AceShowbiz - People now would kill to have a fashion item from designer and film director Tom Ford's high-end brand. While fashion is the thing that brought Tom to fame and successful life, it was also the thing that made him bullied when he was young. "As a kid in the '60s, I wasn't great at football, I was not great at team sports, I wasn't great with my BB gun, which in Texas soon turns into a .410 shotgun and then turns into something else," Tom shared to PEOPLE. "I wasn't interested in those things and so I was teased a lot."

The bullying apparently affected him greatly that he still feels insecure every time he sees a group of kids now. "Still to this day if I walk past a group of kids, they can be 8 years old playing soccer, and that ball comes towards me, I panic because, 'My God, I have to kick that ball and they're all going to laugh because I'm not great at soccer.' It's a sort of instant panic," he said.