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
DEVYN RUSH
“When I was being bullied at school, I would take all the mean things everyone said to me, and I would say them to myself 3000 times. What happens when you say something to yourself over and over again?… You start to believe it. I remember the first time I tried to say “I Love You” to myself. I looked in the mirror and said it. It was so painfully difficult. I didn’t believe it. But then I said it again. And again. And again. And now, after saying things like “I Love You” and “I Am Enough” 3000 times, I really believe it. One of my new affirmations is, “I have no room for negativity. I am filled to the brim with love!” I’m helping myself believe new positive affirmations all the time. It’s just like working a muscle.” From Devyn’s I AM ENOUGH bullying and suicide prevention school assembly & mini-concert for Hey U.G.L.Y. – Unique Gifted Lovable You
DEREK HOUGH
“I was bullied as a young boy. They would tie my ankles up with a very rough rope and hang me in a tree upside down, spit on me and call me names, even hold a gun to my head. I
didn’t tell anybody — my parents or teachers or friends or sisters. I know now that the worst thing you can do is suffer in silence.” GLSEN Gala
DEMI LOVATO
“I had a really tough time when I was in middle school. People would write ‘hate petitions’ [about me] and send them around to be signed. They’d have CD-bashing parties of my demos. They’d come to my house, stand across the street and yell things. It was a very emotional time for me, and all I wanted to do was get away.” People Magazine
CHRISTINA HENDRICKS
“I had the worst high school experience ever. I went to a very mean school and was bullied like crazy… If I could go back and tell my 14-year-old self anything it would be, ‘Don’t worry. You’re going to be doing exactly what you want to be doing and those people who are a***holes now are still going to be a***holes in 20 years. So let it go!’” UK Mirror
CHRISTIAN BALE
“I took a beating from several boys for years. They put me through hell, punching and kicking me all the time.” People Magazine
ANSEL ELGORT
“I went through a lot of bullying in middle school and it made me so upset all the time. I hated my life. I hated everything. I live in New York City in a high building with a little terrace. I’d go on the terrace and I’d look off the terrace and I literally just thought about jumping off because I hated living so much. It does make it so hard when your that age and everyone is being mean to you at school and you have to go to school every day and deal with people being mean to you. You feel like what you have to say isn’t important and that you’re not important. The way that I coped with it was making another group of friends outside of that group of people who were mean to me so that I had some sort of support system. Then I focused all my energy on acting and dancing and singing and music so that I felt like I had a purpose that sort of took me out of it and made me forget about it a little bit and it made it a lot better.” BystanderRevolution.org