Through the years, many celebrities have opened up about their experiences with bullying as youngsters. However one expertise that is fairly distinctive (and very dangerous) to celebrities is getting bullied as a result of they have been baby actors. From being solely referred to as by their characters’ names to precise violent acts in opposition to them, listed below are 13 former baby stars who’ve opened up about this horrible facet of working within the business as a child:
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Taylor Momsen mentioned that children in school teased her “relentlessly” after she performed Cindy-Lou Who within the vacation traditional How The Grinch Stole Christmas. “Each time I might begin at a brand new college or go some place else, I do not even suppose the youngsters knew my title,” she defined on her former Gossip Woman costar Penn Badgley’s podcast, Podcrushed. “I used to be simply ‘Grinch Woman.'”
“Not even my character title, simply ‘Grinch Woman…’ I received used to it, however it was alienating,” she mentioned, additionally explaining that socializing generally whereas sustaining an appearing schedule was troublesome. “I might go to highschool for a few months after which depart to go work and are available again. Making mates was all the time difficult for me.”
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Tia and Tamera Mowry mentioned that they went to their regular highschool whereas engaged on Sister, Sister and that children robotically assumed that they thought they have been “higher” than others as a result of they have been on TV. “Highschool youngsters may be imply,” Tia defined in an interview with HLN. “Our expertise as actors in highschool wasn’t actually the very best expertise.”
The bullying received so unhealthy for them, that they needed to communicate up. Tamera recalled a time she was getting her books out of her lockers, solely to listen to some bullying. “A child screamed down the corridor, ‘Your present sucks.’… I rotated and mentioned, ‘Nicely, the checks do not.'”
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Jodie Sweetin recalled that she was bullied all through her complete childhood whereas engaged on Full Home, however that issues did not get actually unhealthy till center college. “I might present as much as college and I knew individuals both wished to be my good friend as a result of they have been impressed by me, or simply wished to be round me to fuck with me,” she mentioned in an interview with Steve-O’s Wild Trip.
Jodie went on to element the kinds of bullying she endured. “I keep in mind strolling by way of the quad within the seventh grade on the primary day of college, and somebody simply chucked an apple proper at my head,” she mentioned. “They’d write shit on my locker, or deliberately attempt to journey me…it gave me an actual thick pores and skin. It ready me nicely for the web, that is for certain.”
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Sydney Sweeney mentioned that rising up in Spokane, WA (which is relatively so much smaller than LA or NY) plenty of the individuals round her had a “small city” mentality about her resolution to pursue appearing — and particularly, the dad and mom would affect their youngsters’ conduct. “They’d be like, ‘I can’t consider that Sydney’s dad and mom are letting her go to the hell-ridden metropolis,'” she advised L’Officiel. “Simply their closed-minded beliefs, and they’d discuss it on the dinner desk, and the youngsters would take it to highschool and that’s simply how all the things would go round.”
Sydney went on to elucidate how that finally led to plenty of bullying. “It received to a degree that my college needed to react and to speak to us about bullying as a result of my telephone — my dad and mom took it away due to the issues the youngsters have been saying, the voicemails they have been sending me — it received actually laborious. At such a younger age, too. I didn’t even know why on the time, I used to be like ‘what am I doing incorrect?'”
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Jonathan Lipnicki, who starred in initiatives like Stuart Little and Jerry Maguire, candidly shared how he was bullied as a baby in a now-deleted Instagram submit. “As a child/teen, I used to be made enjoyable of relentlessly by some people who find themselves now even my mates on FB,” he wrote. “I used to be advised I used to be a has-been and would by no means ebook a job once more.”
“I used to be made to really feel like rubbish every single day of center college to the purpose I had a panic assault each night time earlier than college,” he continued. “It provides me anxiousness being this open, however being bullied is a common downside. I’m not a sufferer, however slightly empowered as a result of I used to be in a position to flip to my artwork. Chase your desires, it’s wonderful how imply individuals peak of their teenagers.”
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Rivkah Reyes defined that that they had a troublesome time at school after enjoying Katie in College of Rock. “After I first got here again to highschool, individuals have been very nice or actually imply. There was no center floor,” they advised the New York Submit. “I used to be actually adopted across the college with individuals chanting College of Rock.”
“I will always remember one woman who got here as much as me and requested me to signal her lunch card, then tore it up and threw it within the trash in entrance of me,” they continued. “Youngsters would scream College of Rock quotes at me within the halls. It was annoying and embarrassing. I consistently felt trapped. If I reacted to them positively, I used to be labeled a bragging snob. If I reacted negatively or ignored them, I used to be labeled a chilly, ungrateful bitch.”
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Megan Fox as soon as revealed to Glamour that she was bullied at school as a result of everybody knew she was an aspiring actor. “There have been some evil ladies in my college and I went to a Christian highschool. I used to be 15 and all people knew that my aspiration in life was to develop into an actress.”
“One woman got here to highschool on Halloween in a black leather-based catsuit and everybody thought she was catwoman. She answered, ‘No I’m Megan Fox’. She was making enjoyable of me. I did not say something to her. I used to be actually shy.”
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Natalie Portman talked about how she did not have a simple time at school as a result of it was “awkward” to go on set after which return to be with the opposite youngsters. “I imply I feel individuals get bullied for all kinds of causes and that’s a fortunate motive to be bullied for since you are doing one thing that you just love, I imply in case you are doing one thing that you just love,” Natalie shared on The Drew Barrymore Present.
Natalie defined that the entire expertise truly made her much more tuned in to how others are handled. “I do suppose that that type of creates your empathy, like being on that facet of the teasing definitely makes you by no means need to make anybody really feel like that ever once more.”
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And Drew Barrymore advised Natalie that she utterly associated to what she needed to say, and hadn’t heard many individuals categorical it earlier than. “The irony is that they might all the time say to me, ‘You suppose you’re so particular,'” Drew shared. “I used to be like, ‘I not solely don’t suppose I’m particular however you might be completely confirming I’m not.'”
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Jenna Ortega nonetheless went to an everyday public college up till she began appearing on the Disney Channel and mentioned in an interview on Jimmy Kimmel Stay that appearing in commercials and different initiatives did not make her a “massive deal” in school and most “did not care” as a result of on the time neither she nor her classmates actually anticipated her profession would take off, however that she did get some “bizarre random remarks” from her friends about it.
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Mara Wilson — who starred in childhood classics like Matilda and Mrs. Doubtfire — opened up about how by the point she was a teen, individuals in her private life have been terrible to her. “My sixth-grade crush had referred to as me ugly, movie reviewers mentioned I used to be ‘odd trying,’ and a boy at my preteen day camp had mentioned to me, ‘You have been Matilda? Heh. You’ve gained a little bit weight since then!’ I went house and cried right into a milkshake,” she wrote in The Guardian.
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Josh Peck mentioned that after his breakout position on Nickelodeon’s Drake & Josh, he was teased so much in school. “I received crushed, my complete life,” he mentioned on the About Final Night time with Adam Ray podcast. He additionally defined that it felt particularly brutal as a result of youngsters basically haven’t any filter. “No child would not really feel snug telling you proper to your face.”
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Lastly, Alyson Hannigan talked about being teased a lot about being in a Mylanta business the place she needed to discuss her dad’s indigestion. “It type of traumatized me a little bit bit,” she advised Drew Barrymore on The Drew Barrymore Present. “I had an audition for a female hygiene product proper after that, I used to be already so mortified…and I used to be like, I am unable to do that.”
