Cheryl James Quotes

I think Pete did have a hard time as a kid with his appearance. But don't all kids have a hard time? God, I had a hard time, too. I was little with bow legs and rickets. I used to get picked on like everybody used to get picked on.

I was a fat kid. I can laugh now. But I got teased about being an Oompa Loompa and stuff like that.

I was a teenage girl once. I was not an overweight teenage girl, but I had really bad acne when I was 11 or 12 years old. It was heart-rending, and people made fun of me. People whispered when I walked by in the hallways, and I was sure they were whispering about me. My adult perspective is maybe they weren't.

People called me 'cottage cheese thighs' all through school.

At school, I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking.

I did get bullied and I did get picked on and I did have that feeling in my gut of being incredibly self-conscious. I naturally gravitated towards my elders because I didn't know how to speak or be present with my peers.

When I was labeled stupid, that scarred me forever.

Who has the best features? This was a little game, conducted several times and always with the same results, in seventh grade, the time when so many of life's little horrors begin.

I was teased up until high school about my hair, being short, my high pitched voice, and just anything you can think of.

I really wasn't heavy in high school. But no one feels right in their own skin, particularly in high school.

As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.

I have a big forehead, and I got made fun of all time. When I was a little girl, they used to call me 'five-head.'

My brothers used to call me Bob. They'd laugh at me, and I didn't get it. I'm 13 years old at the time, and then one day my brother's friend says, 'You know what Bob stands for? 'Booty on back.' You're fat.' Like my butt was so big I could reach for my wallet over my shoulder. And I broke down.

All my life people have made fun of me because I was so skinny. They kind of made me feel bad about it sometimes. I worried that maybe people will think I am really anorexic.

When I was a teenager, I was super-awkward. I don't think I really felt comfortable in my body or with how I looked, and people were nasty.

My hair was always frizzy. I always wanted to be blonde with lovely straight hair. I was very skinny. I was quite tomboyish, just very quiet. I always wanted to fit in; I just couldn't.

Being a big kid, I was kind of fat and chubby, and I got picked on quite a bit.

I was called fried eggs and all that at school. Size does matter.

Growing up as a little kid, I wasn't always this size. I got picked on a lot.

I was very, very underdeveloped for my age, I hated what I looked like, so I thought everyone had gone stark raving mad.

In high school, people wanted to find the worst in me.

When I was a teenager, I was fat. I was shy. I wore glasses. I had a big eyebrow and hair all over my body. They were years of torture.

I was fortunate to have had a lively, happy childhood, but somewhere along the way I convinced myself I wasn't wanted anywhere or by anyone if I wasn't thin.

As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.

Growing up, I had a ton of friends, and I had a great life, but people still made fun of me sometimes.