High School Musical star KayCee Stroh reveals she received hate mail from Disney Channel viewers

December 13, 2024

Kaycee Stroh received hate mail from Disney Channel viewers.

KayCee Stroh received hate mail from Disney Channel viewers

The 40-year-old actress rose to fame when she took on the role of Martha Cox in the 2006 runaway hit ‘High School Musical’ for network television and starred opposite Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens but was left “devastated” by fans of the film. The film criticized her appearance.

She told People: “My whole life I’ve been a bigger, muscular, curvier woman. The only thing I thought would hold me back was the thing that made me who I was, and that made me stand up that day.

“It all made sense to me. It’s like my whole life came into focus – I was supposed to be this way, I was made this way for a reason, and I needed to change the perspective of the world in this.

“(Someone wrote to Disney, criticizing them for casting) someone as healthy as myself. If only they had taken the time to get to know me and realize that I grew up dancing five hours a day, and that’s not at all. situation.

“It’s really bad to see how people only judge others based on something as shallow as their outward appearance when they’re here on this earth.”

But the star – who appeared in three ‘High School Musical’ films and also had a small role in ‘The Suite Life of Zack and Cody’ at the same time – is glad he had such an experience when he did the cause. it teaches him to “build empathy” for other people.

He said: “I’m glad it happened when I was young and fresh in the industry because I really learned quickly to build empathy for others.”

“Healing people don’t hurt people, and I hope those people can find happiness and heal their inner trauma, or the generational body trauma that was passed down to them.

“I really just looked at it like, ‘I’m sorry for you.’ I hope you find happiness and realize one day that there is more to life than that.”