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Molly Mae Hague

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  1. “It was a lot of learning very quickly, and I've just always asked, I'm not afraid to ask, and then that's a really important thing. Don't be afraid to ask if you don't know.”

    2021-12-13 · The Diary of a CEO · Molly Mae: How She Became Creative Director Of PLT At 22 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “When you transparent, we're not RBN finance meetings with Fran, and we'll be talking about growth, profit. And I say, can we just rewind? I have no idea what we're talking about here. And I'm really, really transparent with that. I tried to just remember I am 22. They didn't teach me this stuff in school. They really didn't. And I'm talking about mortgages and stuff, I didn't know what a mortgage was until a few months ago, I'll be honest, because when I started looking at buying a house, I was like, so what is a mortgage? Because I didn't know. And I think that's how I've sort of gotten away from that imposter syndrome. I just ask. I just ask the questions. I'm not embarrassed. And I've had to learn a lot really quickly. I didn't know anything at the start of this process. I didn't know, I don't think I hadn't earned enough money to even pay a tax bill before. I didn't understand. I was making a thousand pounds a month before the show. So I'd never paid a tax bill. And it was...”

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  3. “No. But when I was listening to your Warmouth Patricia Bright, you said a few words, and I was like, don't know what that means. And I was like, he's definitely that's going to happen. But I'm really honest.”

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  4. “I guess I'm extremely honest when I need to ask questions when I don't understand what the hell's going on. Like I actually said to Fran, I was like, I bet Stephen's going to use loads of words that I have no idea what they mean. And I'm just going to have to sit here and pretend that I have a clue what he's on about when really I don't.”

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  5. “Have a girl modeling up the fake hand that lots of girls can relate to. That's why we use, like, always use multiple models in our campaigns and plus size. We try and sort of cater to everybody.”

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  6. “I wouldn't even say so because as I said before, I don't think Phil is a bad thing. If it's done safely and it's done in a way that makes a girl feel more or a guy feel more confident, then that's great. Whatever makes that person feel amazing, that's what I like. And a model comes in and we like her and she's got a face full of filler. That's not a problem because another girl that's looking at that campaign also might have a face full of filler. You know, again, I don't really judge people based on things like that. I made a mistake with it once, but at one point I loved it and it did make me feel confident. So no, I think we just, like when we look booking models for filter and things, we just want to be relatable and we want to sort of.”

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  7. “But I think then I did because I was really vulnerable. Like, I just had all this filler removed. No one had really seen me like that. I looked really different, I did. And I think people noticed it, but people really admired it because it was different. It was new. No one had really done that yet. I wouldn't want to say that I started a trend, but I do feel like I did start a bit of a trend with the sort of dissolving. And again, I'm proud of that because, yeah, I might have been a bit uneasy about it at first, but now loads of people are doing it and I love it. It's like an amazing movement.”

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  8. “Hugely happy that I'd landed the cover because it was a dream. It's huge. My mom used to buy me that magazine when I was younger and it was, it was, I couldn't believe that I was going to be on the cover, but that was the first time I'd been pictured after I'd had all the filler removed and I actually despised the picture so much that I just, I cried about it for days. Yeah, because I didn't get approval of the image and I just thought I sort of prayed. I was like, I really hope I like the image. And I absolutely hated it. And it went out and it was fine. And everyone was telling me how amazing I looked. And it was kind of sad that after everyone has sort of confirmed that they thought I looked nice, then I felt better. That's a bit sad because I think I didn't until people started to start to say that. And I never really thought I was that girl. I always sort of thought I don't need people to tell me that I look nice.”

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  9. “Yeah, well, yeah. I mean, it didn't happen overnight. I can't sit here and say, like, I suddenly just felt incredible. Like it was a huge change. I literally, I look like a different person with all the filler in and a different person with it out. And there was a moment where I'd just done the cover for Cosmopolitan magazine and it was a really big deal to me. I was so...”

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  10. “She's so happy the effect it had on her children, and my mum started crying, and it was all like emotions. My mum was, when the woman walked away, she was like, I'm so proud of you. And I just didn't realize from me doing that, the effect it would have on so many people.”

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  11. “They do feel amazing with it, and that's great. But for me, the minute I started to sort of reverse my image and dissolve the filler and dissolve my lips, and I actually had full set of composite bonding, like veneers on my teeth, I had them removed as well. I literally took it to the extremes and I just stripped myself back. And weirdly, I felt the prettiest I'd ever felt once it had all gone. And I feel like I'd dropped about five years off my age. And it was like, it was a really, really significant moment for me. And I just stripping everything back. And I didn't realize how much respect that would get me. I didn't do it for respect. I did it for myself. I didn't do it for anyone else. I did it because I knew that I needed to. But from doing it, all these young girls were like, well, all these young girls' parents were remanning Fran and saying, thank you so much. Like, this is so amazing for us to see. It's so different. I actually had some, a mum come up to me when I was visiting Hitchen with my mum. She came up to me in the street crying her eyes out, saying that she was so grateful to me for doing what I did with my filler.”

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  12. “That we will have to getting her lipilla dissolved. Sorry does not mean that we will have to go and do the same because obviously they all love their lip filler, which I think is great. Like some girls absolutely love it. And by me getting my filla dissolved did not mean that I don't agree with Philla. I got it at one point. Like I obviously loved it. And some girls, it makes them feel super confident. And it did for me for a while until I took it too far. I think it can be a great thing. It's not for me to sit here and bash it because some girls.”

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  13. “Oh, okay. Well, people would either say Yeah, quite people used to say quagmire, or they said, I look like an Xbox controller, like my face was that warped. Like, I got all kinds of things. But there was this one pivotal moment where I'd gone and I'd got loads of filler and I posted a YouTube video and I hadn't let the filler sort of settle and it was really swollen and a picture from a screenshot from that video it trended on Twitter for weeks. It was horrendous. It was utterly horrendous. It was like you can insert the picture, we'll send it to you. My face was literally like it was just awful and it was that was a moment for me as well where I was like I think things need to change. I thought one day I'm actually going to get my lips dissolved in it and it was a process. I went and got my lips dissolved and I posted about it on YouTube and I didn't expect the response that I got. It was huge and a lot of girls were tweeting saying made me laughing was like Molly made getting lip filler does not.”

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  14. “By the age of 21, I didn't look like the same person. I literally looked like a different person. When I look back at pictures, now I'm terrified of myself. I'm like, who was that girl? I don't know what happened. And it was actually only until my sister said to me, she was like, we need to sort this out. It was, it took her to tell me. I was a PA in a club. I don't remember where I was. And she texted me and she was like, I need to talk to you about the filler. Like, it's too much now. Like, it's enough. You need to stop. And then I actually sort of, I remember going on my front camera and I was looking, I was like, what's she talking about? And I actually realized I was like, I don't, it's not nice. My face, I literally, everyone used to call me quagmire. I don't even know quagmire is. I think it's like a cartoon character.”

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  15. “So I thought, well, if I want to be successful in that industry, if I want to be an influencer and I want to have a large following, I'm going to have to get that too. Like I'm going to need to do that to my face. I need jaw filler and cheek filler and lip filler and Botox to look the way these girls do. When I realize now is all just editing. None of them look like that anyway. But it's scary because I wouldn't say I got addicted to it, but”

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  16. “Thank you. Well, I was 16 or 17 when I first got filler. And 16, if it was, I think is actually illegal. I think you have to be 17 legally. But I went and got lip filler when I was around 16. And it didn't stop for a few years. I kept getting it and I kept getting it. And it became around that time was when it had become very normalized. Philla was, it was literally like going to going to the gym. Like I'm just going to go get a top up of my lip filler. It became so normalized, which is terrifying and so scary that these things are spoken about on social media. Like these aesthetic pages, they're posting all these packages you can get with filler and it's it became really normal. So I just went one day and I just got it and it was like nothing and I didn't tell my mom. I just kept it from everyone. No one even really noticed. But I think on social media, as I said before, I was seeing all these girls with filler and with all these things until I felt.”

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  17. “Yes, yeah, 100%. I am very grounded. And I think that's one thing that I'm proud of is that everyone that knows me from my life prior to Love Island, they've also I've never changed. I've always stayed the same. Yeah, my life and my circumstances have changed, but me, myself, I'm the same person and I know I am. I've never become Bougie. I've never become like I've never, you know, I just, I couldn't, it's not me. I am that I am still that girl from Hertfordshire, but just with a very different life now. But I've never changed even since I've met Fran in that two and a half years, I'm still the same person that she met on that day when I came out of La Valen. So yeah, I stand by that and I'm proud that I've stayed the same.”

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  18. “I know, I am always saying that I'm happy because I think it'd be selfish for me to say that I'm not. Like, how could I not be happy? Like 17-year-old me creeps back up things. I'm thinking, like, God, I am happy because this is all I ever wanted. And yes, every day in my mind, I think, God, I have got these worries and I have got these struggles, but let's just take a step back. I am happy. Like I sort of have to just look at the bigger picture. I'm healthy. I have my health. My family's well. I have an incredible manager. I have an incredible boyfriend. I live in a beautiful house. I'm safe. I'm happy. Like I am. Yeah, I've got all these worries about when am I next going to have a scandal? When am I next going to say the wrong thing? The bigger picture like 17 year old me again could only dream of this shit, and I'm living”

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  19. “I know, honestly. But that is another reason why I stay quiet on a lot of things. I'm often fearful to speak. And even on Twitter, I kind of stop using my Twitter because everything you say, like I remember a few months ago I went to Italy for a trip and I mentioned that I didn't like the food in Italy. And the way I worded it probably wasn't I probably could have worded it better, but I was trending on Twitter for four days about how I said I didn't like the food in Italy. And I was like literally go through a really hard time. I was like, I can't deal with this. Like I've made one comment that people didn't like about the ice cream in Italy and I'm literally trending and I'm getting like death threats because of it. And it's a lot like it's how I mean I always say like when I don't have like a scandal for a while I'm thinking God scandals come and soon I'm going to say something wrong soon like it is you're kind of always on the edge of like what's going to be next like what's what's happening next”

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  20. “Sure, I'll talk to you about filler in a bit, but Instagram was the reason I ended up getting all that filler because I was watching these girls stories thinking they have filler. So I need to go and get filler. So if I'm posting about, you know, a health journey and I've lost a few pounds, I feel great. Well, then young girls are going to go and think, well, I need to go and lose a few pounds if Molly May's done it. So everything you're saying, it has to be so clearly thought about because you have no idea how that one tiny story is going to affect that person's day with everything.”

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  21. “Yeah, I mean, it's tricky, isn't it? It's hard to know what you post, how it's going to affect people. Like you might think that posting one thing will have no effect on somebody, but actually it could be all that person thinks about that day. And it's kind of scary. It's a massive responsibility because I have super young followers as well. And I've got to be careful. You know, I've been on a bit of like a health journey recently. I've got to be so careful talking about weight loss and what I'm eating because you don't know what you're saying. It's so important. And these young girls, they're so, again, vulnerable. And I know when I was watching girls Instagram stories, I mean.”

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  22. “I would actually say the opposite. I would say I think a lot of people share the aspirational things, but they don't share the low moments. When I'm watching people's YouTubes, I'm seeing so many girls being like, my life is just so amazing. And I do these amazing things and I'm a vegan and I eat clean and I go to the gym and they don't talk about the low moments and they wonder why their audience isn't engaged. You have to be honest and you have to include those things that maybe you don't really want to include it, but your audience will appreciate that because that girl is probably also having a crappy day that's watching it. So she wants to see you also having a crappy day so she knows it's okay. And that's where I think some influencers and some YouTubers, they fall down because they don't, they're not 100% honest. Whereas I really, really am and I stand by that.”

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  23. “Life is that way, you know, when you're being honest. Minute, something's really great. The next minute something's really shit, and that's just the way it is.”

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  24. “Yeah. But I sort of, that's again my YouTube is in a vlog I might be saying, oh, I've just bought this brand new watch. It's amazing. It's a cost X amount. And I'm having a really great day. But then I also might say, you know, me and Tommy just had a huge argument and I've walked out the house. In a vlog, I try and keep that balance as much as possible so I can sort of. Not because I cater for everyone, it's just because I am that way.”

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  25. “Such an interesting question, even when you say that, then I was like, That's a really valid point, and I actually, don't get me wrong, I'll be honest, I do see conversations. Variety of people. That 45 year old mum that's living on food stamps and she's got no money and she wants to see me post really normal things. But then I've got probably another girl that's following me, an 18-year-old girl that dad funds their life and they want to see the glamour. It's impossible to. Sort of cater for everyone. I try. And as I sort of, as you say, as I sort of My life is changing so much, I still try and stay as relatable as possible. And I do. I would say that I am still extremely relatable. And again, that's my YouTube. I post all these incredible things that I bar, my Instagram, and I've sort of stopped doing that now. But I, well.”

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  26. “It's so important. Like, I do YouTube because I love it. I still edit all my own content. Really, I love it. I actually find it therapeutic editing my videos and I love when I finish editing a video and I upload it. I love that sense of I just created that. It's bigger than just editing an Instagram picture and putting it through colour tone and putting a filter on it. You've spent time developing that video and you've created millions of people are going to go and watch that and spend their 20 minutes of their day watching that video that you've created. And I love that feeling. That's really special. And I've had so many video editors say like, oh, I would never give that job to someone else.”

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  27. “We know that she's actually, I spoke about a few months ago how I wanted this really, really incredible job opportunity and I didn't get it. And I'm really transparent. Like I'm like, today's been crap. I've cried today. Like I've come my period today. I'm feeling really rubbish today. Like I'm really, really transparent. So I think when they see that picture on Instagram, they know, actually, if we want to see a bit more of like a realist side here, we'll just go to our YouTube and have a look. And I love that. That is why to all my influencer friends, I say start YouTube, start YouTube. If you want your engagement to grow, if you want your audience to fall in love with you, if you want people to understand you more, you have to start YouTube because Instagram is nothing. It's a picture. I post one picture a day. What's anyone going to learn from that picture? Nothing. YouTube is where it's at. That's where they learn. That's where they engage with you and understand you and believe in you.”

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  28. “That bigger picture. You see the bad stuff that's happening in my day. And I think, do you know what? I think not to sound big-headed, but I think that is why I have a really high engagement on my Instagram is because my followers, they see me on YouTube and they see that picture on Instagram and they think, we know that she's not actually had a good day”

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  29. “You really just have to sort of accept that Instagram is Instagram and there's always going to be that one person on Instagram that doesn't like what you're doing. I've got 6.2 million followers. It is impossible to please everybody. So I've really had to understand that. You know, everything I say and everything I do, not everyone's going to like it no matter how much I wish they did because it would put my mind at rest a lot knowing that everybody loves what I'm doing. There's always going to be that one person that hates what you're doing and hates you. So you just sort of have to Sort of understand that Instagram is just very superficial and it's just a highlight reel. That's why I love my YouTube as well because I feel like my YouTube is so behind the scenes. You really get that.”

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  30. “I mean, it's compartmentalizing it. It's sort of like I. I don't really switch off. It's almost like I just sort of built into my mind. It's a 24 7. I'm always, always thinking in the back of my mind how everything I'm doing is affecting my work because that's I am my job at the end of the day. I'm Molly May and Molly May is what makes me my income. It's not like I go to work and I come back and I switch off. I'm 24-7 on my phone. Everything I'm doing, everything I'm saying, one story post that takes two seconds to post, everything I do affects how I make money, how my audience perceives me. So I just think I've just sort of like I don't know, it becomes one. My life is just”

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  31. “Yeah, you are. You are always on edge and it's a weird way to live, but it's become normal now. It's been two and a half years. And that was really early on in Barbados. That was, I think, maybe three months, four months after I'd come out of the show. And that was, okay, this is how we need to live now. This is how we need to do things. And it's just been the same. And having an incredible team as well to be protective of you is, I'm really lucky for that because I couldn't do it by myself. You're really vulnerable. Like it's such a vulnerable job to have. And yeah, perhaps posing as architect, photographers, like it's just the snakes everywhere.”

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  32. “My mom does that to me. She goes, Have you seen the comments on Daily Mail? I'm like, Mum, why would you tell me that? Don't look. I'm not looking, so neither do you just leave it. But yeah, I think obviously they're just looking out for you and they don't understand that you're probably just trying to avoid it.”

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  33. “The whole trolling thing, like, I have kind of dealt with it now. Like, I'm really good at dealing with it. I sort of had this approach if it doesn't matter. People can say what they want to say. These people are just genuinely so unhappy in their lives that they try and bring you down. And it's so sad. But you do learn to deal with it. It's just part of it. And we've really, we've learned in terms of like always on Pat Watch now. And if we go away on campaigns, like we literally have someone that's job is specifically to look out for people taking pictures so it doesn't happen again because it was it was quite bad that for me”

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  34. “There's lots. There's lots. Obviously, I've dealt with a lot in the last two years in terms of I was trolled extremely badly. I mean, it's like a cliched topic and I don't really talk about the trolling a lot because it's, I feel like it's all anyone talks about on social media these days is trolls and trolling. But it did happen to me extremely badly and there was this one time we went to Barbados to shoot a campaign for my Fakesh Ham business and we were followed the whole trip by Paparazzi. We didn't even realize and they were”

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  35. “Yeah, I've been quite blessed with my rise in that because my circle has always been small. I have not really had to cut people off because they're, you know, selling stories to the press. I've never had that. I mean, that I know of anyway. I mean, yeah. Yeah, I mean, you do have to be worried about who's in your life because I think Fraun always says this to me. She's like, you just think you're still that 17 year old girl from Hitchen. Sometimes you're not. And people will come into your life for the wrong reasons. But I think I'm a bit naive to that sometimes. And that is another reason why I keep my circle so small because it's different now. I think it's just, it's...”

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  36. “Yeah, when you first said out, I was like, Oh, God, no, I don't, but it's, yeah, it's a weird one because you don't want to sound like you don't have any friends because then people think, well, you're probably the problem there. Do you know what I mean? Like you're pushing people away. But it isn't that. It's just like, I haven't got the time. Like I really would rather just spend time with Fran because we're friends and we talk about work and we get we make money and then I spend time with my boyfriend because he's amazing and you don't need to force the conversation. You don't have to go for dinners and fill. It's just like it sounds terrible, but I just don't have the time for it. I'm lazy with it.”

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  37. “Yeah, 100%. Well, I'm not that girl from Hitchen anymore. I'm not that young girl that was a lifeguard at a hitch and swimming pool. Like, that's not me. On living a completely different in a different world now, and a lot of my friends can't relate to that. And even though I'm still the same person, my life and my circumstances, they're just so different that you do just naturally, people just feel off, don't they? But friends, I've never needed lots of friends. It's just something that I've never really needed. And people pick up that about me really quickly. They just say, like, you've got your circle so small. Bit of a loner, but I like it.”

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  38. “No. No, it's time consuming. Like trying to make people happy. Like, I've lost a lot of friends, but since coming off Long Island, because I don't have the time. And in the end, I just say, do you know what? Look, like... I'd rather focus on the things that are actually going to elevate me. And it sounds savage, but sometimes friends, they just not cling on, but They don't add much. Yeah. I know that sounds a bit savage, but.”

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  39. “Straight up, no. No, I don't. On my circle is minuscule. I have literally about five people in my circle and that includes friends. I have acquaintances and I have people in my life that I say are my friends, but I know my circle was absolutely tiny and I like it that way. I wouldn't have it any other way. I work, I spend time with my boyfriend and I go to bed. That is literally my life. And I'm not bothered about social life. It's never been something that I've been interested in. I don't know if you've like I don't know if you know, but I don't really drink. I don't party. I don't go out. But that is just because I actually don't enjoy it. It's not for me. I'd rather just focus on making money, being successful and being happy. That's friends, they come and go. I just find it a waste of a waste of time.”

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  40. “I'll sit on my sofa and I won't work another day and I'll be happy it's not that way. It isn't. You think it will be and don't get me wrong, it's incredible and I'm so happy. I'm the happiest I've ever been. I don't want for more, but I do, if that makes sense. I don't know.”

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  41. “It's a huge anti-climax, isn't it? It's mental. Like, don't get me wrong, it's incredible to reach your goals, but it is a little bit, oh, you know when you hear people, the richest people in the world and they say you're not happy though, because you have all this money thing, yeah, you are happy, like course you are, you've got all this money, but they're probably not because it really actually doesn't mean anything, all of that stuff. Your happiness comes from within and the people around you and your life. It doesn't come from how much money you have in your bank and what car you drive and what house you live in. It really doesn't. It sounds cliche, but I've learned that and I'm only 22 in it and I've realized that straight away. I'm like, oh gosh, okay, it actually doesn't come from all this stuff. It comes from your mental state and your family and the more important stuff really, the non-superficial stuff.”

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  42. “Think again, going back to that point where when I'm older and I've got my kids around me and I want to literally look back and say like my life was unbelievable like I did every single thing I could possibly ever want to do. There's not one thing on my list that's not ticked and I think I'm not there yet and I know Possible, so why not? Like, we literally only are given one life. We have to just go to the extremes. And that's what I'm trying to do.”

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  43. “I'm working on that, I think, because even recently that we moved into a new place, we moved into this new house, and I've realized I've actually got a bit of a problem with it because I was like, this house is literally a dream. It's a dream, but it's not enough for me because I still want more. Like, I still want a bigger house. I still want bigger things. And it's like I need to work on that because you do need to find that happiness because, you know, 16, 17 year old me is screaming at the things I'm doing right now. And I'm still like, it's not enough, you know? But I think that's why I'm doing the things I'm doing and I am achieving great things because it's... I'm never sort of like, okay, yeah, I'm happy this week. I'll just sit down, and this is fine. No, it's like, what are we doing next week? It's always more.”

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  44. “So many different things, but I think I knew the minute I came off that show that I just wanted to do crazy things. And one thing for me is that when I reach one goal, it's what can I achieve next? It's never enough for me. And I think there's a bit of a downside to my personality because when I achieve something incredible, I just want more. I always want more. Like I remember I was speaking to fan about this. I was like, I remember when my goal was, I really want to get a million pounds in my bank account. That's all I wanted to do. I was like, that is my goal. And then the minute I reached it, I was like, well, I want two now. I want two million. And it's like I never am happy with where I'm at. I'm constantly working towards the next thing. But I think you need that. You need that work ethic. You need that desire to always want more. It's never enough for me. Even when I got my biggest dream collabs and it's just, what can I get next? Fran's thick of it as well. She's like, it's enough now. Come on.”

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  45. “The time my influencing was going really well, and there was actually a side in me that thought I can actually do this without going on this show. Like, I know I'll be finding the way my following was growing rapidly. Like, I think I was about 170,000 followers at that point. And that was all organic growth. There was no TV shows or anything. And I hadn't had any friends of large followings that sort of posted me. It was all very natural growth. So I knew I'd say now that if I hadn't gone on the show, I'd probably be, I'd like to say I'd be hitting a million followers because I had that really good work ethic with my Instagram. The show just sort of, it just elevated me. And then I think one thing I always say is that when you come off that show, you're all on a level playing field and it's totally up to you where you go with it. And I just knew that I wanted to go just to levels that no one had ever gone to. And that's why I never really speak about it because I just feel like I don't owe that. That's not the reason why I am where I am now. Yeah, it gave me a platform. Yeah, it elevated me, but the things I've done now are not because I love Ireland. They're because of me.”

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  46. “Well, it's tricky. I've always struggled with how to talk about it because I answered a question once on my YouTube about was Love Island a business move for you. And it is tricky for me to say the right thing without upsetting people, but put it this way, I didn't go on that show to find love. No one does. People go on it for the experience. People go on there for a laugh. And I think because I went on there with a completely probably incorrect mindset, that's why I did come out with a boyfriend. And I think, because you know when you're not expecting something, it happens. But yeah, I remember that they came forward and I just thought.”

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  47. “We're literally like best friends. I say she's like a second mum to me. It's grown that way because we spend like we spend every day together. We're on the phone 24-7. Like I speak to her more than I speak to Tommy. Absolutely. Like it's the constant, constant conversation. It never stops if we're not on the phone. We're texting. If we're not texting, we're in person with each other. Yeah, so like even after the last few weeks of what's been going with Tommy and I, like, Frant took us in. She's looked after us. She's like my mum in Manchester. Like without her, I'd honestly don't know how to have got through the last few years of my life. She's, yeah, much more than manager. And I'm so blessed. I know it's not a normal situation for people to have a manager like that. And I know when you come out of a show like Love Island, having that manager that is on it is so key. It is honestly so, so key because without that, it can really, really fluff things up for you, which I've seen firsthand with so many people. And it's so sad. But yeah.”

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  48. “That chat on my YouTube because it showed people that you know there's so much more to it than people see with this whole influencing thing. They have no idea what really goes on.”

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  49. “That's the thing. Like, as I just said before, no amount of money can make me take a job that I don't believe in. If I'm not wearing the clothes, I'm not taking the job, no matter if they offered me 5 million, 10 million. And I just solely believe that because the money will come from your audience appreciating that you didn't take that job. Do you know what I'm saying? Like it's. I'd rather build that trust than take that money because the trust is what will earn you money in the future anyway. So I know that £2 million is going to come back to me at some point because I'll work with another brand that I do believe in instead. And my audience will see that and they'll buy into it. They'll like the picture. They'll engage with the content whereas they're not going to if I took that brand deal before so because the audience see through, they're not stupid. People I follow on Instagram that I love when they do something that's not authentic. I see straight through it because you're the consumer like you know and it's just, yeah, I think I did a new ring up that 2 million one because everyone was really fascinated by it. I think everyone was really shocked, but that's the side to me that people don't see and I was really glad that me and Francis”

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  50. “Is that the goals? We have like Fran and I have this sort of regular meeting every like six months or so and we sit down and we make a list of what I want to achieve. And it used to be, well, at the start, we were like, going to do it every year, but I am achieving them rapidly now. So we're doing it like every few months and creating new goals and setting new targets of like, okay, I want to work with this brand. So if they've not reached to me, Fram will reach out and lo and behold, it normally happens. We're a really, really great team. And I think having a manager that understands your direction, what you want to do is utterly key because. Know it's just so important, like you can't do it alone, it's impossible. Like, okay, it's not impossible, but I couldn't do it alone, no way.”

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