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The Bold Type Star Aisha Dee Was Bullied At School Because Of Her Natural Hair

The Bold Type actress Aisha Dee has opened up about being bullied during her younger years because of the way she looked.

The 26-year-old, whose mother is Anglo-Australian and father is African-American, said growing up on the Gold Coast in Queensland was “tricky” because of the racial taunts she faced in the school playground.

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“I never really questioned whether I was a person of colour or not because I was the only one around,” Aisha told HuffPost Australia. “I didn’t really see anyone else who looked like me and it was felt like it was something that was important to other people than it was to me.

“I always just saw myself as Australian but other people would constantly point out the fact that my hair was crazy or my skin was, you know according to the kids at school, it looked like poo, or I had pubes on my head.

“I actually think props to them for being so creative for calling me pube-head.”

The Bold Type actress Aisha Dee.
The Bold Type actress Aisha Dee.

After having moved to the US at age 16 and now 10 years into her successful international acting career, Aisha can look back at her experiences and appreciate they shaped the confident woman she is today.

“It was kind of a tricky way to grow up. It definitely shaped me in a way but not in a way I’m not grateful for,” she explained.

“I think it’s just now it’s just a part of who I am and it kind of motivated me to really search for examples of people that look like me that felt...

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