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Pictures: Peter Kelly<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">DEELIA Meriel, who even thought of ending her life after years of intense bullying at school, has amazingly not only turned her life around but is now running a successful business and appears in movies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Still only 20, Ms Meriel worked very hard from 16 to 18 years to build up enough capital to purchase her business, Meei Salon in Norwest Business Park, Baulkham Hills, taking up the owner\u2019s offer two years ago to put off buying her own home to invest in the saloon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The Beaumont Hills youth\u2019s courage in tackling her demons head on and avoiding the worst options in her young life is now a powerful message for others in her shoes, with Deelia encouraging fellow bullying victims never give up.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/How-bullying-victim-Deelia-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16132\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/How-bullying-victim-Deelia-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Deelia Meriel with a client at her salon.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u201cI feel so humble and blessed now as I feel that all my hard work when I was younger has paid off,\u201d said Ms Meriel, who is younger than her five staff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u201cI like to tell other kids in my position (who are being bullied or have been bullied) that bullying does not have to end badly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u201cParents can be unaware of bullying. I can breathe now and things are going 100 per cent better than I expected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u201cI was up and running the business on the first day I took over and have been pretty busy since then.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u201cI would definitely would want to expand towards the city and Parramatta.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Ms Meriel has a swag of achievements under her belt, including acting in the horror\/thriller Red Christmas last year, modelling, being a student at NIDA, being a hip hop dancer and completing her diploma at the Australian Academy of Beauty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">For someone who thought the world was against her during a torturous two-year period, Merial now has more than 17,500 followers on Instagram.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/How-bullying-victim-Deelia-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16133\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/How-bullying-victim-Deelia-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Deelia Meriel, right with some of her staff, Amanda Little and Michela Louis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">She also has a personal trainer five days a week and helps out at her local Our Lady of the Angels Church as a youth leader.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">She credits her own determination and her faith in herself to survive and said being bullied does not mean the end of your world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u201cWhen I was younger I went to many schools and had a very hard time with bullying,\u201d Ms Meriel said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u201cI was bullied a lot during my childhood and I didn\u2019t want to live anymore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u201cI felt the whole world was against me when I was 14-16 years and also ran away once to Queensland because I was so upset.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u201cI was very depressed and went to hospital. But then I turned my life around to prove to everyone I can do it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u201cI put my head down and proved everyone wrong, working my butt off, doing 12 hour shifts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u201cI didn\u2019t have a social life and had no friends.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Ms Meriel had been working with Meei Salon for a couple of years by now and said she had saved enough to put down a deposit for a house.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/How-bullying-victim-Deelia-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16134\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/How-bullying-victim-Deelia-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">It\u2019s all smiles for Deelia Meriel who said she likes to make people feel amazing.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">That\u2019s when the owners of the salon suggested to her to put the house on hold and invest in the business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u201cI was very determined and since I had worked for them, I decided to go for it, with my parents putting up the balance money to purchase the business,\u201d Ms Meriel said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u201cI also take pride in my health and this is what we encourage in our business, the benefits of eating healthy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u201cI love to make people feel amazing and I have fantastic staff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u201cI am paying back my parents (for their financial help) and I am looking to buy my first home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u201cMy other goals include having my own family one day and expanding my acting roles and being in a TV series.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How bullying victim Deelia came back from the brink to open her own business and inspire others by Lawrence Machado, Rouse Hill Times Deelia Meriel, 20 at her salon in the Norwest. 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