{"id":142914,"date":"2025-11-19T11:54:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/142914\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T11:54:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:54:04","slug":"i-have-always-been-bullied-for-my-physical-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/142914\/","title":{"rendered":"I have always been bullied for my physical appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"article-123\">TikTok personality Sheedon has opened up about enduring childhood bullying, verbal abuse, stigma, mockery, and discrimination because of her physical appearance.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, she comes from a family where everyone is tall, but she turned out to be small-statured. \u201cPeople in our family are very tall. I\u2019m the only small-statured one,\u201d she revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Sheedon explained that her childhood was especially difficult because she was so different from the rest of her family. She became aware of her physical difference at the age of nine, which led to emotional pain and social exclusion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/entertainment\/Sheedon-recounts-2024-election-campaign-journey-and-online-trolls-2009980\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sheedon recounts 2024 election campaign journey and online trolls<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could see everyone was complete during games at school. I was the odd one out. After school, people would mock and bully me. They called me \u2018dwarf\u2019, \u2018Adwoa Smart\u2019,\u201d she recounted. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA woman even warned me not to eat with her child because I didn\u2019t deserve to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the emotional toll, Sheedon said she refused to succumb to insults and bullying. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have confidence in me. I don\u2019t give in to such stuff. I know people will troll me, so I became used to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her sister, known as Lil Don\u2019t Do, who appeared with her on the Delay Show, described how deeply the mistreatment affects their family. She praised Sheedon\u2019s resilience, insisting that her sister\u2019s courage surpasses her own.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel bad about how people treat her, but you can\u2019t intimidate her. She has more confidence in herself than I do. What the tall can\u2019t do, she does,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She also admitted to being fiercely protective of Sheedon: \u201cWhen I\u2019m with her and someone tries to abuse her, I\u2019ll fight for her. Even if you say nothing but look at her in a certain manner, I will confront you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sheedon\u2019s story highlights the importance of self-acceptance and strong support systems in overcoming stigma and discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>PAT\/JE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TikTok personality Sheedon has opened up about enduring childhood bullying, verbal abuse, stigma, mockery, and discrimination because of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-142914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}