Actress Viola Davis Says She Knows How To Be Hungry And Poor

Oscar-nominated actress Viola Davis said that she has experienced how to be hungry when she was child, which inspires her to get involved with the Hunger Is campaign, US Magazine reported.

During the Variety's Power in Women event on Oct. 10. Davis revealed this ,"Although my childhood was filled with many happy memories, it was also spent in abject poverty," she explained to the audience in tears. "I was one of the 17 million kids in this country who didn't know where the next meal was coming from, and I did everything to get food. I have stolen for food. I have jumped in huge garbage bins with maggots for food. I have befriended people in the neighborhood, who I knew had mothers who cooked three meals a day for food, and I sacrificed a childhood for food and grew up in immense shame," Davis was quoted as saying in her speech by the magazine.

Now Davis is one of the many individuals who joined the hunger campaign to raise awareness about global hunger.

Jennifer Lopez and Reese Witherspoon who also spoke at Variety's Women in Power event also joined Davis. She said that there are 17 million, 21 million families in the United States that have to be in food assistance programs.

Lopez was honored due to her Lopez Family Foundation, that helps women especially mothers to have the capacity to take care of their families.

"There were those who didn't have the access, the resources or the education to get the right care for themselves and their children," Lopez said as stated by the Magazine. She added, "I've been a mother for six years and there isn't a single moment of the day that doesn't go by where I don't worry and every mom knows this feeling."