Jodie was bullied at school, pupils spat in her pencil case, mimicked her because she broke her nose in a hockey match when she was eight, kicked footballs at her as well as being verbally teased by being called ‘ugly’, ‘big nose’ and ‘dodgy nose’.
In a recent interview the model admitted she contemplated suicide a number of times.
She also revealed that her successful glamour career started at the age of 15, in her head, when she was so determined to change her life around she wrote in her diary,
'I'm going to be famous; I'm going to be a model because I am going to prove to these people that I'm not as ugly as they say I am.'
In a Channel 5 documentary shown tonight Jodie relives her troubled teenage years, she also meets a family who lost their son after he took his own life after being bullied online.
Jodie also admits she is still bullied today, more recently she says she was bullied on Celebrity Bi Brother by fellow housemate Pete Burns, who actually made a degrading comment towards the model this week on Channel 5’s ‘Big Brother’s Bit on the Side’.
The model hopes tonight’s programme supports schoolchildren who are being bullied today and offers advice on how to overcome the ordeal.
A 2011 survey revealed more than eight out of ten schoolchildren with disabilities have been a victim of bullying.
Jodie Marsh – Bullied: My Secret Past is on Channel 5 tonight (25 January) at 10pm.
