36-year-old actor Romeo Tan and Romeo Tan as a student at a weight of 92kg. opened up about his weight issues when he was younger and being bullied about it in school in the latest episode of talk show Hear U Out.
The 36-year-old actor said that when he was in primary school, he had already reached a height of more than 172cm. When he reached secondary school, his weight was 92kg at his heaviest."Imagine being called Romeo and looking like that. How could I be happy?" said Tan, in an apparent reference to the character inHe recalled a teacher once saying in front of the entire class, "I've never seen such a fat Romeo," and his classmates laughing.
Tan also recalled being bullied by other students. He said his classmates would shoot rubber bands at him, and squeeze correction fluid on his chair so that it would leave white stains on his pants when he sat down. Quan asked him whether he retaliated against his bullies, but Tan said that while he felt hurt, he took everything in his stride. To cheer himself up, he would eat fast food or ice cream, or play video games.Later on, when Tan was a Secondary 4 student, he realised that he was too overweight and had to lose weight.