15 Superstars Who Were Bullied As Kids

Bullying is a conundrum that has existed for a long time. Children who were victims of bullying went through a really tough time that negatively affected their growing up. While many of them may sink deep into the quagmire of observations of being bullied, others can get over that and become stronger.
Many currently successful celebrities were victims of being bullied during their childhood. They now earn admiration and respect in spades, yet they were teased and even attacked for many reasons, be it their different visual, characteristics, or even their dream and passion for being actors or singers. That shaped a painful childhood for them.
In this post, we enlist 15 superstars who were bullied as children. From pop icon Justin Timberlake to Hollywood actress Jessica Alba, and even the king of action movie Jackie Chan, they will hit you hard with their bullying stories. Scroll down to check them out.

#1 Rihanna

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Rihanna had a tragic childhood. Not only growing up with a father who is an alcoholic and a drug addict, the Barbadian singer was also bullied at school. She was claimed of having different visuals, with her green eyes and complexion that was considered too pale back.
"I was a little confused as a kid because I grew up with my mum, and my mum is Black," she shared with Allure. "So I was cultured in a very 'Black' way. But when I go to school, I'm getting called 'white.' They would look at me and would curse me out. I didn't understand. I just knew I saw people of all different shades and I was light. Now I'm in a much bigger world."

#2 Priyanka Chopra

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The beautiful actress Priyanka Chopra experienced being bullied at her high school. In an interview with Glamour, she shared: “There was this girl who was a major bully. I think she didn’t like me because her boyfriend liked me, or some high school dynamic. She made my life hell. She used to call me names and would push me against the locker. High school’s hard for everybody, and then there’s this woman. I asked my mom, ‘What do you think about me coming back?’ She flew down and picked me up.”>

#3 Justin Timberlake

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Justin Timberlake is now a pop icon, yet he went through the ordeal of being bullied when he was at school. He was teased and called "weird" for some of his differences at this time: "I got picked on all the time. I had terrible acne, weird hair.", he continued "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. But everything that you get picked on for is essentially what's going to make you sexy as an adult."

#4 Sandra Bullock

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The actress Sandra Bullock had a tough time growing up. She shared: "Junior high was not a good time. I'd just come back from living in Europe and I was very, er, Germanic, so you could say."
She also had some funny shares about her lips: "What would I wish someone would have said to me at 12 when I had my speech impediment?" she reflected. "What do I want to say to little girls I know? Keep saying, 'Don't change. Be who you are.'"

#5 Blake Lively

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“The Rhythm Section” actress was teased for her height at school. When posing with the Sesame Street character, she wrote: "Kids used to make fun of me in elementary school by calling me Big Bird (because I was 'too tall 'and had 'yellow' hair). Here's to making best buddies with the things that once hurt you,"

#6 Jennifer Lawrence

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In an interview with The Sun, Lawrence shared her ordeal when she was at school: “They were less mean in middle school because I was doing alright, although this one girl gave me invitations to hand out to her birthday party that I wasn't invited to.”
Yet she added: "I just hocked a loogie on them and threw them in the trash can," she quipped. "Don't worry about the b----es. That could be a good motto, because you come across people like that throughout your life."

#7 Jessica Alba

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The Hollywood attractive star Jessica Alba is known as a "tough nut.", yet she has a reason for being like that. "I'm tough now because as a kid I never fought back. I didn't want to lower myself to the level of the bullies. I started to really blossom into my looks when I was about 14 or 15, but I actually felt embarrassed about being pretty. My physical strength became my hard shell."
She added: "I was bullied so badly my dad used to have to walk me into school so I didn't get attacked. I'd eat my lunch in the nurse's office so I didn't have to sit with the other girls. Apart from my being mixed race, my parents didn't have money so I never had the cute clothes or the cool backpack."

#8 Christina Hendricks

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"My school days were pretty unhappy," Christina Hendricks shared with the Mirror. "I had the worst high school experience ever. I went to a very mean school and was bullied like crazy. There was a long corridor with lockers on either side and kids would sit on top of them and spit on you. It was like something out of Lord of the Flies."

#9 Tom Holland

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Tom Holland has a massive love for performing, but that also causes him to be bullied. He said to People in 2017: "There were times when I was bullied about dancing and stuff, but you couldn't hit me hard enough to stop me from doing it.”

#10 Jackie Chan

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This name may surprise you, yet Jackie Chan was bullied back in the day and he was too timid to defend himself. "I was bullied quite a lot when I was growing up in my Peking Opera School," he added "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."

#11 Tyra Banks

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It broke our hearts to learn that some of the beautiful women were bullied. Tyra Banks once admitted: "When I was 11, I grew 3 inches and lost 30 pounds in three months. So I went from being a cute, chubby little girl to shooting up, [weighing] 98 pounds, and just looking sick and frail."
As a result of that, her classmates began to treat her badly: "I was the brunt of every joke, every bad thing. I hated my reflection in the mirror. I would try to stuff food down my throat to gain weight."

#12 Robert Pattinson

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Of all people, Edward freaking Cullen experienced bullying as a teenager. Robert Pattison, a lovely and talented man, admitted in his well-known, self-deprecating way: “I got beaten up by a lot of people when I was younger. I was a bit of an idiot, but I always thought the assaults were unprovoked. It was after I first started acting and I liked to behave like an actor, or how I thought an actor was supposed to be, and that apparently provoked a lot of people into hitting me.”

#13 Kate Winslet

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One of the most talented and well-known actors in the world today, Kate Winslet, told Marie Claire: "I was bullied for being chubby. Where are they now?!"
Kate acknowledged that, on occasion, she still identifies with the timid young woman who was once given the term "Blubber." She was reportedly once confined inside a cabinet for art. Kids can be such jerks, man! But, like she said, who's laughing now?

#14 Kate Middleton

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The Duchess of Cambridge actually had a Cinderella-like when she was young. Although Kate hasn't corroborated any of the claims, tales of how badly she was bullied range from girls snatching her books to torturing her because she was a "sitting duck."

#15 Christian Bale

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Even "Batman" was unable to escape the bullies. When Christian Bale was 13 years old, he appeared in Empire of the Sun, then instantly rose to fame. You'd think that would make him prom king, but the opposite happened.
He remembered: “The situation wasn't fantastic. I experienced bullying, and every day, other students would kick and hit me. It was a fundamental lesson in how producing a film can differentiate you. Don't make the movie if you don't want to deal with the fallout."
And it's obvious that those consequences have continued to affect him. "But that didn't help at the time. I was confused about other people's reactions to me, both good and bad. It can mess anyone up,"