Emily-Anne: Anti-Bullying Teen Activists

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“Sometimes I pretend to be normal, but it gets boring so I go back to being me,” says Emily-Anne Rigal. Emily-Anne became an anti-bullying teen activist at the age of 16. She also made a foundation called We Stop Hate that helps with confidence boosting and bullying which is a problem all throughout the U.S.

Emily-Anne was bullied, became a bully and then finished the cycle by becoming an anti-bullying activist. When she was nine years old many people called her fat and ugly. She was overweight and she was bullied so badly throughout elementary school, because

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