Charlize Theron was bullied by mean girls in school, she says

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Charlize Theron, who plays one powerful mean queen in ‘Snow White and the Huntsman,’ says she was bullied by a pack of mean girls in school.

Theron, currently working the awards circuit for an acclaimed performance in Jason Riteman’s ‘Young Adult,’ opened up about her days being teased -- days that saw a much less glamorous Charlize walking the halls.

‘I wore really nerdy glasses because I was blind as could be and the boys didn’t like [me],’ Theron said in New York, where ‘Adult’ was recently screened with Dior. ‘I didn’t have any boyfriends, but lots of crushes.’

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‘I actually got a lot of the mean-girl stuff from the ages of 7 to 12. I was pretty much a mess in primary school,’ she said. ‘But I got that out of my system by the time I got to high school and was more immune to all of that stuff.’

Considering the Oscar-winning glamazon we’ve grown accustomed to, we’d say she’s more than immune. ‘Adult’ casts Theron as a boozy, vicious writer of teen fiction who returns to her hometown to steal back her high school boyfriend.

At least she’s got some character background.

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