Bullied by trolls for having famous father
MISS Clarkson has become a target for online bullies because she has a celebrity father, she reveals in her book.
A chapter, Dear Online Trolls, says the online abuse started when she was 17, with people ‘having a go at me simply because I had a famous dad, and you reckoned because of this I was fair game’.
Insults included ‘another brainless vapid celebrity spawn spending Daddy’s money’, ‘bloated mess’ and ‘lump of lard’, Miss Clarkson recalls.
Other comments included ‘Has Clark- son’s daughter eaten Richard Hammond?’ and ‘Looks like Vicky Pollard’. She writes: ‘There’s only so many of these you can read before you want to lock yourself in a room and cry until you can’t any more.
‘Surely you have to see this isn’t right? That really, no one deserves this. That seventeen-year-old, insecure little me – who at this point had literally done no more to warrant this abuse than be alive – didn’t deserve this. I should have been allowed to carry my puppy fat in peace, and my grown-up fat for that matter, without the fear that one of you low-lifes was going to try and tear me down. We’ve somehow got to the point where no one is safe online.’
Miss Clarkson also reveals: ‘Other than my weight, one of the biggest topics of conversation regarding my appearance that seem to pop up often is the size of my forehead. Apparently it’s enormous. Apparently I look like an alien. I did always suspect this to be the case, if I’m honest. I don’t remember a whole lot from my prep school but one thing I do remember quite clearly was a guy in my class telling me I had a face that looked like a plate because my forehead was “ginormous”.’
She adds: ‘To anyone currently being bullied at school and feeling that it will never end because the perpetrators will always be more powerful and more successful and more good-looking than you, you need to remember that people like this never grow up to be the people that you, or they, thought they would. Trust me.’