Cruel taunts: Madonna, pictured here as a young girl in the 1960s, was called 'hairy monster' by boys in the school yard
Madonna who grew up in Detroit, Michigan, also revealed that she struggled to have relationships as a teenager because she frightened off straight men.
'Straight men did not find me attractive,' she told US magazine Harper's Bazaar.
'I think they were scared of me because I was different.'
'Different': Madonna struggled to have relationships as a teenager because she frightened off straight men
She's one of the world's biggest music stars, but Madonna wasn't always so popular.
The singer, 53, has revealed she was picked on by boys at school during her early years.
But she said she refused to listen to the taunts - and stopped shaving her armpits out of spite.
'The boys in my school would make fun of me,' she revealed in an interview with U.S. Harper's Bazaar.
'[They would call me] 'hairy monster.'
'You know, things like that.
'And then, going to high school, I saw how popular girls had to behave to get the boys.
'I knew I couldn't fit into that.
'So I decided I would do the opposite. I refused to wear makeup, [or] to have a hairstyle.
'I refused to shave. I had hairy armpits.'
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