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I was a pretty delicate kid. Anything that was going around I'd get it and I'd generally get it much worse than other people, so I spent a lot of time out of school.

We moved in 8th grade, so 7th grade I was doing okay, and then 8th grade, everything fell apart. I had no fashion sense to speak of. We only had a couple of hair care products back then. We didn't have all these things to tame your hair. I had glasses; I had braces. I had it all.

I got rid of my glasses and they changed my hair. That's really all they did. They went shopping for me, so the clothes are different too. It wasn't like Extreme Makeover where I got a nose job or anything.

I discovered that my insecurities and my flaws were things that I actually need to embrace, and I let them become my superpowers.

I hated myself for so many reasons, and I thought so many things were my fault that happened to me growing up.

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

I went through a really low period about 13 years ago, when all aspects of my career and everything went completely wrong.

When I look back at my past mistakes, I realise that there were times when I wasn't myself, and that's why certain styles did not work well for me.

There's so many parts of my life that I've struggled with - that so many millions of others struggled with - about being an outsider, about feeling ugly, about having to overcome looking different to other people.

I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.