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Tuesday October 30, 2007

British singing sensation Leona Lewis, whose new single ‘Bleeding Love’ is brilliant – and consequently Number 1 in the UK charts, has revealed that being mixed-race made her a target for bullying classmates at school.

According to Britain’s Now Magazine, The striking ‘X Factor’ winner said: ‘I was the only one at stage school who wasn’t white’, she explains. ‘Some kids would come up to me and say “Oh, you’re mixed-race”, making it a big deal when it wasn’t.

‘I later went to a school where the majority of the kids were black and because I used to wear my hair out, I’d get teased for not wearing it in braids and for being different there too.’

22-year-old Lewis explains that it was the support of her family that got her through the experience.

‘I’d go crying home to Mum and she would say to me, “You’re a beautiful girl and you’re a part of me and a part of your dad”,’ Leona tells the Daily Mail. ‘You don’t have to do anything but carry yourself with pride’.’