Eleanor Neale
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So she was struggling with a few different physical issues but overall she was a happy child nevertheless.
But when she was about 11 years old, Anna was due to finish primary school and head on to secondary school, which is big school.
It's where all the big kids are.
And her teachers were a little bit concerned about how she was going to go in big school.
In fact, they were so concerned that one of them made a call to Anna's mother to say that they were worried that Anna might actually be a target for bullies in secondary school.
She was already picked on a little bit in primary school, although I wouldn't say it was like bullying.
To be fair, I don't know, I wasn't there.
But like the sources say that it was just more like teasing in primary school because Anna was always tall for her age and tall for a girl in general.
When she was 14 years old, she was five foot eight.
And to put that into perspective, I'm 22 and I'm five foot four.
My sister's 30 and she's like five foot.
So, I mean, she was a very tall girl, was Anna.
I say she was five foot eight by the time she was 14.
I don't actually know how tall she was at 11 when she was getting picked on for her height.
Probably taller than the other girls anyway.
Anna really didn't like her height because it made her different.
It made her stand out from everyone else and she really didn't like standing out.
She didn't have a lot of self-confidence, probably from the teasing and being picked on and stuff.
She had a very hard time socialising, she was quite socially awkward and so she didn't make friends very well.
She... I don't know, she really struggled in school, to be honest.