Love Island All-Stars' Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu has spoken out about the heartbreaking bullying she suffered as a teen - and revealed the novel way she recently got her revenge on one of her tormentors. The 30-year-old actress and reality star is currently in a relationship with Curtis Pritchard, 29, after they fell for each other on the recent All Stars version of the ITV dating show which finished last month. But while Ekin-Su is now back on top career-wise, it’s been a hard time for her in the past two years - as the cruelty she faced from trolls brought back memories of the abuse she suffered as a teen.
Fortunately however, she's now stronger than ever - and now, after a chance run-in on the street, she's finally got her own back on those who belittled her at school. It's been a long time coming. Ekin-Su had just started secondary school in London when she started getting picked on for her name and size.
The more she was picked on the more she ate and the worse the bullying became - including one time when she was pushed down the stairs. “Basically, I felt like an alien. I had these I had quite hairy legs at the time,” she said.
“You're a child, but then you had all the other girls with Prada bags and Prada shoes and fake tan and mascara on. I was never fitting in [with] that. I was kind of the dork, the teacher’s pet.
I used to eat my school lunch in the toilets a lot. “The extreme bullying happened from Year Seven to Year Nine. I was quite big when I was in .