Malin Andersson has revealed she got plastic surgery after appearing on Love Island due to trolling.
The 28-year-old appeared on the 2016 series of the hit dating show, and was dumped from the villa on day 25.
The reality star admitted she put on a “brave face” at the time but secretly she was “dying inside”.
Speaking on Lookfantastic’s YouTube channel series ‘Fearless’, the reality star said: “It was overwhelming when I saw the trolling about my appearance.”
“That added fuel to the fire and when I came out I thought, ‘Right, I’ve got to change my whole f***ing appearance, I need to get this done and that done.’ My self-esteem plummeted completely.”
“Even though you put on a brave face and you’re on social media trying to pretend you’re living the high life, actually you’re dying inside. It’s all a farce, it’s absolute bull***t.”
“I booked myself into Turkey and went for a bit of lipo and a breast uplift. But having that done didn’t solve anything that was going on in my head. It’s just a band aid.”
During this time, the reality star’s mother was battling cancer for the second time – and she sadly passed away from the disease in 2017 at the age of 65.
Malin confessed: “I was in denial about her becoming ill again, ‘Oh, she will be fine, she will be fine.’ I am in the party scene, trying to stay relevant. It was so f**king embarrassing, I had no real job – I was just promoting bulls**t products trying to get dough.”
“To everyone else, you’re living a really cool lifestyle, but you’re suffering. I was suffering, I’m living at home with my mum still, who was getting ill.”
“No one actually sees what goes on behind-the-scenes properly, but you can’t blame them. You’re not sharing that part of your life and that’s why social media is very dishonest and you have to be really brave to share parts of your life – it’s not easy.”
“I was such a lost little soul. I didn’t know what I was doing with my life career wise, work wise, family, everything was kind of slipping out my hands.”
“I fell into a really dark place, the lowest I’d been to be fair,” she added.
Malin admitted that the “lowest” point in her life was after the death of her baby girl Consy in 2018.
“It’s weird, when you go through trauma, you wonder why it happens to you but it makes sense afterwards and that’s what I’ve taken from it all. I have to take a step back and view my life as a whole, and it makes sense.”
“Talking about things I’ve gone through, even though it’s painful, I know it can help someone else,” she said.
“You yourself, you need hope, hope that things will get better and they do get better.”
