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'Mad Men' Christina Hendricks: 'I was bullied like crazy in school'
Published Friday, Feb 17 2012, 14:28 GMT | By Daniel Sperling | 2 comments
Christina Hendricks has claimed that she felt "ugly, awkward and horrible" as a teenager.
The Mad Men actress said that she turned into a "goth kid [with] about 42 different colours" in her hair in response to being "bullied like crazy" at school.
"My school days were pretty unhappy. I had the worst high school experience ever," she told The Mirror. "I went to a very mean school and was bullied like crazy.
"I was a bit of a goth and I was also part of the drama group, so my friends and I were all weird theatre people and everyone just hated us. There was a long corridor with lockers on either side and kids would sit on top of them and spit on you. It was like something out of Lord of the Flies.
"If I could go back and tell my 14-year-old self anything it would be, 'Don't worry. You're going to be doing exactly what you want to be doing and those people who are arseholes now are still going to be arseholes in 20 years. So let it go!'"
Hendricks said that she only felt attractive for the first time when she posed for a modelling competition after leaving school.
"When I got the pictures back my mum and I started crying because I had no idea I could be pretty," she said. "I'd always felt awkward. It was the first time I really felt pretty. It just sort of changed my perspective of myself."
Hendricks recently said that she feels very comfortable being naked.
Mad Men season five will air on Sky Atlantic in the UK on March 27, just two days after its US premiere on AMC.
Watch a teaser trailer for Mad Men season five:
The Mad Men actress said that she turned into a "goth kid [with] about 42 different colours" in her hair in response to being "bullied like crazy" at school.
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"My school days were pretty unhappy. I had the worst high school experience ever," she told The Mirror. "I went to a very mean school and was bullied like crazy.
"I was a bit of a goth and I was also part of the drama group, so my friends and I were all weird theatre people and everyone just hated us. There was a long corridor with lockers on either side and kids would sit on top of them and spit on you. It was like something out of Lord of the Flies.
"If I could go back and tell my 14-year-old self anything it would be, 'Don't worry. You're going to be doing exactly what you want to be doing and those people who are arseholes now are still going to be arseholes in 20 years. So let it go!'"
Hendricks said that she only felt attractive for the first time when she posed for a modelling competition after leaving school.
"When I got the pictures back my mum and I started crying because I had no idea I could be pretty," she said. "I'd always felt awkward. It was the first time I really felt pretty. It just sort of changed my perspective of myself."
Hendricks recently said that she feels very comfortable being naked.
Mad Men season five will air on Sky Atlantic in the UK on March 27, just two days after its US premiere on AMC.
Watch a teaser trailer for Mad Men season five:
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