Laura Whitmore Quotes

Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me.

We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.

In every high school, there is a clique.

I was very average in the social label scale going through school. I was neither the coolest person in school, nor did I suffer the slings and arrows of being made fun of to such a degree that I couldn't get through the day.

In my teens, I was never part of the cool crowd.

I had a lot of friends who were boys. I played ball with them, but we didn't date. They didn't ask me that much because I wasn't cute enough or because I didn't drink or party.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'

I'm an 18-year-old boy, and I'm having fun. I'm just not having as much fun as people make out.

What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern.

As teenagers, we all see ourselves as outsiders... and it's very easy to look at other people who are more popular, who have more pocket money, and it makes you feel even more like an outsider, and it does shape who you become as a person.

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.

I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle ground. You have the really popular guys, you have the nerdy guys, and then you have the people who really don't care - and that was me. I wasn't really picked on or anything like that.

In high school, there are so many cliques. You're never safe.

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

In high school, I definitely fancied myself an intense guy, which is so lame.

Girls started noticing me a little bit more in senior year, and junior year, and that was weird.

I met some friends in the end of 10th, beginning of 11th, who were in the popular group so I finished off high school in that group and got to see both sides.

I was definitely not one of the cool girls in Suffern High School.

When you're 12, you have no gauge for what's hip or not hip - or even who you are.

As teenagers, we go through social, emotional and physical changes... and sometimes, to feel comfortable, we end up doing things that are not true to who we are just to fit in and feel loved.

I think I was a pretty normal kid. I wasn't the prom queen, but I wasn't a freak, either.

I couldn't quite get the hang of how to socialise as a teenager. I didn't really understand it.

In junior high, I really wanted to be popular. Suddenly there were parties with boys, and I wanted to be part of that. There was a group of girls, and I wanted to be friends with them.

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.

I was never considered cool throughout my teens: a very important time to be accepted by someone, especially your peers. Yes, I had all the screaming women, but the guys hated my guts.