The Unexpected Reason Zendaya Had To Repeat Kindergarten

According to her mom Claire Stoermer, Zendaya repeated a year of kindergarten to improve her social skills. Stoermer explained in an interview with Vogue, "She would sit in the circle with the other kids and be totally silent."

In an interview with GQ, Zendaya also addressed how her shyness has affected her career, telling the magazine, "In this industry, I had to learn how to do small talk and stuff, because I guess I would kind of come off cold to people because I didn't really know how to start conversation. I remember my stylist was like, 'You come off kind of cold. People think you're mean because you don't talk,' when really I just was too nervous." (Similarly, former Disney Channel costar Bella Thorne once explained in an interview with Us Weekly that she and Zendaya weren't close friends when they began working on "Shake It Up!" because the two were made to compete with each other.)

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