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Dear Jellybean,

I have a guy friend and he's in my French class. He's nice, cool, and he always tries his best in whatever he does (like he's always optimistic). Whenever I'm feeling sad, he always talks to me and tries to help me out. Anyway, there are these girls that are kind of his friends, like they talk to him and they make fun of him in a playful way. But whenever they get mad at each other, he only argues his point, while when they try to make him feel bad, they're always saying, "Well, it's because you have such a big nose and you look so weird!" It's so mean, isn't it? Then after that, they're all back talking to each other again. Usually when those girls say that to him, he ignores it. But today, when they said that insult again to him, he put his face behind my desk and was touching his nose, like he wasn't confident of himself anymore. I mean, his nose shape fits him and he's not ugly at all. But whenever he does that, it always hurts me because I know exactly how it feels when somebody calls you ugly, and then you don't want to show your face to anyone. What can I do to make him feel better? I want him to feel better about himself because whenever my friends have poor body image, I feel so bad for them that I don't even say anything. I have even been in that situation where somebody has called me short and weird-looking, but for me, it's worse when somebody talks to my friend like that. What should I do?

-Feeling Bad