Rose McGowan Quotes

I was bullied a lot as a kid in school from kindergarten up to third grade. I know what it feels like to be left out and to want to be different - more so, to want to not be different and want to just fit in.

I was a fat girl growing up and had to change schools because kids were so mean.

I was bullied about everything, from the way I looked to the fact that my father had been a dancer.

I was bullied mercilessly through school for my weight problem.

Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.

I remember feeling all right with myself until age 13. Then, I was getting off the bus one day and this guy called me Miss Piggy. That was the first time I ever really felt like I wasn't okay.

I paid for my name a lot when I was growing up because other kids teased me.

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

Childhood bullying was a big part of my life.

In school I was always the funny-looking, tall, skinny kid that got made fun of because of my weird teeth.

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.

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.

Junior high and elementary school, those girls were so, so mean to me.

I've been bullied because of the way I've looked growing up.

When I was in fifth grade, I got bullied really nastily about my appearance.

I was bullied from fifth grade on. They started making fun of me because my mom was in a wheelchair, then they started making fun of me because I was poor and then it evolved to my size.

There was a time in my life when I wasn't popular and accepted by kids in school. I was made fun of with braces and kinky hair and being from a multicultural family, et cetera.

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

Kids will always find something to pick on, whether it's your color, your religion, the way you look, your size. You try and stand up for yourself, but it's really difficult when you've got 20 or 30 girls against you.

At school I got harassed so badly for being too tall, too thin, too pale - too everything that has gotten me where I am now, which is quite ironic.

In school that used to happen a lot: they'd get me to sing and then they'd hate me for it.

I think everyone at school experiences some form of bullying. With kids at school, it can be anything - it can be your shoes or the wrong bag or anything. If you are big like I am, you are always going to be a target. So I decided at school to make myself an even bigger target, if you like: to make myself as big as I could be.

I think a lot of young girls go through that period in their life of finding who they are, and at that point, looking good matters the most.

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

I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.