“I was ugly growing up and people bullied Me for it” – Beverly Naya
The actress shared this in an interview with media personality, Chude Jidenowo and revealed that bullying greatly affected her as a schoolgirl.
According to her, she was not beautiful as a child because of some skin conditions and also crooked teeth which caused her peers to mock her.
In her words;
“In my formative years, I was always getting bullied for one thing or the other.
No no matter what school I was in, I always felt like there was always going to be something that I was going to get attacked for.
So, when I was younger, I was an ugly duckling. I wasn’t cute.
also, I don’t care what my mom says.
I was not a cute kid. I had crooked teeth and eczema.
And I just didn’t look good as far as I was concerned. And as far as people around me were concerned.
I used to get called ‘snakeskin, buck teeth, light bulb head, football legs’. Just different kinds of stuff and then I just blossomed.
My skin cleared, I got braces, and I just kind of blossomed.
And I started to kind of feel beautiful for the first time in my life around 16.
However, i think I probably was owning it a bit too much for some people in my school. I got bullied for that and it really broke me.
I was like ‘look, I can’t win’. When I was younger, I was getting bullied for being ugly and unattractive.
And now I finally feel like I’m beautiful and I’m trying to own it, that’s now the problem. I’m now getting bullied for that.
So, I got ganged up on and ended up with a black eye, and a chipped tooth, on the same day.”