Fixer Upper Alum Joanna Gaines Reveals Her Struggles With Insecurity; Explains She Used To Get Bullied Being Asian In School
- Reality television star Joanna Gaines recently opened about her young days when she was insecure and used to get bullied for her half-Asian heritage.
- In a recent interview with Darling Magazine, the 39-year-old HGTV alum confessed her struggle with insecurities until her last semester of college.
- Joanna and husband Chip Gaines are expecting their fifth child together which they announced in early January.
- The reality stars married in 2003 after staying in a relationship for a short time.
Fixer Upper star Joanna Gaines has recently opened up about her young days when she was insecure and bullied for her half-Asian heritage being a college student.
In a recent interview with Darling magazine, Joanna went on sharing her past life experience where she said,
I don’t think confidence has ever really been one of those things that came naturally for me
She continued,
If people thought I was confident, it was really just the way I masked my insecurity, because I didn’t want people to really get to know the real me.
The star further said she faced difficulties in fitting in at school when she was younger as her schoolmates and other children used to make fun of her exotic look. She said,
If you haven’t heard my story, my mom is full Korean and my dad is Caucasian. Kids in kindergarten would make fun of me for being Asian and when you’re that age you don’t know really how to process that; the way you take that is, ‘Who I am isn’t good enough.’
She got things easier when she moved to Texas with her parents, where the kids weren't making fun of her so often. She said it was difficult for her to make friends in such a grand big school, however, she found a place to fit in when she again migrated to Waco, Texas, her current hometown. Unfortunately, she was forced to leave her hometown during her last semester of college which she spent in NYC.
She described it as struggling with her identity as a youth led her to the path which she walks now. She said,
I discovered that my purpose was to help people who are insecure because I didn’t like the way it made me feel, in that stall; that’s not who I am
She added,
So while I was in New York I really felt like God was telling me that I would be able to help women who weren’t confident, who were looking for guidance or who were lonely.
Joanna Gaines and husband Chip Gaines are expecting their fifth child together. The couple has been in a married relation for over a decade. The power couple has already declared that the fifth season of their hit HGTV show Fixer Upper will be its last season.