Penny Lancaster has opened up about her devastating experience with bullying when she was a child, revealing that one brutal attack left her bleeding in the street.
The 48-year-old appeared on Lorraine today as she took part in a campaign to stamp out bullying in schools.
She ended up bursting into tears after she was shown a couple of photographs of herself from when she was in school and said that the issues started when she began senior school.
Penny revealed that she had been picked on for a number of reasons, including the fact that she was "too tall and too posh".
"People picked on me for being too smart, too tall," she explained. "I spoke nicely and I didn't want to swear, so I was picked on for that.
"I had rubbers and pencils and things thrown at me from the back of the classroom on my first day of school."
However there was one incident that still sticks in her mind after all these years.
She said: "I remember walking home one day from school one day and there were a couple of girls in an older year who had a bike and was ramming his bike into my legs until they bled.
"That kind of bullying - teasing, slapping me on the head. If it wasn't one thing it was another."
The model previously spoke about her son Alistair being bullied at school for having Rod Stewart as a dad.
She added: "It was pretty hideous at school having things thrown at me by groups of children and being slapped on the forehead because it was too big.
"Telling me my legs too skinny so I wore five pair of tights to make them look thicker they said my hair was too neat so I cut it all off."
*Lorraine airs weekdays at 8.30am on ITV
