The 36-year-old actress was never popular when she was younger but she was determined to befriend one of the most well-liked people in her class. She said: "I wasn`t in the popular crowd. There was a really popular girl at school and I was obsessed with her. "I mean you would go to jail for that stuff today, I was in tears one day because I couldn`t sit next to her." The blonde beauty also admitted she never had boyfriends when she was at school, though she had a lot of "crushes" that were not reciprocated. She told People magazine: "I wore really nerdy glasses because I was blind as could be and the boys didn`t like me. I didn`t have any boyfriends, but lots of crushes." Charlize says that while she was a "mess" in primary school because of the bullying she received, she was immune to the taunts of her classmates as she got older. She added: "I actually got a lot of the mean girl stuff from the ages of 7 to 12. I was pretty much a mess in primary school. "But I got that out of my system by the time I got to high school and was more immune to all of that stuff."