Cathy Rigby Quotes

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

Prior to being bullied, I was a very footloose sixth-grader. You know, I was quirky, I was creative - I really felt good in my own body. And when I was bullied in seventh grade, my self-esteem tanked.

I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don't think they knew where to put me.

I don't know, Y'know, I always wanted to be one of those cheerleader girls and I never was that, and I was never sort of cute and perky, and I always thought it was fun to be cute and perky, and those, I don't know what those girls are doing now.

As we all know, when you're an athlete things are a little bit easier for you. It didn't mean that what was going on inside my heart wasn't a bit of a thunderstorm, but outwardly I got along ok. I was really shy in seventh grade.

When I was a kid, I was super shy.

I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.

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

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

I was a very, very shy, insecure teenager.

I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn't like me. So I never practiced.

I didn't feel attractive in high school.

I was made fun of a lot in high school because of the way I sound and the way I was.

I was at an all-girls' school, so there were a lot of us who were really awkward. I was this tall when I was 11, so I was really awkward and self-conscious. No one would really have wanted to be mean to me. I was too unimportant.

I remember dealing with bullies in high school and being put down because I was different.

I didn't go out on one date in high school.

I was actually a really sort of nervous, shy kid. In high school, it was one of those things where I wasn't popular or a loser; I just don't think many people really knew who I was.

I was the awkward, shy chick in high school.

I wasn't super-cool in high school.

The Kevin Abstract project kind of represents being socially awkward in high school, which I'm low-key kind of tired of.

I guess I sort of got bullied in high school but no more than anyone else. I felt like everyone was weird or different.

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

My freshman year of high school was just awkwardness all around.

Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

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.