Sherri Shepherd is known for her commentary on “The View” and her recent dealings with weight loss, motherhood, divorce and dating again. Sometimes we forget that she entered showbiz as a comic. For Shepherd, comedy was a way to escape the bullying she experienced in school as a Black girl in the Chicago suburb of Hoffman Estates.
“My dad worked two jobs and moved us to the suburbs, and just being a Black person, I went through a lot of racism and being called names and being bullied every single day,” Shepherd told People. “And it was hard. I didn’t have any friends.”