Girls at School Tortured Me, Hayden Panettiere Tells Details

We’ve grown so accustomed to hearing celebrities complain about the hardships of being famous and loved by millions of people that we often tend to shrug off their words without a second thought. Still, Hayden Panettiere tells the latest issue of Details magazine that being constantly in the spotlight changes your life in ways you can’t even imagine at first, and she can personally vouch for that.

She’s 19 but Panettiere definitely has had to grow up faster than most girls her age, Details says. Once she became an international star, as well as the icon for an entire generation with her part as the cheerleader in “Heroes,” the highly successful television series, Hayden realized her life would never be the same, mostly in the sense that she would never get to be a normal girl again. The first hint into that direction was when girls at school started to literally torment her, simply for being who she was.

“I was tortured, emotionally tortured by these girls. Every time I came back from filming, it would be me trying to find my way back into the clique. And they weren’t having it.” Hayden recalls for the mag. Still, if she were given a chance at doing things differently, she wouldn’t change anything about her life. Sadness. “I never felt I missed out – in fact, it was like, ‘Oh, thank God I’m not like that’.” Panettiere says of what acting meant for her and in what ways it has influenced her life as a normal girl.

As we were also telling you a while back, Panettiere has become a favorite with the celebrity media not only on account of her stunning looks, but also because she always comes across as very down to earth, which means audiences can relate to her. Just recently, the star was speaking about body image – hers, to be more specifically – and blasted out at those outlets who post photos of her with cellulite and then attack her as if she wasn’t a regular woman, a human being made of flesh and bones – and cellulite.

“I can’t tell you how many times I’ve thanked God and my parents for raising me in a place that was so humbling and so outside any of that stuff. I mean I live criticism every day. I’d go walk my dogs and I used to walk them in my PJ’s and now I have to make sure I look half decent or else I’ll get trashed. Or like having cellulite on the back of your legs. ‘I’m sorry, I’m a woman. I don’t know what you want me to tell you, I’m sorry. It’s not going to go away. I can’t do anything about it. I apologize if I offended you’.” Panettiere was saying at the time.

Hayden Panettiere can be seen in “I Love You, Beth Cooper,” currently running in US theaters.