GABRIELLE NEVAEH GREEN
“All that negative energy really drove me toward my passion for acting, so, to all the people who bullied me, thank you!” GL
Category: Celebrities Who Were Bullied
Kelly Clarkson
KELLY CLARKSON
“I’ve just had so many jerks in my life tell me what I should be doing. ‘This is what a pop star should do, blah blah blah.’ It really helped me signify for myself what I should be doing for me. So I kind of thank all those jerks. It helped solidify who I am.” People Magazine
Nathalie Emmanuel
NATALIE EMMANUEL on body image
“Not everyone is going to be kind, and not everyone is going to be respectful on social media. Sometimes those comments can get into the psyche, but I am not going to go crazy because of some keyboard warrior somewhere. That doesn’t stop me wanting to be who I am or say what I think or do the things I do. I workout and I aim for health- I don’t aim to be skinny. I’m over that sort of pressure. I just want to feel good. Yoga helps me de-stress, and meditation has helped me identify things that I need to heal from. That has made me a much happier and more confident person. I’m very proud of my journey, I’m just being myself, and that’s all I can try to do.” People Magazine
Isabela Peruvian
ISABELA PERUVIAN
“Everywhere you go, kids can be mean.” “In school, classmates openly expressed their opinions about me and made fun of the ‘weird’ way I spoke. Hearing me translate Spanish into English and jumbling phrases into things like ‘house brown’ or ‘car big’ would usually provoke much laughter. After that, I became extremely self-conscious. To this day, I still check myself before I say anything, like, ‘Is this cool to say? Is this going to make me fit in?'” Isabela added, “Embracing my culture. I realized it’s what makes me unique. Embracing who we are is what leads us home.” GL
Madonna
MADONNA
“I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn’t fit in anywhere.” Vogue Magazine
Jillian Michaels
“In eighth grade, I weighed 175 pounds and my nose was the size of a softball. Once, I was sitting at lunch and got surrounded by a bunch of kids who let me have it about how ugly I was – my unibrow, the fat rolling over my jeans. I was pure hell. My mom had to pull me out and put me in another school.” Jillian Michaels Women’s Health Magazine
Zach Galifianakis
ZACH GALIFIANAKIS
“There is no greater healer than laughter.” People Magazine
Ellen DeGeneres
ELLEN DeGENERES
“I don’t like to make fun of people, it’s a form of bullying. I’ve been the butt of jokes before, a punch line, and that just gave me more fuel to say I’ll never do it.” The Grammys
Daniella Perkins
DANIELLA PERKINS
“I used to be really insecure about my curls. In school, a lot of girls had really straight hair and they would be like, ‘Why does your hair look like that way? It’s so frizzy.’ I felt really different and awkward about it, so I went through a phase of straightening my hair every single day.” People Magazine
Suzanne Somers
SUZANNE SOMERS
“I believed wrongly that if I could just be perfect he, my father, would love me enough to not have a drink. At night when alcohol made my Dad especially violent, we would all get hurt physically or emotionally. The booze made him act viciously and say terrible things; “You’re stupid, hopeless, worthless, you’re nothing, you’re a big zero.” Sadly, his rants became my reality. I believed I was what he said.” People Magazine