Chastain said she had to face bullied every day at her school, which made feel lonely, reported Glamour magazine.
"(As a child) I was told every day at school that I was ugly," Chastain told the magazine.
"And that no one wanted to be my friend. The most cruel things. If I can do anything to help young girls and to be a cheerleader for people who sometimes have low self-esteem, I want to do that," the 37-year-old added.
"I would have been a disaster... If I was 19 and I had the attention that I'm getting now. I would have just said stupid things. I would have partied more. All these expensive dinners and people giving me champagne? All these stupid things that we criticize 19-year-olds for doing when they're famous, I would have done," she said.
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