"<em>That '70s Show</em> star <strong>Ashton Kutcher </strong>grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and later moved to the town of Homestead. After winning a modeling contest while attending the <a href=""https://www.biography.com/actor/ashton-kutcher"" rel=""nofollow noopener"" target=""_blank"" data-ylk=""slk:University of Iowa"" class=""link rapid-noclick-resp"">University of Iowa</a>, Kutcher dropped out and headed to New York to pursue modeling. Though he's been gone for a while, Kutcher's appreciation for Iowa has grown. ""I left Iowa wanting to get out of Iowa, and the older I get the more I want to come home,"" he told the <a href=""https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/entertainment/2017/04/08/ashton-kutcher-almost-owe-everything-who-am-where-come/100141392/"" rel=""nofollow noopener"" target=""_blank"" data-ylk=""slk:Des Moines Register"" class=""link rapid-noclick-resp""><em>Des Moines Register</em></a> in 2017. ""In part, because the more places I go, the more I realize how great it is here, and the more I realize that I almost owe everything of who I am to where I come from."""