Molly Maes most candid chat yet: From the moment she quit PLT to body confidence battle

Molly-Mae Hague has provided fans with her most candid chat yet as she opens up about quitting PLT, thoughts on having another baby and her ongoing body confidence battle.

The former Love Islander filmed a Q&A YouTube video for her 1.8M subscribers while parked up in Manchester in her swanky new 4×4 car addressing her fans burning questions.

After a short drive to grab some breakfast and a coffee from Starbucks, Molly-Mae began by saying she doesn't "ever" see herself moving out of Manchester. She currently lives just outside of the city in Cheshire with her boyfriend, Tommy Fury, 24, and their daughter, Bambi in a £4 million sprawling mansion.

Explaining this she said: "I've never been a person to want to go and see the world, it's very different for Tommy and I. Tommy's grown up here and has lived here for 24 years now. He loves Manchester – he says he'd love to move to America but he loves living here.

"I could never have stayed in my hometown where I grew up until now, I'd be so bored". The TV star and businesswoman grew up in Hitchin, Hertfordshire with her parents and older sister, Zoe.

The 24 year old went on to say, unlike Tommy who has lived in Manchester for so long, she still loves it and finds it exciting but added: "I do see us moving house.

"Where we're living now is not our forever home. I absolutely adore our house and we've done so much work on it but no, I definitely don't think it's our forever home. I reckon the next five years we'd be looking into getting our forever family home."

Tommy and Molly-Mae met when they both appeared on Love Island back in 2019 and have gone from strength to strength ever since. In January this year, they welcomed their first child together, a daughter called Bambi.

Having another baby

When asked by a fan if they would have another baby, Molly-Mae said: "Since having Bambi my thoughts and opinions have definitely changed on how many children I want to have.

"I've made it very clear it's been a humungous learning curve for me. The whole experience of having a baby and being a mum I definitely underestimated. Every single aspect of it".

She went on to say "I think every part of motherhood completely took me by surprise if I'm being honest. I think I'd be lying if I sat here and said I still want to have like four children.

"It's a huge challenge just to look after one baby I don't know if I'd be able to look after more than one baby. People say the jump from one to two is absolutely insane.

"At the minute I'm still on the comedown from the newborn stage, still reflecting on it and still processing it. If I'm ever lucky enough to fall pregnant again I'm going to be a bit nervous and a bit scared, because I know what's to come".

"That's not me trying to scare mums who are pregnant, obviously it's the best thing on the planet, it's the best thing that'll ever happen to you of course, but I would know now what to expect", she added.

Body image battle

Throughout her pregnancy journey, Molly-Mae continuously kept her fans updated and opened up about how her body had been changing. But talking about her body image since giving birth in the YouTube video she admitted to "really struggling at the minute."

She said: "As much as I've had a baby I'm really not helping myself.

"My diet at the minute is shocking. I'm doing next to no exercise", she added: "before I had Bambi I did use to like going to the gym, I used to love doing my walks and general exercise. But at the minute I'm like truly against it, and I have no idea why.

"Especially because every day I wake up and I look in the mirror and I'm not comfortable with the way I look and that's just me being honest.

"I do find it hard to look in the mirror naked and think like 'yeah you look great I love my body'. I'm trying to embrace it and I am accepting it, but it doesn't mean I love it and it doesn't mean I'm happy with it. I know I could be a lot happier."

She openly continued and said: "I just haven't had that moment yet where I'm like right, I'm going to start making some life changes now. I'm going to start making healthier choices. We've literally got a gym in the house and I'm making every single excuse under the sun as to why I don't wanna go in there.

"It's kind of hard for me to understand because I've never been like this before".

"I don't know why I'm massively struggling with it at the moment. Even my sister and my family are trying to help me get on track with it but I'm clearly not ready for it yet", the mum of one confessed.

Bambi's middle name

The conversation quickly reverted back to her tiny tot as one fan asked what Bambi's middle name was and said she hadn't answered it before. Molly-Mae shared: "She doesn't have a middle name. Her name's literally just Bambi Fury which is so weird because I was so certain she would have a middle name, I was adamant, but we just couldn't decide on one.

"We kept coming up with random middle names, like for a while she was going to be Bambi Winter. And now I'm like what the hell, where did we pluck that out from the sky? It wasn't anything sentimental to us it doesn't make any sense.

"We toyed with the idea of Esme because my Nanna is called Esme. Which I actually love, but in the end we were doing her birth certificate and we didn't put one down. I also feel like people might be coming round to her name now.

"At the start, it caused quite a lot of controversy. Not many people liked it, which doesn't matter at all because Tommy and I absolutely love it."

Before moving on she candidly shared with fans the hardest thing about motherhood and said: "Not found it the easiest journey at all. I find a lot of motherhood hard" before adding: "starting to enjoy it so much more now.

"I cannot even explain how different it is having a newborn" when comparing to Bambi who is now five months old. She added: "The newborn stage doesn't even compare to this. Everyone thinks Bambi looks like Tommy. I think she looks so much like my sister it freaks me out."

Quitting role at PLT

Before ending the video Molly-Mae dropped a bombshell that she had quit her role as the Creative Director of PrettyLittleThing.

She went on to say that she's still working with the fast fashion company but in a much reduced job.

Explaining this she said: "Everything's going incredibly with PLT, I literally have the most insane relationship with PLT they're literally my family. Still working with them, still doing collections, still doing edits, but I've actually decided to step down from my creative director role."

Admitting that she realised she'd announced such a huge life change suddenly at the end of her video, Molly-Mae went on to say that she's been reevaluating everything in her life ever since Bambi was born earlier this year.

"I've realised that I'm only going to get this time once with my firstborn child," the star shared honestly. "I'm only going to get Bambi being four months old once. I just feel like I have had to just rearrange my life a little bit and lose some commitments I did have.

"Myself and PLT we've decided collectively that the creative director role, as much as it was incredible, and I've literally loved being the creative director more than anything, it was such an amazing chapter for me.

"It's just naturally come to an end. I'm a mum now, I never really gave myself a maternity leave, I got straight back into work instantly."

She went on to add: "There is absolutely no drama, there is no tea, there is nothing that's gone on," the mum-of-one laughed. Adding: "I'm so grateful for PLT for giving me the opportunity in the first place".

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