Becoming Molly-Mae

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From the energetic child who loved Irish dancing and pageants, to the teenager holding down a job at Boots whilst building her dreams at fashion school, her journey to Love Island and how she copes with fame today,” it continues. Yet once you get past the Notes-app style writing, what becomes clear is that Hague is adamant about controlling her narrative in this book. I’ve always felt the impulse to do more, achieve more, experience more”, she pens in the introduction. It explores the friendship between two little girls and the vicissitudes of the short-term relationship.

It's no surprise that I was most struck by the illustrations here, as Blackwood is one of my favorite picture-book artists, but the story itself is also very appealing, capturing the ups and downs of girlhood social interaction quite nicely. The narrative captures the innocence of friendship between two children – they are bests of friends within hours of meeting and could hate each other just and back again within the same time span. The influencer recently faced widespread backlash for comments she made on Steven Bartlett’s The Diary of a CEO podcast, where she remarked that “we all have the same 24 hours of the day” which caused people to accuse her of being tone-deaf.

I was quite excited to read this book but I didn’t feel much passion in Molly’s writing and all in all I’d say it was very average!

Overall, if you want an easy read and something a bit different and inspiring (or you’re just a bit nosy! Molly-Mae was the Creative Director of Pretty Little Thing from 2021 - 2023, as well as owning her own brand, partnering with some huge brands AND is now a proud mum and fiancée! After admitting he'd fallen in love with Molly-Mae, boxer Tommy then melted the hearts of the nation when he asked the model to be his girlfriend, with the help of his BFF Curtis. Welsh secretary David Davies savages Labour-run NHS in the country as 'shambolic' after his father-in-law,.It felt very juvenile like it was written for 12 year olds and there wasn’t much information in there I didn’t already know . Signing on for another year with the brand, it is rumoured to be a seven-figure deal - making Molly-Mae a multi-millionaire. Molly-Mae became the Creative Director of Pretty Little Thing in August 2021, with a reported six figure salary before stepping down from the role in June 2023.

It is then, rather repetitive and maybe a little grating as she almost constantly declares how different from “all the other girls she is�

Molly and Mae meet each other at a train station, waiting to board their train, and the two become fast friends.