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Anya Taylor-Joy stopped looking in mirrors after seeing Facebook picture that made fun of her looks

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Updated 15:28 13 Apr 2023 GMT+1Published 15:17 13 Apr 2023 GMT+1

Anya Taylor-Joy stopped looking in mirrors after seeing Facebook picture that made fun of her looks

The Peaky Blinders star said she was bullied for her looks.

Anish Vij

Anish Vij

Anya Taylor-Joy stopped looking in mirrors after seeing a Facebook picture that made fun of the way she looks.

The actor - who learnt English by watching Jack Black's School Of Rock - moved all around the place when she was younger.

Although she was born in Florida, she was actually raised in Argentina before moving to the UK.

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But sadly, Anya Taylor was bullied in school for the way she looked.

"I was very, very lucky with my parents because when I was bullied for my looks my mum always said you look at the inside of somebody," she told The Drew Barrymore Show last year.

Anya Taylor-Joy stopped looking in mirrors after seeing a Facebook picture that made fun of the way she looks.
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"You look at the inside of somebody you don't look at class, you don't look at anything like that.

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"You don't look at what they do for a job, it's just do you like that person's heart?

"And I really have to give a big shout out to my mum for that because it was really helpful."

Sadly, Anya Taylor was bullied in school for the way she looked.
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Speaking to The Sun in 2020, she revealed how difficult it was for her growing up in Argentina and how other kids would lock her inside lockers.

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"Argentina is all green and I had horses and animals everywhere. All of a sudden I was in a big city and didn't speak the language. I didn't really feel like I fitted in anywhere," she said.

"I was too English to be Argentine, too Argentine to be English, too American to be anything.

"The kids just didn't understand me in any shape or form. I used to get locked in lockers. I spent a lot of time in school crying in bathrooms.

"I was so lonely as a kid. I felt so isolated that I created this story in my head about lonely was bad, being alone was bad.

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"That can be quite an impactful feeling, especially if you've taught yourself to fear it."

There's nothing wrong with her eyes.
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Despite her huge success with her roles in the likes of The Queen's Gambit and Peaky Blinders, the star still remembers when people on Facebook made fun of how 'far apart' her eyes (apparently) are.

"I can definitely remember when Facebook was a thing and I was never aware that my eyes were far apart and then someone tagged me in a picture with a fish and they were like, 'This is you 'cause your eyes are like here," she told W Magazine in 2016.

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"And I was really upset about it and I didn’t enjoy it and I kind of stopped looking in mirrors for a very long time.

"I still don’t really spend a lot of time in front of mirrors because I don’t really have to deal with my face.

"Unfortunately, y’all do."

Featured Image Credit: The Movie Times/Associated Press / Alamy Stock Photo

Topics: Anya Taylor-Joy, Celebrity, Mental Health

Anish Vij
Anish Vij

Anish has an MA in Multimedia Journalism and is passionate about delivering sarcastic/mildly amusing content. After studying business at undergrad, Anish realised that he’d much prefer getting paid to rant about a topic, rather than to find a solution to it. Apart from that, he loves the ‘Four F’s’, as he calls it - family, friends, football and food. Email: [email protected]

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