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Article: Tae-Bo Guru Billy Blanks Says He Used To Get Teased As A Kid.(Brief Article)
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- Jet
- Article date:
- December 13, 1999
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It's hard to imagine that buffed Tae-Bo master Billy Blanks used to get teased as a kid, but he did.
Blanks recently told the Washington Post that he was so painfully shy as a youngster that his teachers thought he was "dumb." As a result, he says that he was placed in special education classes.
"I used to get teased all the time," the first All-American Heavyweight Karate Champion revealed to the Washington Post.
It wasn't until he was 37 that ...