Sigourney Weaver was forced to undergo years of therapy to rebuild her self-esteem after her mother dismissed her as a “plain”-looking girl during her youth.

The actress turned to her mother, stage actress Elizabeth Inglis, for reassurance about her looks when she was being bullied at school - but was traumatized when her mom described her features as ordinary.

And she insists she had to have “lots and lots of therapy” to recover from her mother’s harsh remarks.

She says, “I always felt gangly. I was teased at school for being a too-tall beanpole and I yearned to be the pretty one. When I was about eight, I asked my mom if I was pretty. She said, ‘No, dear, you’re just plain.’ That was, well, hard. I thought, ‘Gee, if your mom doesn’t even think you are pretty…’ It took me a long time to realize I was prettier than plain.”

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Sigourney Weaver travelled to Scotland to trace her heritage - but was left red-faced because her father had given her the wrong name to research.

The Alien star recently flew to the U.K. to find out more about her ancestry after discovering she was part Scottish.

But when she found what she thought was a castle belonging to her ancestors, her dad, TV producer Sylvester L. Weaver Jr., admitted he had gotten the family names mixed up.

She says, “My dad said we were part of the McLoud clan, so I went to Scotland and found the McLoud castle. I phoned him and there was a pause and he says, ‘You know what, I think we’re McFarlane!’”

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Sigourney Weaver had to be forced to take her career as an actress seriously by pals - because she was so self-conscious growing up.

The 58-year-old star admits she was reluctant to pursue a career in entertainment from an early age, until she was convinced by friends of her talent and finally decided to get over her shyness.

She says, “I was very shy, very self-conscious. I didn’t even decide to be an actress until my friends kept hiring me in New York. I kind of backed into it.”

Weaver adds she’s worked with many co-stars who suffered from similar insecurities: “It’s funny how many late-bloomers there are in our business. Whether through shyness or what have you, we hold back and then suddenly - boom!”

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The movie also stars Sigourney Weaver and Kate Bosworth.

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Plot Summary fro The Girl in the Park:  Enduringly traumatized by the disappearance of her 3-year-old daughter 15 years ago, Julia Sandburg (Weaver) has cut herself off from anyone once near and dear to her, including her husband Doug and her son Chris, who tried for years to penetrate her wall of isolation and despair, without success. But when Julia meets Louise (Bosworth), a troubled young woman with a checkered past, all Julia’s old psychic wounds painfully resurface, as does her illogical and increasingly irrational hope that Louise may be the daughter she lost so long ago.