14 DAY TRIAL // They call her “the new Megan Fox” both because of her good looks and her role in the “Transformers” franchise. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is now in the latest issue of GQ magazine, where she opens about being bullied in school by her peers.
And this makes for another thing that Rosie and Megan have in common: past body image-related issues.
The stunner, a model for Victoria’s Secret, says she used be bullied a lot in school before she got her big break in the industry, as Holy Moly! can confirm.
Not only was she relatively flat-chested compare to her mates, but she also had protruding lips – and this was more than enough to get her peers to mock and bully her on a constant basis.
“I used to get called [expletive] Lips – because I had big lips but no breasts. And then I was called Kipper Lips,” Rosie says.
The bullying would go beyond that, it would seem.
“There was a big group of girls that was Devon’s answer to Mean Girls, and they would storm the bathroooms shouting, ‘I’m going to [expletive]-ing deck you, Lips! See you on the school bus’,” the model turned actress recalls.
Aged 17, Rosie got her big break, even though, at the time, she really believed she didn’t stand a chance. Obviously, she was wrong and, soon enough, she was traveling the country landing contract after contract.
“I was shocked. I used to see all these supermodels walking into the agency - tall, elegant glamazons. I was just a big lump from Devon,” Rosie says of the first time she set foot in a modeling agency.
“But within a year I was travelling to America, being booked for French Connection, Tommy Hillgifer, Abercrombie & Fitch. I started to make serious money. Suddenly school didn’t seem quite so important,” she says of how she got over bullying.
Presumably shortly after that she was told she needed to lose some weight if she really wanted to be taken seriously as a model, she revealed in an interview with Elle UK, as we also informed you last week.