Little Mix came onto the scene under intense public scrutiny as contestants on The X-Factor in 2011.
Four years later, the British girl group is more confident as they prepare to release their fourth album, Love Me Like You and fighting back against the body shamers.
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Jesy Nelson had an emotional moment on The X-Factor discussing the damage of having negative comments on her appearance reinforcing her own insecurities.
"When you have your own insecurities, and when you know them yourself, and people go and tell you and write them on websites for everyone to see, it just makes you feel pretty rubbish," Nelson told bandmate Jade Thirlwall on the show.
“We just try to forget about any nasty comments really," Jesy Nelson told Yahoo. “We like to eat food and so does everybody else, and if we put on weight, we put on weight. And if we lose weight, we lose weight."
Nelson continues, urging fans to love themselves, “Everybody has this preconception that you’re supposed to be perfect looking, but nobody is perfect.”