Scar Jo reveals her family grew up on government food assistance programs

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.