Sophie Ellis-Bextor says her youngsters have been ‘bullied’ at college for similar purpose
Sophie Ellis-Bextor has revealed the heartbreaking purpose why her youngsters are bullied at college.
The British singer, 46, recognized for her hit single ‘Homicide on the Dancefloor’, has opened up concerning the ‘actually harsh’ actuality of secondary faculties within the UK.
She shares 5 boys along with her husband Richard Jones: Sonny, 19; Equipment, 14; Ray, 11; Jesse, seven; and Mickey, 4.
Ellis-Bextor and Jones, 46, met when he was auditioning to affix her band in 2002. They obtained married in 2005 and dwell in London with their sons.
On ‘all the time desirous to be a mum,’ she told the Massive Situation final yr: “I actually appreciated the concept of being a younger mum.
“I did not know I used to be going to get pregnant once I did, although. I hadn’t been relationship Richard very lengthy once I discovered I used to be pregnant.
“It wasn’t the simplest factor to be a brand new mum at 25 making pop music.”
The mum-of-five has candidly spoke about her youngsters, together with how her youngest youngsters have been bullied at college for a selected purpose – their hair color.
In line with Ellis-Bextor, her youngsters have ‘obtained some completely different shades of crimson’, which may cease them ‘mixing in’.
She instructed Andreas Wild on her Salon Confidential podcast: “It is [bullying] positively been one thing they’ve skilled, which is basically harsh.
“You get to secondary faculty and something that marks you out turns into the factor you can be teased about.
“It is extraordinary how you might have this need at that age group simply to mix in, to be a part of the pack. It is a actually robust intuition.”
Ellis-Bextor recommended that communication is one of the best ways of coping with all of it.
“However quite than letting it make you’re feeling down, hopefully by having conversations, you’ll be able to truly control it and hold it on the best facet of issues,” she added.
“And then you definitely get a bit older and you are like, ‘Truly, all these issues about me that set me aside are the issues I will now give house to and put money into and luxuriate in myself.’
“My youngsters have gotten some completely different shades of crimson, but it surely’s so attractive – and I can all the time discover them so simply in a playground.”
The singer additionally credited her personal mother and father, who’re TV presenter Janet Ellis and movie producer Robin Bextor, for letting her go on tour whereas she was nonetheless in secondary faculty.
“My mother and father had been actually cool. I do actually recognize that they put me into a non-public secondary faculty, and that was an enormous stretch, and I knew it was an enormous factor that they had been doing for me,” she mentioned to Massive Situation.
“So once I turned to them on the finish and I used to be like, ‘I’m not going to college, I’m occurring tour’ – credit score to them, they had been like, ‘OK.'”
In the event you’ve been affected by bullying and need to converse to somebody in confidence, contact Bullying UK (a part of Household Lives) on 0808 800 2222. The helpline service is open 9am–9pm Monday to Friday and 10am–3pm Saturday and Sunday.
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