Scarlett Johansson revealed that her family, including her four siblings, was forced to live on government food assistance programs while growing up.
The 30-year-old actor explained that they grew up relying on public assistance to help provide meals for the family, as she fronts a new campaign for US food charity Feeding America to end child hunger, Stuff.co.nz reported.
Child hunger in America was a real and often overlooked problem, but one that together, it could be fixed and by joining with Feeding America she hopes that the awareness of this issue would lead to a solution, Johansson further added.
The 'Avengers' star had previously described her upbringing, in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, as one of "little money."
Johansson and her Avengers co-star Jeremy Renner appear in a series of short videos for the organisation, in which they speak about the US's alarming child hunger statistics.
