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    "But someday we'll all be old
    And I'll be so damn beautiful" (lyrics)

    Were any of you the "ugly duckling" and became a swan? Just wondering. At this point in my life, I'd love to go back to all of the people that made fun of me and show them what they've lost out on.

    Edit: Wow. All of your stories are so inspiring. You go, girls!
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    I was. From 10-17 I was fat. I'm 5'4, and I was 160, and looked even heavier. I have incredibly thick, curly hair, and I couldn't do anything with it, so it just was frizzy and everywhere. I had big glasses, braces, acne.

    Then one summer I got it together. I lost 40 pounds, got contacts, had my braces taken off, and discovered the wonders of ceramic straighteners.

    It was quite fun telling all the guys who were rude to me to fuck off when they tried to hit on me.

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    ^ OH yeah, kandie!!!!
    I had all these strikes against me too, except for the weight....I was so tiny and shy, and people stomped all over me. I kept my head down all the time from near-cystic acne.
    The funniest thing that happened lately was a guy who picked on me and my best pal in junior high was trying to strut in front of me...he looks like the living dead now, like he has a bad meth and booze habit....I just ignore the guy, he's not even worth the effort of noticing him....

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    Infantile paralysis, autism, melancholia. Is that enough? Want to go on? Skinny girl, eating disorders, nervous, no understanding from siblings or family. Oh well, all part of growing up.
    Like it says, to the extinction of the past, Yeah!

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    Ugly duckling - yes... just a dork, bookworm, teachers pet.. not necessarily ugly but your typical nerd. got picked on daily and quite a few times was beat up on the walk home from school.. at least monthly.. was always scared at school.. had 1 friend (another nerd) Im so glad those years are over.. but they still stick with me.. still have issues from it.. still dealing... dont think the pain and hurt self esteem/insecurities go away... ever...

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    Yep.. Nerd and super skinny... like 100 pounds all the way thru highschool and a dork. Went to my ten year and no one knew who the hell I was.. It was a great feeling..


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    I was chubby in high school. I was, like, very quiet and afraid to stand out too much. A few years after I graduated, I started cocktail waitressing...bartending...and working out. Went from 180 to 125...and very much enjoyed telling the "high school" crowd to f*ck off.

    When I was dancing last year, the guy that I had the biggest crush on in high school...and wouldn't give me the time of day happened into my club. He didn't even recognize me...and after my several dances with him...when he was fawning all over me and asking where I've been all his life (loser) I just said, "You know...it's funny...in high school you wouldn't give me the time of day...and now...the only reason I'm talking to you is cuz you have money." *wink, wink* His jaw hit the floor when I told him who I really was and he was just like, "Well, you know, that was high school." But, you know...it sucked to be him. LOL

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    Yes I was. I REALLY hope my high school has their 10 year reunion next summer. I WANT to say neener to at LEAST 20 people. Muhahahahahaa!
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    ^Ugh...sorry for the thread jack, but I just realized that this is my 6,005 post!!

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    Very overweight (heaviest was 285) until I was 19, acne, dykie, brainy, shy, push-over. Now I'm muscular (still got a lil chubb but it's leaving me), have cute dimples and a noticeable jaw line, not as dykie, acne is almost gone, and pretty damn cute. I saw a guy that used to beat me up on a regular basis the other day in the store. He couldn't believe it. He had to do a double take. It's fun surprising people now. Plus, like Kandie_Kitten said, it's fun seeing people who used to tease you incessantly years ago want to be your friend or hit on you now. I love giving them the same warm response and regards they used to give me, if I even choose to acknowledge them. Success is the best revenge.
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    I was a curvy African/Caucasian girl growing up in a neighbourhood full of skinny Asians and Caucasians. My mother was white...so I had no point of reference for my own unique beauty.
    I could never have the hairstyles my friends had. I could never fit the styles of clothing they wore...and since we were very poor...I couldn't afford it anyway.
    All these things compounded to make me feel very unnattractive. I used to hide my figure in oversized skater clothes and shaved my head so that I didn't have to deal with the afro hair.

    Then after highschool, something strange happened. I had a personal renaissance and realized that I was selling myself short. I started eating better and working out. I also paid more attention to grooming and dressing for my figure.

    Sometimes, I still lement my overly ample thighs and not so perky boobies...but all in all I realize that I am a natural beauty.

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    I hated high school. It was this petty and shallow microcosm where everyone thought the most insignificant event or social trend was of the utmost importance. Out of a class of 250, I had three friends. I was invisible to girls, and that was probably to their benefit--I had bad hair, bad clothes, a lanky and awkward teenage boy build, and bad acne = no confidence and no attention.

    Fast forward 15 years to about three months ago.

    I'm at the gym, doing my thing, Death's Sound of Perserverance coming through the MP3 player, and this blonde girl approaches me at the incline fly machine. She taps my shoulder between a set and says, "Hi!"

    I look up and say, "Hi?" having no idea who I'm talking to.

    "Don't you remember me?"

    "Um, you look familar." (I have no friggin' clue who this is)

    I look more closely at her face, and recognize her...um...chest.

    "Oh, of course, you're Debbie!"

    Debbie was a former girlfriend at the end of high school--though it was a short affair by any standard. 15 years of wisdom, education and fitness had done wonders for me in just about every aspect--no more acne, a decent haircut, thirty pounds of added muscle, a couple college degrees and a boatload of confidence. I don't know how she recognized me. We chatted very briefly to catch up--she'd become a nurse and divorced mother of one, I'd been in the military and was now in grad school. I felt pretty good from where I was sitting, but she had dumped me pretty unceremoniously back in the day and for a complete putz (the father of her child).

    Anyway, I see her in there every once in a while now, and she always makes a point to stop, smile and flirt. Time has been kinder to me than her, and knowing that doesn't completely suck.

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    Coming from an elite professional family and being sent off to exclusive boarding school is no guarrantee of childhood bliss. You either got to belong to a certain clique, be of certain physical type, have blessed acne free facial features or you are going to catch hell.
    Suffering from dyslexia, being autistic, and general stupid clumsiness and nervousness can give you very heightened sexual intimidation and abuse, both physical and mental in those so called "sophisticated" education institutions.
    I swear, if I ever meet one of the so-called associates from that period of my tormented childhood, and a bumper jack is nearby, I will club them.
    I am sorry, it is just the way I feel.

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    wow...yes, i can relate to all of these posts! former ugly duckling here! was overweight until the age of 19 or so...and was a complete nerd in all the marching band regalia and chemistry clubs there were. then i worked out lots (and had a stupid eating disorder) and lost weight. have maintained a healthy weight without the ED habits. i've also seen people from high school at various clubs i used to work at. one guy even asked me out (he was never mean to me, so we had coffee twice)! i think the best revenge was dancing for the husband of a girl who was a bit rude to me in highschool. he came in to my old club and we were talking about where we were from, and he mentioned his wife went to my high school and graduated in my class. i remembered her, and then the guy asked for a few dances. she'll never know, of course, but it still is a great feeling. have seen a few other people, and they are like, "holy fuck.....you're HER?" my reunion will be cool!

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    Coming from an elite professional family and being sent off to exclusive boarding school is no guarrantee of childhood bliss. You either got to belong to a certain clique, be of certain physical type, have blessed acne free facial features or you are going to catch hell
    EXACTLY! I didn't go to boarding school and I would never have called my family elite (in fact they are pretty weird) but I did go to a really really really snotty school from Kindergarten through 8th grade. Then FINALLY my mom let me leave but the damage was done. I was the school freak. I bleached my hair and put purple streaks in it (and I'm 33 so that is long before that was even halfway common) and everybody made fun of me and called me "Madonna." I've actually seen some of the guys from that school out at a party one night where I was all dressed up in a halter top, leather pants, and had my face done up and they actually recognized me and were cool as can be to me and we hung out a while.

    All in all that school fucked me up. I got a good education, yes. The teachers were awesome. BUT the kids were so damn snobby I got a really limited view of the world. I didn't know there were all these other people out there that exist and only saw the richest of the rich so I thought I was poor. When I switched to public school it was totally different and I actually made some good friends who accepted that I was weird.

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    yes.. i was always really cute growing up.. Then became anorexic at 12 or so.. and looked HORRIBLE!

    I started gaining weight back at 16 or so, and was at my ideal weight by 17...the guys started noticing and i started "stealing" boyfriends.. (NOT GOOD!)

    Then i switched schools and fit right in!

    But it was still nice getting all the attention after i recovered!

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    I was a Dorkus Majorus in high school! I still am, I just hide it better now Nose always in a book, marching band, and to make matters even worse, I was in a choir ensemble that wore Colonial Williamsburg costumes! I always had really mesed up hair, cuz i couldn't afford to get it done all the time like everyone else. Guys would play the "hey, he likes you!" game as a joke on me all the time. My 1st date was my senior prom

    Isn't it funny how all those "cool" people that picked on us dorks in HS all look like sh*t now?

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    I didn't consider myself okay looking intil I turned fourteen or fifteen. I remeber a guy in sixth grade that said I was the ugliest girl he ever saw!! I will never for get that as long as I live. For some reason that all changed when I was a freshman in high school. I got hit on alot and still do now! I still don't think I'm that pretty but alot of people try to change my mind.

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    ooh ooh ooh. Yes this is TOTALLY me. If I could go back to the town that I moved away from in Middle school, and go like during their high school reunion so i could see everyone......I would just LAUGH in all their faces. I used to be SO shy and self conscious of myself. And yes I was a BIG dork, but it's cuz I was shy. I got teased and made fun of and bullied around so bad that I cried like everyday. NOW I get comments from people ALL the time on how BEAUTIFUL I am. BUT I am sorta glad I went from ugly duckling (and actually went through the stage) to swan cuz it taught me to be humble and appreciate who I am for me, not because of my looks. I'm not vain at ALL compared to some people who are beautiful their whole life.

    I didn't start wearing makeup or caring about my clothes until like junior year of high school. BUt the new town I lived in, no one really cared to notice that I was a quiet timid little girl. I didn't start to get attention from guys until like senior year. Ever since then I'mm obsessed with makeup, hair, fashion. I remember in like 8th grade and freshman year I REFUSED to wear the color pink (tomboy) NOW I can't get enough of it.

    The best part of it, was I was in marching band and stuff like that..... and I STILL got noticed once I changed. It was almost COOL to be in marching band

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    Oh.... I did have one encounter with an old school associate. I went back to hang with my best friend bout 4 years ago. I transformed by then. Anyway, we pull into a parking lot and I see this kid walking by....I recognize him cuz go figure HE still looks EXACTLY the same. Of course my BF is friends with him, pulls up and starts chatting. After a few minutes my BF goes.....Hey do you remember INSERT NAME ? The guy kinda chuckles and is like...yeah. MY BF just does the thumb jab at me and goes, this is her. The LOOK on his face was pricless. Jaw drops. Doesn't say anything. I smile. My BF drives off. CLASSIC. I will never forget that.


    U know, I've noticed a steady trend that a lot of us were nerdy, or just plain outcast because we were shy. Interesting how we all became strippers in the end.

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    ^I wonder if we are making up for the attention we didn't get when we were younger? Or maybe trying to replace the negative attention with positive attention? Or maybe it's just a big "f.u." to all those jerks from back in the day! I noticed the same thing with all those supermodels, they all say they're former geeks,too.

    I forgot to mention that I had a jheri curl and big plastic frame glasses in middle school. Classic nerd material.

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    i had an eating disorder in middle and part of high school. So I was always really thin and didn't develop until I was about 17 (and got over the ED). i remember one kid in one of my classes who told me, in eighth grade, that I was "flat-chested."

    A couple of years later in high school, once some 34D's magically appeared, he asked me to PROM.

    hahahaha... i almost fell on the floor laughing, and went to prom with my best friend.

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    Hmm- I still feel like I'm dealing with a lot of the old high school issues (at 25, lol!). I feel kind of halfway between ugly duckling and swan...I never started on with the whole makeup and beauty bit until I started dancing 3 years ago, so it's kind of like I'm still working to figure it all out...another year or two, and I figure, and I'll hit my looks peak.

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    I was a fugly. I was also goth which really didn't suit me. Pale skin and black hair may make some girl's hot , (I think we all know that someone on this site) but it didn't help me too much, I was never overweight, but I was a total book worm, and sometimes intelligence is NOT a sign of beauty, grrr.
    In any case, I got a tan, blonde hair, grew into my face and when I ran into a few from high school, I got the jaw dropping bit. It was quite nice and to know that these people told others about the "transformation."
    I'm still glad that I don't live in my town, even though I would love to make people miserable that made me miserable, I don't think I even want to be near their sorry asses.
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    I was a chub in high school, and I was embarrassed by my tits, so I'd hunch over and wear baggy clothes and not comb my hair for 5 days. Then I went to college and lost 25 pounds, and went to study abroad in a place where women really pay attention to how they present themselves. So I started wearing makeup and dressing well, and all of a sudden the dickheads who fired spitballs at me in High School wanted to get in my knickers.

    I still see the same person in the mirror, so I'm often oblivious to attention when I'm getting it, and I still have those days when I feel like the same awkward 16 year old, even twelve years later.

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