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In 2019 actor Chris Pratt gave a Buzzfeed interview in which he talked about having bought his mom a house. He was just 23 years old and had just landed his first major role.

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Speaking of the event he said, "I wasn't rich. I had just enough to buy the house. I was rich for a second, and then I was poor, but my mom had a house."

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In November 2018 rapper Cardi B posted a video to Instagram in which she gave followers a grand tour of the home she had just bought for her mother.

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Part of the caption read: "Last year I was so thirsty to buy my mom a house but the ones I was interested for her weren’t at my price range. I worked and worked and now I’m here!!"

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In 2015, actor Michael B. Jordan bought a mansion in Sherman Oaks for him and his parents to live in. He has joked many times about being roommates with his folks.

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Speaking of the purchase in a 2018 interview with the Times, he said: "Look, it's every kid's dream, to buy their mom and dad a house. It was a bucket-list thing for me." 

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In 2017, 'Thor: Ragnarok' actor Chris Hemsworth told GQ Australia that the first thing he did after landing his big break was pay off his parents' mortgage. 

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Hemsworth told the magazine: "I always wanted to act, and one of the first things I wanted to do when I got any money was pay my parents' house off." 

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In 1986, Tina Turner told Rolling Stone magazine that she bought her mom a house to fulfill her own childhood dream of having a stable home, somewhere to go with the rest of the family.

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She said: "I'm reliving something I wanted when I was a child. The principal's daughters had homes, and now I have a home. I've made that dream a reality."

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In January 2020, 'Star Wars' actor John Boyega posted a video of the moment he surprised his parents Samson and Abigail with a new London home a few years prior.

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He lured them into the building under the pretense of a giving an interview and then broke the news. Part of the caption read: "Moments like these make all the hard work worth it."

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Former member of One Direction Niall Horan bought a house in Mulligar, Ireland for his mother. He apparently stays there whenever he visits his hometown.

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The singer songwriter also told the Irish Sun that he offered to buy his father a house too, but his father turned him down.

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In a 2010 interview, Nicki Minaj spoke about the experience of buying her mom a house. She said: "I used to pray that I would get money to help my mom and it's crazy that it comes to fruition even before the album comes out."

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She references the purchase in the lyrics for 'I'm the Best': "I remember when I couldn't buy my mother a couch / Now I'm sittin' at the closin' bought my mother a house."

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NFL star Russell Wilson is another celeb who surprised his mom with a new home in 2019. He posted videos of the moment that he revealed the big surprise.

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Part of the video caption read: "All these years you have never asked me for anything... only thing you ever wanted is for me to LOVE. Well thanks for loving us the way you do."

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Over the years The Rock has bought a number of houses for his parents. Things have changed since they live "like gypsies on the road from one state to another," as he recalled in 2018.

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On Christmas in 2018, the professional wrestler-turned-actor surprised his mom with a new home. He did the same thing for his father just a year later.

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The One Direction documentary 'This Is Us' (2013) included footage of the moment Zayn Malik's mom stepped into the house he had bought for her.

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She said: "You worked so hard, Zayn, and I'm just so proud of you. Very, very proud of you. I can't even thank you enough for what you've done."

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In 2016, rapper Travis Scott gave his parents a mansion for Christmas. He tweeted, "Bought my fam a crib for Christmas. Use [sic] to sleep on floors. Now we walk on marble."

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He also posted videos to Instagram of his parents looking around their new home, adding that the gift was something he had "been working on my whole life."

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In 2012, Rihanna gifted her mom a luxurious five-bedroom house in Barbados. The moment was caught on camera and shown on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show.'

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The singer's words were: "I wanted to do this for you for a very long time. You have been such an amazing mother, example, soldier, and you get to walk away with the key to this house tonight."

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Queen Bey has gifted her mother, Tina Knowles, a number of lavish homes over the years. Presumably she has a lot of cash for these sorts of things!

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At one point the 'Single Ladies' singer bought her mom a very extravagant six-bedroom home in Houston, Texas. The place was valued at US$5.9 million.

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In 2011, 'Love Story' singer Taylor Swift bought her parents, Scott and Andrea, a beautiful and extravagant US$1.4 million home in Tennessee, where she spent her childhood. 

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And as if that weren't enough, she bought them a second place later that year, and it was even bigger than the first.

Sources: (Insider) (Elle Decor)

See also: Celebs raised by their grandparents

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