Katie Piper Quotes

The one-word story about why I have a chip on my shoulder is 'bullying.'

I was 'gay-bashed' when I was in school even though, you know, I'm not... I'm a straight guy that just happens to be what I do. So, it's easily relatable to me. It was awful. It's a hard time in a kid's life.

I experienced bullying in different forms.

As a child, I was a victim of bullying because of my cultural background. I didn't look like all the other kids. I had a funny name.

I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.

It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside lockers. I was burned with cigarettes. My hair was lit on fire.

There's tremendous shame with being bullied. I think there's a level at which you think that there's a reason that you're being singled out, that you're being chosen.

As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.

A lot of my friends were gay, so I was spat on on the bus daily, and I ended up in hospital a couple of times from being beaten up so badly.

When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.

I think that being bullied is a shameful experience.

Childhood bullying was a big part of my life.

The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.

I got picked on a lot as a kid.

I was made fun of by a lot of other kids in such a way that I didn't feel like I was human.

I had a lot of racism growing up where I grew up. Bullied at school. It definitely encouraged me. It's like battle wounds - you come out the other side, and it just makes you tougher.

I was brutally bullied in school. I had short hair and buck teeth and kids would call out to me in the most nasty ways possible.

I can't stand it when people get bullied or feel ugly or worthless.

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

Once, in high school, on a field trip away from school, some girls brought razors to shave their legs and threw them at me and told me to kill myself. But they were all insecure. They were angry, snapping at everybody.

It was tough, so hard; it really was horrible when I was growing up. I was called so many names, all sorts.

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 have been hit from all sides, and I'm only human. They have ended up talking about the way I look, and it hurts. I have a family, and they suffer, too. It has gone over the limit, and I am tired of it. I have a wife and child, too, and I am not prepared to go on putting up with it English journalists.

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

I was badly bullied when I was in the seventh grade - relentlessly, mercilessly - by a group of 12-year-old girls. And it left me with a determination that no matter what, I had to throw my shoulders back, stick out my chin, and project a sense that no one and nothing could hurt me. That turned out to be a life-changing mistake.