The mean girls bullied me at school & put ketchup in my hair – now I’m a CEO on six figures & they’re begging for a job
There’s nothing like getting the last laugh - and a young CEO has revealed how the girls that bullied her at school are now applying for jobs at her company.
Vicky Owens, 23, set up Socially Speaking Media from her bedroom when she was too anxious to leave the house after a mental health breakdown.
But now the business is worth six figures and she’s had to move into swanky offices in order to fit in her four staff - and needs to recruit more.
The social media entrepreneur revealed that the mean girls who taunted her as a teenager have been applying for vacancies on her team, adding: “Let that sink in.”
Taking to her TikTok channel, she spoke about how she created her six-figure business in her early twenties, after being at ‘rock bottom’ as a teen.
“I was very shy at high school. I was very tall, I had very bushy, ‘manly’ eyebrows,” Vicky said.
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“And I wasn’t very good at school either. I didn’t do very well in my exams."
She continued: "I was a really easy target for bullies so I had ketchup poured on my head, I had yoghurt dumped on my head.
“I finished high school and college, just about, and then went to do some work in Manchester.
“Then I started to deal with some really bad anxiety and panic attacks, which basically left me bed bound.
“I didn’t want to leave the house, I didn’t want to work. I didn’t want to go out, I lost all my friends.”
But the savvy young woman came up with a plan to earn a living from bedroom.
“So while I was at home, stuck in bed, I obviously needed money.
"I approached lots of businesses asking if I could run their social media for them.
“I really slowly started to build up my client base and I had to leave the house, which was very scary but I did it.
“I just kept building it and building it, and focusing on the results.
"I got approached to work with the likes of Netflix for Emily in Paris, the official TikTok and other huge brands.
“It literally blew up in a year. I asked my sisters to come and work with me, we now have a full-time team of four and our own office spaces in Manchester.
“I literally pinch myself every day. You are not who you were in high school.
“The girls who used to bully me and pour various foods over my head are literally nowhere in life.”
