It may seem like Channing Tatum would have had a fairly easy childhood due to his looks, but the actor now reveals that it was tough on him growing up because he was not "smart enough."

In an interview with New York Times Style Magazine, the actor opened up about his struggle to fit in because he was labeled based on his intellectual abilities.

"I have never considered myself a very smart person, for a lot of reasons," Tatum said in the magazine's cover story.

"Not having early success on that one path messes with you," the actor continued, and went on to reveal his tough teenage years trying to fit in.

"You get lumped in classes with kids with autism and Down syndrome, and you look around and say, 'Okay, so this is where I'm at.' Or you get put in the typical classes and you say, 'All right, I'm obviously not like these kids either.' So you're kind of nowhere. You're just different," Tatum explained further.

Tatum continued that though he did not have artistic parents, he surrounded himself with people who exposed him to the arts, especially when he moved to New York as a model.

"I just learned everything I could from anybody who knew something I didn't," Tatum told the magazine.