“A lot of it was like, ‘If you ever feel forgotten, remember this guy.’
Or, ‘Frankie Jonas is a talentless sack of s—,'” he said.
For years, Frankie Jonas was dubbed “the Bonus Jonas” of hisfamous brothers.
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“I always hated that nickname,” he toldBustle.
Frankie was only a kid when his older siblings’ band the Jonas Brothers became hugely popular.
People mocked him for his weight and joked about him being the least famous of his siblings.
“A lot of it was like, ‘If you ever feel forgotten, remember this guy.’
Or, ‘Frankie Jonas is a talentless sack of s—,'” he told the outlet.
“It became a form of self-harm to look at these things,” Frankie continued.
“Then it became essentially an OCD, like a tic.
I couldn’t stop.
I checked it every day, and Ihadto, to feel okay in a way.
It really became a serious issue for me.
A lot of that perpetuated the idea that I was just this meme.
Looking back, he’s able to laugh at his past mistakes.
“That was my biggest issue with my name and with my public image.
Now 20, Frankie is a star in his own right.
“I was just making jokes, thinking no one was hearing them.
And then people heard them and liked them.
This feels like so much of my thing.
It feels so empowering to have a thing.”
