When you go to high school, your objective is usually to get into a good college, back pack in Europe once you’ve graduated “to find yourself”, then it’s off to the rat races to pay it all back — forever.
However there are exceptions to that life path, especially if your name is Kobe Bryant and you grew up in Europe before attending high school, already speak three languages and have a job making millions waiting for you in the NBA.
So while you were worried about getting into Harvard, future millionaire Kobe Bryant worried about more important things, like eating fast food. On the Kobe Bryant MTV’s “When I Was 17” episode airing this weekend, the Black Mamba breaks down why he needed to even ditch class at times to avoid cafeteria food in favor of a Happy Meal. Tell’em why Kobes!
“I had taken the bulk of my classes my first three years. So my senior year was a pretty easy year. Every day was senior cut day,” he says. “We used to just talk in between breaks or in between periods. [We’d just say] ‘You hungry?’ ‘Yeah, I’m hungry. Let’s roll, let’s go.’ ” […] I was starving. I mean, c’mon, I was a buck-20. I needed to eat something. Cafeteria pizza ain’t gonna cut it. It’s just, like, prison food,” he says. “We used to go to McDonald’s, Taco Bell.”
I’m not sure if McDonald’s or Taco Bell is a Kobe sponsor, but if he’s telling a MTV audience that’s probably skipping school as we speak, that he use to do that too. They would be insane to not have Kobe Bryant on their payroll. Somebody set up a meeting with Ronald McDonald and that chihuahua for Kobes, this instant.
“When I Was 17” — this week featuring Kobe Bryant, Brooklyn Decker and Candice Accola — premieres Saturday at 11 a.m. ET on MTV.
