This ex-bully now has a booming business.
A reformed mean girl says she has started her own “spiritual development and transformation” company to teach women how to be nicer to each other.
Cally Stewart, 35, says she spent close to two decades terrorizing other women, making cruel comments about their weight and even gossiping behind her best friends’ backs.
“I used to be an absolute bitch,” the mom of two told South West News Service. “I was horrible about others to give me a boost of power.”
She recalled how, for instance, “I laughed about what other girls or colleagues were wearing and [would] say awful things like, ‘She’s too fat for that.’”
Stewart says she first started bullying as a young girl after being picked on at school for her own appearance.
“I realized my bullies had nothing if I wasn’t scared,” she explained. “It was a liberating feeling. I became a bully [in my own right] and I was awful in classes. I made teachers’ classes hell.”
The youngster soon developed a reputation as a “mean girl” and at one point was even suspended from school for her bullying behavior — but she didn’t stop.
“I remember one called me out once and she told me, ‘Life’s going to be difficult for you if you carry on like this,’” Stewart said.
After dropping out of high school, the teen terror began working in coffee shops and offices and quickly turned on her colleagues.
“I’d say that women were sleeping with the men in the office to get there and awful things about how they were dressing,” she confessed.
Not even her friends were off-limits from her nastiness, with Stewart starting rumors about her gal pals and bitching about them in text threads.
Despite being cruel to other women, Stewart got married and had two children of her own.
“My husband thought I was a complete psycho,” she admitted. But, she continued, motherhood eventually forced her to reckon with her problematic behavior.
“I reached 30 and I realized that I’d achieved all these things but I still felt worthless,” the blonde declared. “I knew I had to make a change.”
With the support of her husband, Stewart checked herself into a spiritual retreat to address her bad habits.
The program helped the mom become a kinder person and guided her on how to forge female friendships based on mutual respect and goodwill.
Now brimming with kindness, the former bully started her own company called “Curiously Her” — which helps other women work through their entrenched beliefs and make spiritual transformations.
“I think that most people who are hurting go on to hurt others because it’s a way of coping. We need to get help to the people who are hurting,” Stewart said of her business’ mission.
“Today I look back on my past actions and I think they are awful,” the mom further declared. “I now have lots more female friends and acquaintances than I [had] before. Someone on my Facebook said, ‘You made me life hell so I can testify that was who [you] were but can now see how different you are.’”