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"Lea Michele and Rachel Berry aren&amp;apos;t that different after all.\r\nLike the character she plays on Glee, the 25-year-old actress was bullied in her younger years. So much so, in fact, that she changed her last name to get kids to stop picking on her!&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;Sarfati. That&amp;apos;s my real last name,&amp;quot; Michele said on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno Wednesday. &amp;quot;I don&amp;apos;t use it a lot because I got Lea So-fatty, Lea So-farty at school.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nSo when did the star drop her real last name in favor of Michele? &amp;quot;When I was little and I went on my first audition, they were like, &amp;apos;And may we have your name?&amp;apos; And I was like, &amp;apos;Lea Michele.&amp;apos; And I&amp;apos;ve been Lea Michele ever since.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nThe actress isn&amp;apos;t the only celeb who was picked on; stars like Demi Lovato, Jessica Simpson and Eva Longoria have also opened up on their struggles with bullying."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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