby boy, Silas. Life has been kind to the smoking hot mama who lives her life in the public eye nowadays. That transition to superstar, however, could not have been an easy one considering Jessica's quiet country roots. Life was not always filming crews, concerts and red carpet events for Biel. She spent her childhood in the quiet town of Ely, Minnesota. The town only has a handful of people residing there, which for all intents and purposes makes for a pretty simple, rural upbringing.

14 Heidi Montag

Before reality star Heidi Montag was starring in The Hills and setting out to become a human Barbie doll, she was living with her family in the quiet corners of Colorado. The new mom to a little baby boy was raised in Crested Butte, Colorado. The entire sleepy town has about fifteen hundred permanent residents living there - that's the size of some high schools! Her small-town mountain life didn't last for very long though, because Heidi felt destined for fame. She moved out to Sunny California following High School, befriended Lauren Conrad and landed a role on MTV's The Hills. She went on to marry her co-star Spencer Pratt and together the pair did their best to offend the majority of the universe before deciding to give normalcy a try and finally settle down and start a little family.

13 Miranda Kerr

We know model Miranda Kerr as the stunning beauty who struts down the Victoria Secret runway like a boss and snagged hottie Orlando Bloom as a baby daddy, but to her family she is still the little country girl who loves getting dirty and riding horses. Kerr grew up far away from the catwalks and flashing camera lights in Gunnedah, New South Wales alongside her parents and younger brother. She put down some serious country roots in those early years, spending the majority of her free time riding horses on her Grandma's farm. It was there that she learned to just be herself. Kerr described those early years as "very grounding" and a place where "no one really cared what you were wearing and you could just be you." Miranda's start to life is a starkly contrast to her high-profile reality as an adult that's for sure.

12 Charlize Theron

A-list actress and mother of two, Charlize Theron, has had one hell of a roller coaster ride when it comes to the ups and downs of life. Her years have certainly been filled with some serious curveballs, that's for sure. These days, the single mama lives in Tinsel Town with her darling children in tow, which is a far cry from where she started her life. Theron was born and raised as an only child in South Africa. She spent her early years living on her parents' farm in Benoni, South Africa near Johannesburg. Farm life was certainly country, but definitely not peaceful. Her father was a raging alcoholic who physically attacked her mother when Charlize was a teenager. Charlize's mother killed her husband in self-defense while trying to protect herself and her daughter.

11 Jessica Simpson

Pop Princess Jessica Simpson is a country girl at heart. This mother of two has Texan roots and ties to life on the back roads, even though her life now doesn't necessarily reflect that past. Simpson grew up in a conservative Texan family led by her preacher father, Joe. Even though she is best known for belting out pop songs and saying clueless things like, "Is chicken of the sea actually chicken?" her roots are completely country. She grew up a true Texan, listening to country crooners and watching the Dallas Cowboys play. It wasn't until she started dating football giant Tony Romo that she reconnected with her country roots after her California stint. These days, she is less focused on being Cali or Country and more focused on just being a good mom.

10 Carrie Underwood

Carrie Underwood is sweet, beautiful, talented and country to her innermost core. Over the years. many of us have watched Carrie's Cinderella dreams come true, as she tried out for American Idol and ended up winning the entire thing! She carried that momentum through to become a country music giant and is now living her best life in Nashville with her hockey-playing husband and small son. Carrie's work ethic and perseverance to accomplish what she sets out to do may have come from her simple roots. Underwood grew up on her family's farm near the tiny town of Checotah, Oklahoma with her elementary school-teaching mother and a paper mill-working father. Her rural beginnings were a far cry from the bright lights and loud guitar strumming of her new hometown near Music City, but she seems to be right where she belongs.

9 Britney Spears

Britney Spears is half Pop Princess and half White Trash, but one hundred percent country girl. Spears was born in small-town Mississippi and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana. Even though Brit Brit is a millionaire and raises her sons far away from the Southern soil that she grew up digging in, she constantly reminds us that she is still a little bit Hillbilly. Britney's questionable style and her frequent trips to Walmart, her love of fried chicken, and her tendency to say "ya'll" are all the proof that we need to prove that this gal is still country at heart. Britney's own sister, Jaime Lynn, has publicly claimed that Brit should have gone in a country direction with her music over pop music because that is where her heart has always been.

8 Jennie Garth

Actress Jennie Garth's biggest television role to date is Kelly Taylor on Beverly Hills 90210. On the boob tube, she played a wealthy California teen, but in real life, Jennie could not have grown up more differently than her on-screen alter ego. Garth is the youngest of seven children and was born in the heart of the Midwest. - Urbana, Illinois to be exact. She spent most of her childhood getting dirty on her family's twenty-five-acre horse ranch that was tucked away somewhere between Sardorus and Arcola, Illinois, far from the sparkling shores of the Pacific. It wasn't until Jennie was a teenager that she left her horses and her country roots behind and moved westward, first to Arizona and then to California, to begin her career in modeling and eventually in acting.

7 Melissa McCarthy

Melissa McCarthy is a popular actress and a comedian whose on-screen work often has us rolling in stitches. This funny lady sure knows how to captivate a crowd with her wild antics and hysterical jokes. Before she was lighting up the silver screen with her charismatic smile, magnetic personality, and on-point acting chops, she was spending her days with her giant Midwestern family in good old Plainfield, Illinois. Melissa comes from a large Irish-Catholic family that includes both, actress and television personality Jenny McCarthy, and professional basketball player Joanne McCarthy. Before this trio of cousins found their way to the big city to live out their dreams of fame, they resided in the heart of the U.S. of A on a country farm living the simple life.

6 Demi Moore

They just don't come much hotter than actress Demi Moore. This mama to three has been a part of the Hollywood scene for longer than some of us have been alive. She is Hollywood royalty and even in her fifties, the lady is still smoking hot! Life could have been drastically different for Demi had she never managed to get on over the the "right" side of the tracks. Moore (which is actually her professional name) was born in po'dunk Rosewell, New Mexico. She grew up with her alcoholic mother, who had her own set of hot-mess trailer trash issues, and her abusive step father. Because of her dad's job, the family often bounced around from home to home. Demi vowed to create a life for herself opposite of her roots and somehow she managed to do exactly that.

5 Jewel

Goddess of the yodel, singer and songwriter Jewel, was primarily raised in the backwoods of Alaska on her extended family's 770-acre farm before moving to Homer, Alaska with her father. The house Jewel grew up in had no indoor plumbing and only an outhouse to do your business in. Jewel was so backcountry that the walk into town was two miles off the grid and her abode boasted no heat, just a trusty wood burning stove. The family lived off of what they could eat and kill and collected berries to make jellies and jams. They fished, grew vegetables and truly lived off of what the land had to offer. Jewel said that during her childhood, she rode horses every night under the Alaskan Midnight Sun. It doesn't get much more country than that!

4 Martina McBride

Martina McBride is one of the most widely recognized voices in country music. In her career, she has recorded a whopping thirteen albums, has sold over fourteen million albums, and is a fourteen-time Grammy nominee. This mama of three has snagged countless awards and accolades and has managed to balance such success with raising her family. For Martina, signing country music was nothing if not natural. This lady walks the walk and talks the talk and I think it's safe to say that country roots are embedded in her every fiber. McBride was born in Kansas and was raised on a family dairy farm along with her siblings and parents. At eight years old, she joined in her father's family band, belting out the country tunes of her youth. Martina never stopped singing those Reba McEntire and Patsy Cline tunes of her childhood and eventually got married, moved to Nashville and landed her big break.

3 Shania Twain

Well, Yee Haw! Singer and songwriter Shania Twain is nothing if not country. Her honky tonk roots are strong and she has used those country beginnings to channel her musical genius into a monstrous career. Before she was selling hundreds of millions of country-pop records and becoming one of the world's best known recording artists, Shania was living a rough childhood in Timmons, Ontario. Life in Timmons was remote and rugged to say the least. The family chopped wood, hunted and struggled to keep food on the table. Her childhood wasn't only very rustic and impoverished though, it was also extremely turbulent. Her parents fought constantly and her mother battled serious bouts of depression. At one point, Shania and her brothers and sisters found themselves living in a homeless shelter trying to survive.

2 Loretta Lynn

Country Goddess Loretta Lynn IS country. The woman has enjoyed a career in country music for over six decades and has inspired countless younger country stars that came after her to belt out their own tunes. She is country music royalty to be sure, but before she was cranking out record after record and strumming her trusty guitar, she was growing up in the mining town of Butcher Hallow, Kentucky. Lynn is the daughter of a farmer and a coal miner, how's THAT for country? After leaving Butcher Hallow with her young husband, Lynn still channeled her country roots making their growing family home in a logging community in Custer, Washington. Today, Lynn owns a home that is the seventh largest attraction in Tennessee. Fancy as it is, she still made sure her compound was built in a place that speaks to her Southern roots.

1 Wynonna Judd

Wynonna Judd's early life could not be different from the one she found herself living in the eighties and nineties. Judd rose to fame as one half of the country singing duo 'The Judds' along with her mother. The family pair turned out hit single after hit single, quickly becoming a household name in the entertainment industry. One would never guess that decades earlier, Wynonna had been born to a frightened, abandoned teen mother in Ashland, Kentucky. Her mother Naomi found herself pregnant and alone after Wynonna's father ran off before she was even born. Growing up, Wynonna and her half sister, actress and activist Ashley Judd, often wore second-hand clothing and lived in homes that didn't have electricity or indoor plumbing. Wynonna has often said that she went from "The outhouse to the White House."