Yahoo Lifestyle Tina Fey Admits to Being a Mean Girl in High School
Look out Regina George! Tina Fey penned the hit film Mean Girls and now we know why it was so good: The funny lady was actually a mean girl herself.
“I admit it openly,” she told Net-a-Porter.com’s The Edit.
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“That was a disease that had to be conquered… It’s a bad coping mechanism — but when you feel less than (in high school, everyone feels less than everyone else for different reasons) in your mind it’s a way of leveling the playing field. Though, of course, it’s not.”
Now the mum of two does her best to steer clear of mean girl types. "Saying something terrible about someone else does not actually level the playing field,” she said. “If I meet a girl of 14 or 15 today who is that kind of girl, I am secretly, in my body, afraid. Even though I’m 45."
Tina Fey. Photo: Getty Images.
The Saturday Night Live alum also explained how she turned to comedy at a young age as a way of dealing with her awkward years. "For me, it was about hitting age 13 and realising, ‘OK, I’m not going to glide by on looks. I’m a normal-looking person, but that’s not going to be where my bread is buttered,’” she explained. “The desire to be funny … is a coping mechanism, another way of ingratiating yourself."
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Hallie Stephens writes for Yahoo Celebrity.
