Taylor Swift, Sophomore Year, Hendersonville High School, Hendersonville, TN (2006)

Life wasn’t a fairy tale for Taylor in Tennessee, as she admits to being bullied and scorned by her fellow students. Eventually her parents took her out of Hendersonville High and allowed their daughter to finish her last two years of high school as a homeschooled student.

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