Yes, the girls are always sticking up for their fans and their right to wear and dance however they want. The band gave a very powerful speech at the Global Awards, hitting back at press backlash for their stage costumes and dance moves. All of the girls except Perrie have tattoos. You can check them all out with our handy Little Mix tattoo guide right here.
See more Latest Little Mix News. Taylor Swift. Jesy has a sister called Jade and two brothers called Joesph and Jonathan. They have also been spotted holidaying in Venice in August In July, , it was confirmed that Jade had split from long-term boyfriend Jed Elliott after three years together.
A source revealed that the twosome didn't end their romance on bad terms; they simply couldn't find the time to continue seeing each other while coupled up, subsequently deciding to call it quits. Jade, along with Perrie Edwards , Jesy Nelson and Leigh-Anne Pinnock , were then put together as a four piece by the judges and went on to win the show.
Over the years, the trolling intensified. It was horrible. She missed a few public appearances and was absent from some sections of the video for Sweet Melody, released in November.
A month later, she announced she was leaving the group to look after her mental health. She had hit rock bottom; today she explains just how bad it was. O ur conversation starts with a guided tour of her many tattoos.
She has been obsessed with music and dancing since she was a little girl. Who were her heroes? She always had this little girl in her videos and I so wanted to be her. Nelson, 30, is the second youngest of four children who grew up in Essex. Her parents separated when she was five, and the kids were brought up by her mother, Janis, a police community support officer.
Nelson attended the Sylvia Young theatre school, where she specialised in dance. Astonishingly, she says she had only once sung publicly before The X Factor , when she was eight. Which takes us to the next tattoo — XIX. I assume it must be a recent tattoo about self-empowerment — a two-fingered salute to the haters. She smiles. No, she says, actually it dates back to the earliest days. She shakes her head. I was actually like a little lamb.
I do believe as you get older you learn not to give a shit. Listen to Nelson tell her story, though, and it seems anything but a linear progression towards self-belief. As a little girl, she says, she was perfectly at ease with herself.
In her early teens she was bullied and developed alopecia. By her late teens, she was working at a bar in Romford, east London, hugely popular and loving life. Then it all fell apart. O n The X Factor, she got through the audition on a vote. Gary Barlow, who was head judge in the absence of Simon Cowell, gave her a big thumbs down. Your voice is very gen-e-ric. She says The X Factor did nothing to support her when the trolling started. We were like babies: Perrie was 17, I was What should reality shows such as The X Factor provide by way of support?
The group developed a reputation for poppy hits about empowerment, independence and confidence; they spoke about sisterhood and girl power. There were 30 Top 40 singles; all six albums have made the top four in the UK with the first two, DNA and Salute, reaching numbers four and six respectively in the US charts ; and they are the only girl group to spend weeks in the UK Top I ask Nelson when she was happiest in the band.
Her answer leaves me flabbergasted. There was no bad. It was all good. I would be very shocked to hear of any band where everyone felt equal. It was always about how I looked.
Alongside the abuse came adulation. While Nelson has experienced shocking abuse, she also has an army of supporters 8. Things reached a nadir in
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