School bullies hit beauty queen, 13, with hockey sticks

A TEENAGE beauty queen has told how she became the target of school bullies who even attacked her with hockey sticks after she won a pageant.

Sienna Demontis, from Derby, won Junior Miss Galaxy UK at 13, making her one of the country’s youngest beauty queens.

But her success has attracted anger from her peers, with her mother, Dee Thompson, revealing: “She has been surrounded, she has been hit with a hockey stick, been called names, been told she only won because she had make-up on. I think people do find it uncomfortable that she is so young.”

Sienna started out after uploading pictures from a photo shoot on to a modelling site and since then has been on a TV advert, modelled for Disney, and competed internationally.

She will feature on BBC’S Inside Out East Midlands tonight, in which she tells the programme: “There were some people that were kind of negative. I don’t think your age matters doing pageants, if you find it fun then you should just go for it.”

Ms Thompson added: “It has always been Sienna’s choice and it will always be Sienna’s choice. If she wants to walk away she can walk away.”

Holly Pirrie, from Pageant Girl Ltd, said: “There is a lot more than meets the eye.” She added that those with negative comments should go to a show to see what really happens.

Last year a 13-year-old, dubbed Britain’s tallest schoolgirl at 6ft, told how she overcame bullying about her height to win a beauty pageant.

Harriotte Lane, from Newcastle, suffered vicious name-calling but overcame the bullies to be named Junior Miss Tyne and Wear Galaxy.