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MICHAEL PHELPS on being bullied on YAHOO Sports Often bullied about his lisp and his big ears, Michael Phelps said in an interview, “It’s kind of crazy. When I do go up around where I used to live [in Baltimore], you still see the same people who were picking on me. They’re still around, busing tables or whatever, probably still acting the same way. They’ll try to talk to me and I’m thinking, ‘Yeah, why are talking to me now? You were picking on me then.”” |
MEGAN FOX
“Usually the bullies are the most insecure. I was bullied and it’s hard, you feel like high school’s never going to be over. It’s four years of your life and you just have to remember the person picking on you has their own problems and their own issues. And you’re going to be OK.” ENews
LELE PONS
“People threw food at me and sang songs about how ugly I was.” People
LADY GAGA on being okay with herself on The Ellen Show
“I didn’t fit in at high school, I wanted to be like Boy George and I felt like a freak. It took a long time for me to be OK with myself.”
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE on feeling like an outcast on The Ellen Show
“I grew up in Tennessee, and if you didn’t play football, you were a sissy. I got slurs all the time because I was in music and art . . . I was an outcast in a lot of ways . . . but everything that you get picked on for or you feel makes you weird is essentially what’s going to make you sexy as an adult.”
JOHN BARROWMAN
“I knew at a very young age that I was gay. I was walking back to my locker and this kid caught up to me and he called me “fag”, punched me in the face, shoved me in the locker and shut the door. What do you do? You’re mortified, you’re embarrassed, you just think, what do I tell my mom and dad?”
Barrowman eventually stood up to his bully.
“You can hit me, you can punch me, and you can bully me and do everything you want. Punch me in the face as many times you want, but I will always get back up.”
Barrowman cautions that you shouldn’t try to do it alone.
“You have to find people around you to support you, right? Your friends. Your family. We all love super heroes. Why not be one? So make a stand for who you are and make a stand for someone else.” CBS8.com
JENNIFER LAWRENCE
“I changed schools a lot when I was in elementary school because some girls were mean. They were less mean in middle school, because I was doing all right, although this one girl gave me invitations to hand out to her birthday party that I wasn’t invited to.” The Sun
JACKIE CHAN
“I was bullied quite a lot when I was growing up in my Peking Opera School. I allowed myself to be bullied because I was scared and didn’t know how to defend myself. I was bullied until I prevented a new student from being bullied. By standing up for him, I learned to stand up for myself.”
EVA MENDES
“I became a victim of bullying. I was a gawky, skinny girl with big teeth and that made me an easy target. I had two bullies and they tortured me all through junior high school.” Daily Mail
EMINEM
“As a child, Marshall Mathers (Eminem) was bullied so severely he ended up in the hospital with a concussion and temporary blindness.” New York Daily News