I’m pretty sure I was hit on by, like, a 25-year-old male. And I didn’t even really realize it until I saw stretch marks because it happened very fast. I definitely did that.” “A few months after the period, my boobs started growing. So what lot of the girls started doing was push-up bras and then flimsy sports bras on top because it really gives you the cleavage. I want everyone to know that I have boobs.’ I wore the most - I tried to make my tops as revealing as possible, show as much cleavage as I could. But yeah, I was still very self-conscious about my body and stuff because all I can think about is - the whole thing going on in my mind is, ‘What are other people thinking? Are they laughing at me in their heads? Do they think I look weird? Do they think I look fat?’ Or like - it’s never, like, normal thoughts.” “I think when they first start to really get bigger - not that I have big boobs - but when they started to grow, I was like, really like, ‘This is the most amazing thing ever. This is cool.’ Something like fit in a bit more, I guess. So when everyone else was growing and had boobs and stuff - and then I started growing up a bit more. And it was, like, one or two days a month when my writing was just completely - you couldn’t read it because I wasn’t able to hold a pen.” “I mean, I didn’t really physically change for a while. I know that my mom looked through my books one parents’ evening. And then it got to the point where I was getting sent home from school because I couldn’t walk. I need to go to the doctor’s,’ because no one else has ever said that their period pains are in their bum hole. So I was always like, ‘Mom, this is not normal. And as a woman and as a girl, no one had ever - I never heard of it. And then my period pains turned from being stomach cramps to being pains in my back to actually my bum hole. ‘Miss, I can’t go to school because I’m on my period.’ I physically couldn’t move. So teachers just thought I was being lazy in class and was overreacting, because that’s what most girls do. So unless you’ve been sick or there’s something really wrong with you, they’re not going to send you home.
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It was like watching a horror movie or something.” “My school was quite strict. The most I’d seen was on TV, which is obviously all fake. And seeing that, I was, like, really scared because I also never had a nosebleed or anything. And there was like - obviously, it’s a bit of a mess down there. I think I was just really scared because obviously you know blood’s going to come out. And I feel like it kind of started when I was 11. So it was like, suddenly I’m being forced to become mature. But at the same time, I wanted to get older. I remember saying, ‘Why does this only happen to girls? Why does it not happen to boys? It’s not fair.’” “It was a very difficult time because I wanted to be a child and I wanted to still have fun. When I was 8 or 9, I just wanted to be a boy. But I started my periods and going through puberty when I was 8 or 9. Transcript Just Girls From period pains and hip dips to bullying and catcalling, five girls talk about the trials of growing up.