ANGELINA JOLIE
“Know yourself, and look at the people who love you, like your family. You know you are not what the bully says. Don’t change” People Magazine
Category: Celebrities Who Were Bullied
Tom Brady
TOM BRADY
“I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn’t think I’d play one year in the NFL, and now I’m going on my 17th year.” Cosmospolitan Magazine, 2018
Julianne Hough
JULIANNE HOUGH
“I got bullied in high school big time. I had just come back from London and was the new kid. People looked at me like, she thinks she’s all that. And because I didn’t know how to talk to them, maybe I did come across that way? I don’t know. I got asked to prom by a guy, and he ended up ditching me that day because the girls told him to do it. They made up rumors when I was on a choir trip that I did naughty things. And then I got invited to a party when I was 15, and my dad took me there because I couldn’t drive –but it was an abandoned house. I was like maybe they’re in the back, and my dad was like I don’t think they are sweetheart.” Red Book Magazine
Misty Copeland
MISTY COPELAND on being criticized by others:
“Once you accept yourself for who you really are, there’s only so much you can do. It has nothing to do with me, and everything to do with the person doing the criticizing.” People Magazine
Amy Poehler
AMY POEHLER
“In middle school, my demon would receive my school picture and maybe gently suggest I do something about those eyebrows, but for the most part it left me alone. Then I started caring about boys. Boys, who were going through their own battles, started to point things out about me I hadn’t yet noticed. I looked like a frog. I smiled like a Muppet. One told me to stop looking at him with my big weird eyes. I looked in the mirror at my flat chest and my freckles and hear a sound. It was the demon. He moved in and demanded the top bunk. The demon still visits me often. I wish I could tell you that being on TV or having a nice picture in a magazine suddenly washes all of those thoughts away, but it really doesn’t.” People Magazine
Kesha
KESHA
“I was often bullied and shamed into hiding the things that made me unique. I remember hanging up the velvet pants I had made by hand and asking my mother to take me to the GAP to buy some normal clothes at one point. That experiment failed miserably. because it just wasn’t me. When I think about the kind of bullying I dealt with as a child and teen, it seems almost quaint compared with what goes on today. The amount of body shaming and baseless slut-shaming online makes me sick. I know from personal experience how comments can mess up somebody’s self confidence and sense of self worth. I have felt so unlovable after reading cruel words written by strangers who don’t know a thing about me.” People Magazine