Renee Olstead Quotes

I got picked on a lot. I was a complete geek in school. I had braces. I didn't have the hot girlfriend. I wasn't ever sought after. I was a stocky, awkward kid who got laughed off the tennis court when I tried that.

I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.

People called me sharktooth, Dracula. I got made fun of so much cause I couldn't afford braces.

I was totally picked on, but look at me now! I was definitely picked on by boys and girls. I was really lanky and skinny and the boys would say, 'Turn sideways and stick out your tongue, you look like a zipper.'

Don't forget, I was the soft, pudgy kid in school that everyone made fun of.

I remember one time when all the nuns in my Catholic grade school got around in a semicircle, me and Mom in the middle, and they said, 'Mrs. Farley, the children at school are laughing at Christopher, not with him.' I thought, 'Who cares? As long as they're laughing.'

'Gut' was my nickname. And I was picked on terribly by many, many kids.

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

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

Sarfati. That's my real last name. I don't use it a lot because I got 'Lea So-fatty,' 'Lea So-farty' at school.

I had a nickname in junior high, and I'm loathe to say this: 'potato lady.'

I was always the last one chosen for football games in Central Park.

You see, I'd not a very good place here; the fellows looked on me as a sort of special object of ridicule, on account of the hat and cane, walk, and so on, though I thought I'd got over that by this time.

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

When you're a kid, you don't want to be teased.

People used to always laugh at my hair, stuff like that.

I was this eggheady kid, the one who was consistently beaten up and picked last for the baseball teams.

Of course, after like, three or four years of being called a loser and putting on bad suits and having the sweat and all that stuff put on me, it does start to get to you after a while.

I was called such names as a kid. Being the smallest boy in the class with a name like Caroll. I remember going home and saying to my mom, 'What were you thinking?'

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

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.

Growing up, I was picked on a bit; I was pretty heavy-set, and then I was a theater kid. I just felt unpopular and uncool, so I think in my mind I had this idea of fame and being popular and how nice that would be. The reality of it is sometimes it's not nice.

I used to make fun of the kids in school who acted or went to dance class.

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.

By high school, I was already tall - 5-foot-8 - and one day I made the mistake of wearing green tights. The football players all started calling me the Jolly Green Giant.