The brunette actor wasn’t always popular or seen as stylish, though.
Instead, it made the bullying worse.
They slammed my head into a locker.

I fell to the ground and they started to kick the s**t out of me.
I had to have stitches."
Aside from the bulling, though, Ryder’s childhood was fairly positive.

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She was raised on a commune in California, where her parents were friends with poet Allen Ginsberg.
Ryder’s godfather was another creative: writer Timothy Leary.

“They’re my best friends.”
They even refused to allow her to film during school hours.
“I remember thinking, ‘Ooh, [“Beetlejuice”] is like the No.

This is going to make things great at school,'” she told Marie Claire.
“But it made things worse.
They called me a witch.”

“I’ve noticed that even little, little kids like her,” Garofalo said.
And athletes, too.
She’s so gorgeous that she crosses over."

They met in 1989 during the film premiere of “Great Balls of Fire.”
Just months later, Depp proposed.
As their romance continued, Depp got “Winona Forever” tattooed on his arm.

Still, despite the pair’s seemingly blissful engagement, Ryder and Depp broke up in 1993.
The pair would later break up sometime around 1997.
Then, of course, there was Ryder’s relationship with fellow actor Matt Damon.

As stated byYahoo!, the pair were allegedly introduced to one another in December 1997 by Gwyneth Paltrow.
Despite the stars ' high-profile status, the couple managed to keep their relationship private.
However, after two years, the pair called it quits in 2000.

Despite fizzling out, there would appear to be no hard feelings between the former flames.
During a 2004interviewwith Playboy, Damon had nothing but nice things to say about Ryder.
I’m really lucky that I’m on good terms with him."

“We actually got married in Dracula.
“We did a whole take of a marriage ceremony with real priests,” Reeves said.
“Winona says we are [married].
“Even that word, ‘anxious,'“she told the publication.
“It’s a bad word.
My whole point was, this happens to every girl, almost.”
“And I’ve realized recently it’s literally impossible to take a stab at change that story.”
She toldMarie Claireshe also consulted her own mother to prepare for “Stranger Things.”
In the series, Ryder plays a single mother of two whose youngest son goes missing.
“Millie [Bobby Brown, who plays the enigmatic Eleven] teases me,” she said.
“I’m like the old grandma.”
Give me a piece of that!’
I’m like the confused older person [on the set],” she said.
Still, regardless of how these two lovebirds came together, their relationship has been going strong since 2011.
“I’d rather never have been married than been divorced a few times,” she stated.
But, of course, this choice appears to work for the happy couple.
After showing off a video of her goddaughter, the actress opened up about her view on having children.
The star then admitted that she gets plenty of love from her brother’s kids.