Crush: Hollywood's Next Generation

• Shia LaBeouf: I'm Proud of Growing Up Poor

  posted by Dotson Rader, Parade - Wed Jun 10 2009, 1:00 AM PDT

  celebs: Shia LaBeouf
  topics: Hotties | Breakups

  Shia LaBeouf opens up about everything in the upcoming issue of Parade magazine. Matt Jones/Parade Shia LaBeouf's image has certainly changed since his days as a Disney star on "Even Stevens." In the upcoming issue of Parade, the "Transformers" hottie opens up about his troubles with fame, alcohol, and losing the love of his life. Check out these juicy excerpts, where Shia dishes on his unusual childhood, then read the full story on Parade.com.

  On his breakup with China Brezner:
  "Why did the love of my life and I break up? Man, I have no idea. Maybe it was career pressure. Maybe I chose work. Every man has those feelings of escape and survival. I know you shouldn't be that way. I'm trying to understand it and find the answers. I don't have them now. Like other 23-year-old guys, I'm normal and I'm fallible."

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  On growing up in a family of starving artists:
  "My dad and my mom were both artists who never found an audience for their artwork. And so I lived in poverty. Now that I'm not poor, I know that is what it was. Like Hemingway said, you can't write anything if you've never been shot at or been gorged by a bull, you know? So I look back at that stuff and I'm grateful. It's like scars. You become proud of them."

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  On why his parents went their separate ways:
  "Finance drove my family apart because they were co-owners in a fashion company that fell apart. And my mother blamed my dad for it, you know, blamed him for wrecking it all. My mom and my dad, and vice-versa -- it's back and forth. It may not be the sole reason for the split, but it is the superficial reason. It's the surface reason that you can point at and go, 'That's the reason.'"

  "My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it," notes Shia. Matt Jones/Parade

  On diving into a showbiz career:
  "I just knew that money was a solution to whatever the hell was going on in my household. With money, I and my family would have had more options. So I went after a job that I thought I could make the most money for a 10-year-old or an 11-year-old boy."

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  On his generation vs. his parents':
  "My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer; less fun and less money. It's ridiculous. In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore. You can see it in something as simple as where their music was at and where ours is now. If you look at our Billboard Top 100, a lot of those songs on there are from Christian country artists. A lot of rappers, too, are very Christian. The fact that [religion] is even still talked about is kind of wild to me. I think my generation understands it, but they are too selfish to let it matter."

  
  

  "Sometimes I feel I’m living a meaningless life, and I get frightened," reveals the 23-year-old actor. Matt Jones/Parade

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