Leigh-Anne Pinnock reveals how 'lucky' she is to have support of Little Mix bandmates

She opened up about mental health

Author: Emma DoddsPublished 17th May 2019

Little Mix star Leigh-Anne Pinnock has opened up about the importance of dealing with your mental health properly. In an interview with Lorraine, the 27-year-old admitted she was "lucky" to have the support of her bandmates - Perrie Edwards, Jesy Nelson and Jade Thirlwall - after being the victim of cruel trolling online.

She said, "It’s horrible. Especially having to deal with it in the public eye, it is nasty. But I swear just surrounding yourself with positive people, people who are uplifting, and not looking at it helps. It is just irrelevant and it shouldn’t even be happening. It is so nasty."

She added, "I feel that me, personally, I am in such a better place now. I am so proud of who I am but it takes a while. Even now, I am not 100 percent. I don’t think anyone ever really is. It’s a journey to get to that self-love place. It is a hard journey but you will get there."

She credited her bandmates with getting her through the horrible situation, "I mean, I am just lucky to have the girls. To have the unit. I don’t know what I would do if I didn’t have that."

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After being put into a group by Kelly Rowland on The X Factor in 2011, the Little Mix girls rocked denim and trainers as they posed at the Judges Houses' stage of the competition.

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She also gushed over her boyfriend Andre Gray, a professional footballer for Watford FC. She said, "We are really good, yeah. What can I say? He is perfect. If I was single now, I think I would find it really hard to find someone who loves you for you.

"How do you even know that sort of thing? But I am really lucky, he is a good boy."

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