The second part of Molly-Mae Hague's Amazon docuseries, Molly-Mae: Behind It All, has just dropped and the influencer is as candid as ever when it comes to talking about body confidence – sharing how her body has changed since having her daughter, Bambi, 2, who she shares with boxer Tommy Fury.
In particular, Molly-Mae discusses how she feels her hips have widened and that she now has more stretch marks, both of which are totally normal and nothing we should ever feel ashamed of – so it's great to see someone with such a big platform talking about it openly. Bodies are pretty darn amazing and do some seriously impressive adjusting while growing and birthing a human, and the Maebe founder is no different in her experience of that.
In one episode, while attending the L'Oréal fashion show in Paris, we also see Molly-Mae backstage watching Kendall Jenner and Cara Delevigne and comparing herself to the models. "I'm looking at everybody in here and they're absolutely impeccable," she says, before the clip cuts to a scene of her speaking to a documentary crew member, who asks "How confident are you in your own skin?".
To this, Molly-Mae then speaks really openly about her postpartum body journey and says, "I think having Bambi made me go on a real journey with my body. I have days where I get up and I don't feel great. I've got a lot of stretch marks. You know my hips are a lot wider now. Everyday there's a pressure to look a certain way."
She also discusses how going through these common changes after pregnancy can be tough when you're in the spotlight, calling some of the comments from trolls as 'savage'.
"I think what's hard as well is that I see a lot of comments. When you see hundreds of people writing negative things about you," the mother-of-one says. "Constant comments on my appearance and my weight. It can be a bit savage sometimes the things that people say."
Huge respect to Molly-Mae for sharing her body-related thoughts in this way, and here's hoping that this part of the docuseries will make people think twice before writing nasty comments online.
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