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Khloe Kardashian lashes out at Phoebe Prince bullies

ANTIONETTE KELLY,

IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

Published Monday, April 12, 2010, 12:58 PM

Updated Tuesday, April 13, 2010, 10:41 AM

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Khloe Kardhasian

Khloe Kardashian, Kim's sister and a business owner, has expressed her outrage at the bullies who Irish girl Phoebe Prince to an early grave.

"I just don't understand why people feel the need to be cruel to others -- don't they have something better to do with their time? The fact that anyone can be SO vicious that it pushes another person to take their own life is unfathomable to me," she said.

This is what Kardashian wrote on her own blog about her own experiences of bullying.

"I wasn't bullied in school but I was made fun of because I was fat. Thank God I had older sisters who the minute I told them what had happened would actually show up at my school to scare the kids, but not everyone has that. I have also always had thick skin -- even now the media can often be bullies but I am older now and I can take it," she wrote.

Speaking about the bullying Phoebe experienced via cyberspace Kardashian said, "The difference is that today these kids are given so many different outlets to bully. When I was a child and being teased, we didn't have Twitter, Facebook or MySpace, so bullying only went on during school hours. Now kids go to school and are tortured, and they come home and still have to deal with it online -- there's no escape."

She continued with some advice:

"To the children who are bullying: Honestly, get a life. What does it say about you that you spend your time making someone else's life miserable? I feel sorry for you. To the parents of the bullies: Kindness is the No. 1 lesson to teach your children. To witnesses of bullying: Intervene, no matter what it does to your reputation! To the children being bullied: Hang in there, things will only get better as you get older."

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615rlbuttrey | Apr 19, 2010, 10:06 AM EDT

I truly admire Ms. Kardhasian for making these comments. I, too, was tormented in high school and it has left emotional scarring that even after years of therapy still exists. There are not words for the feelings that I have for those who were so vile as to bully Phoebe. May they one day experience the same torment that she went through. This is the only punishment adequate to equal their deeds.

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pacmanisback | Apr 19, 2010, 12:30 AM EDT

sorry- but who cares what Kardashian has to say about this. How is this news worthy?

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PeachPie | Apr 18, 2010, 10:02 AM EDT

I'm not a fan of the Kardashians. Kloe just went up 100 notches in my book.

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bonitapowers | Apr 16, 2010, 09:02 AM EDT

This is all too familiar. My daughter was bullied back in 2000-2001 and was inundated with all kind of profanities including "If I looked like you I would kill myself." Ten years later, she is still troubled- but the interesting thing is......so are the bullies. The email was published by our newspaper and the perverbial "cat was let out of the bag". I think maturity is the biggest issue. Once the bullies mature, they realize the horrible things they have done and beg for forgiveness. Perhaps its the courses on humanity that they take in college. Somehow they learn that their actions create reactions (sometimes death) and they are mortified by what they have done. My daughter has been asked for forgiveness by three of the bullies. She graciously has refused. The problem is finding a way to get from pre-teen to college without deaths. For us the number one thing we noticed was our daughter's change in behavior. If your child becomes "quiet" - find out what is going on in their life.

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Searlit | Apr 14, 2010, 11:30 AM EDT

Thank-you for speaking out Kloe Kardashian!

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nancestef | Apr 14, 2010, 10:54 AM EDT

As an American, and a native of Massachusetts (near South Hadley), I would like to express my condolences to all who knew and loved Phoebe. If you visit our local newspaper website www.masslive.com, you will see all the uproar in the community surrounding Phoebe's death. Residents are angry, and that anger will be spilling over at tonight's School Committee meeting. Hopefully, this anger will be a catalyst for desperately needed change.

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Odoylerules | Apr 14, 2010, 10:43 AM EDT

Well spoken Khloe; for the record, you're not fat, you're plump in all the right places. Parents need to start teaching their kids to help out other kids who are being bullied and teach them to treat everyone with common courtesy, no matter what they look like, or what kind of reputation they have. When all else fails teach the kids who are being bullied to stand up to their tormentor and confront them eye to eye and settle the issue once and for all. Sometimes that's the only answer.

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tomgallagher | Apr 14, 2010, 09:52 AM EDT

My opinion of Ms. Kardasian just went up by quite a few points.

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April Drew | Apr 13, 2010, 03:27 PM EDT

Hello Erica Laughlin.. My name is April Drew. I'm a reporter with this website and the Irish Voice newspaper. I"ve been covering Phoebe's sad story since the beginning. I'm planning on being in South Hadley next week and would love an opportunity to meet with you as you've been so vocal on this from teh start too. My email is april@irishvoice.com. If you could drop me a line that would be super. Thanks April

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hyattsville | Apr 13, 2010, 03:03 PM EDT

@pat52rk the article says who she is for the most part. She is also a star of reality television, and is married to an LA Laker. It's always good when someone in the public eye uses their position of visibility to speak out about wrongs.

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ericalaughlin | Apr 13, 2010, 07:10 AM EDT

Thank you for this and thank you for keeping this story going. It's so important. If only you could see how some of the officials and some citizens are behaving here in South Hadley. You'd be appalled. Truly appalled.

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mom5683 | Apr 12, 2010, 11:18 PM EDT

Sound advice. Please, continue advocacy.

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pat52rk | Apr 12, 2010, 04:42 PM EDT

who the hell is kloe kardashian ?

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Lilsirferbabe18L | Apr 12, 2010, 03:33 PM EDT

I know what it feels like to be bullied every day of ur life.My cousin was born with spina bifida and her older sister called me peg leg, crip and later freak every day of her life. even today she always has a mean nasty comment about her sister who help her raise her 3 daughter until they were grown, Now she has no more use for her sister who because of her disability has spent the last 15 year in a wheelchair and the woman is 58 yrs old. Some bullies never quit this person may be my family but i don't have anything to do with her because of her hateful ways towards her disable sister. To me this woman has an black soul and so do other who bully and hurt people for no reason. I do know that Karma has a way of evening the scales.

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kfittizzi | Apr 12, 2010, 02:09 PM EDT

I totally agree...it is so sad what happend to this girl and that school should be ashamed. More times than none schools do NOTHING about bullying. If kids complain that it is going on after school or on the internet, the school officials quickly say, "We can't control what goes on outside". But honestly, they can. They need to intervene ANYTIME a child is being bullied. Parents who's children are doing the bullying need to stop saying, "kids will be kids". That is absolute nonsense. They wouldn't be saying that if their kids were the ones being bullied. Enough is enough...it is Harassment and should not be tolerated. Look at this poor girl Phoebe Prince, is this what has to happend???

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