And the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind actress has a message for her bullies: “You were bloody horrible to me, and you should be ashamed.”
While Kate—mom to 12-year-old son Bear with husband Edward Abel Smithas well as kids Mia25, and Joe22, from previous marriages—continued to deal with bullying in high school, she used the negativity as motivation.
“I learned to have a pretty thick skin fairly early on, to be honest,” she shared. “But at the time it was happening, I just threw myself into my theatre company and my creative world outside of school, so that the school mean people became as insignificant as I could possibly make them.”
As the Goodbye June director put it, “I wouldn’t let them spoil a trajectory that I was determined I was on.”
Kate isn’t the only celeb whose heart went on to call out body shamers. Read on for more stars who’ve stood up to critics.
