Former Bachelor Colton Underwood is opening up about his struggles with his sexuality and how he overcame bullying in new book First Time.
, the 28-year-old writes he began to wonder if he was interested in men when he was in grade school, leading him to search,"Am I gay?" on the Internet.
"I didn't know who I was," he writes."And I come from an athletic family, so it was always, ‘Move on, you're good.' So that threw me off. In high school, when I was struggling with my sexuality, I'm not going to talk to my parents about it. So I internalized it." This quest to find himself was made more difficult by the intense bullying he endured from a young age. He says he not only struggled with his sexuality, but his weight too, which his peers picked fun at. He shares,"I was called fatso, four eyes and four lips, because I used to lick my lips, so I would constantly have a red ring around them... I was a little heavy, and that, combined with being socially awkward, led to a really hard time. I didn't believe in myself.
He stayed true to his Christian values through college and beyond, maintaining his virginity even as he began dating Olympic gymnast When the pair eventually split, the footballer signed up to be one of the men who vied for
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