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"  So, we really like Bonnie, on The Vampire Diaries. She&amp;#039;s smart, tough, fearless, an awesome friend, and no big deal or anything, but she can bring people back from the dead. But you know who we like even more? Kat Graham. She&amp;#039;s just as smart, fearless and awesome, and also completely real. Sure, she doesn&amp;#039;t do magic in real life, but she does have a killer sense of style, and some really awesome advice for anyone who&amp;#039;s feeling less-than-confident. Plus, she gave us some juicy gossip about this season of TVD, and that&amp;#039;s pretty priceless. Read on to see what she had to say, when she came by the Seventeen offices to say hi. Seventeen: What&amp;#039;s going to be the coolest thing about this season of The Vampire Diaries? Kat Graham I love that this season is about the originals, and they&amp;#039;re focusing on Klaus. He has become such a threat in Mystic Falls, and to Elena, and even to Bonnie because as of right now, Klaus still thinks that Bonnie is dead. I love that they&amp;#039;re dealing with the issue of having to save Stefan Salvatore \u2014 say that five times fast! \u2014 and I love how dangerous everything is this season. It&amp;#039;s life or death. 17: We were so surprised when Bonnie and Jeremy first got together, and now, we&amp;#039;re so rooting for them. Were you guys surprised too? KG: It came out of nowhere, totally. Even Stephen McQueen and I were like &amp;quot;What??&amp;quot; because we never had any scenes together before. But I love the pairing because even though they made Bonnie such a badass witch, they still kind of kept her innocence and made her sweet and vulnerable and I think that that came out a lot with Jeremy. And especially after the season finale, seeing that she had to put everything on the line to bring him back to life, I know she&amp;#039;s going to fight for the relationship but she wants to make sure that he&amp;#039;s going to too. I don&amp;#039;t know how excited any girl would be if her boyfriend picked dead ex-lovers instead of her. So well see what decision he makes. 17: So the dead girls are here to stay? KG: You definitely see more of Malese Jow and Kayla Ewell, which is exciting for me because they&amp;#039;re my girls and we love girl time. But it&amp;#039;s not so exciting for Bonnie. But you get to see them appearing and Jeremy has to deal with it and then decide whether or not he&amp;#039;s even going tell Bonnie, so its pretty cool. 17: Bonnie&amp;#039;s so tough and strong, and confident in herself. Do you identify with her? KG: I totally identify with her. I get these amazing e-mails from all these girls from around the world who identify with her too. It&amp;#039;s important that they see in pop culture that you don&amp;#039;t have to follow everything that your friends are doing \u2014 you don&amp;#039;t have to give in to peer pressure if you think something isn&amp;#039;t right. Whether it&amp;#039;s life or death, or just something you don&amp;#039;t want to do, you don&amp;#039;t have to do it. Bonnie has gone against her friends and her family and anyone else you can think of, when she&amp;#039;s felt like it was the right thing to do. 17: What advice do you have for girls who are still trying to find that inner strength, in real life? KG: For someone like me, who&amp;#039;s a little different with my fashion sometimes, I get targeted and bullied just like they might in school. Still to this day I&amp;#039;ll still go on Tumblr and I&amp;#039;ll look at the fan art and stuff like that and I&amp;#039;ll randomly see something that I&amp;#039;m like, &amp;quot;oh that&amp;#039;s kind of mean, that hurt my feelings,&amp;quot; but its all part of just being human and I want them to know that that even I get it. 17: How do you deal? KG: I call my friends and I&amp;#039;m like, &amp;quot;This made me feel upset, what do I do with this?&amp;quot; And they&amp;#039;re like, &amp;quot;Why do you pay attention to what other people think of you?&amp;quot; You just really can&amp;#039;t. No matter how much you want to, these people either don&amp;#039;t know you, or they&amp;#039;re jealous, or they have their own agenda, or they&amp;#039;re too insecure to be themselves. So they&amp;#039;ll attack you. You have to just talk to your friends, talk to your mom, or if you don&amp;#039;t have them around that moment, just say, &amp;quot;You know what? I can handle it. It&amp;#039;s fine. I can do this,&amp;quot; and just keep going. What else can you do? What do you think of Kat&amp;#039;s advice? Have you ever felt bullied before? Comment below! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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