Leonardo DiCaprio Once Shared His Mom Was the Only Person He’d Buy Diamonds for

Leonardo DiCaprio ’s massive net worth has allowed him to buy lavish gifts for himself , friends, and family. But there’s one type of item he’d usually gift to his mom and no one else.

Leonardo DiCaprio’s lavish gifts on his mom

DiCaprio has had plenty of women in his life , and it’s likely he’s bought a few luxurious treats for some of them. For instance, Daily Mail once alleged that the Oscar winner bought ex-girlfriend Blake Lively a brand new Prius. A source claimed that DiCaprio didn’t like the idea of Lively driving a Range Rover at the time. It was alleged that he felt the Prius, which cost $40,000, would be much less of a burden on the environment.

But diamonds were items that he might’ve not bought any of his past girlfriends. They were gifts he typically only purchased for only one woman.

“My mom was the only person I would really buy something like that for,” DiCaprio once told Phase9 . “And for a while now she hasn’t wanted one.”

DiCaprio has even competed for gifts just to give them to his mom. Elle reported back in 2016 that DiCaprio outbid a room full of wealthy consumers for a Chanel bag that cost $24,700. One of the celebrities he outbid for the item was celebrity heiress Paris Hilton. And it wasn’t the only time DiCaprio bid competitors for gifts to purchase for his family.

It’s easy to see why DiCaprio treats and pampers his mom given his upbringing. He and his family were initially very poor growing up . But their circumstances motivated him even further to get into acting.

“Money was always on my mind when I was growing up,” he once told The Telegraph .

“So I was always wondering how we were going to afford this and that,” DiCaprio added. “Acting seemed to be a shortcut out of the mess.”

The Titanic star credited his parents’ valuable support for helping him succeed

“I’m completely indebted to them in every single way,” DiCaprio said. “They listened to me, you see. They listened to their kid saying, ‘This is what I want to do,’ and they supported me unconditionally; they made me feel that all my dreams were within reach. Now I know a lot of people who have grown up in much better-off families, with much more solid family structures, who haven’t in any way had that level of love in their lives.”

The greatest gift Leonardo DiCaprio’s dad gave to him

It might not be easy trying to come up with a gift for a man who can afford anything. But DiCaprio’s father , George DiCaprio, felt he’d already given his son one of his greatest gifts before his success. In an interview with The New York Times , George felt he gave DiCaprio his fearlessness, which helped turn him into a superstar.

“Leo is on a quest to find out how many things he can do in life and not do them straight,” DiCaprio’s father said. “He would walk to the guillotine and act goofy. We think he’s actually an alien, wired a different way than us. There’s something going on in him that we don’t understand.”

His Mom, Irmelin, couldn’t have been prouder of her son’s meteoric rise back then. But at the same time, what she wanted most for her son was something DiCaprio didn’t need millions of dollars to buy.

“I’m overwhelmed,” Irmelin said about DiCaprio. “I can’t see him as other people do. All I’m concerned about is his health — sleep more, exercise more, eat better. That’s the litany. The rest, I wouldn’t care if he gave it up tomorrow.”