Former 'Love Island' star Montana Brown has urged others to take social media comments with a "pinch of salt" after she felt pressured into getting a "really bad" filler.
Former Love Island star Montana Brown has urged others to take social media comments with a 'pinch of salt'
The 27-year-old star was then trolled about her face after getting the filler, leaving her feeling "really low", but she admitted the negative incident kick started her "self-love journey".
Speaking to The Sun newspaper to mark International Women’s Day, she said: "I ended up getting this really bad filler. Bearing in mind I was 22, I did not need it at all.
"I started getting negative comments like, ‘What have you done to your face?’.
"So that was one of the really low moments for me and I thought, ‘Actually, I can’t please everybody, I’m just going to have to be happy with the way I am, then everything else will come’.
"I think the self-love journey really started there.
"So if there’s one thing I’d say, especially with social media, just take it with a pinch of salt.
“Everyone’s beautiful in their own unique way.
“And I think we all strive to look like people on Instagram or celebrities, and actually beauty is within your uniqueness.”
Montana took part in the dating show in 2017 but admitted she had grown up not knowing what Botox was.
She added: "Being 21, 22, I was like, ‘Oh, what’s that?’ because I’d grown up not knowing what it was.
"Then people were trolling me, saying, ‘You should get this done, you need to go get that done’. I was really disheartened.
"I went through a phase of being really into social media."
Montana previously admitted she didn't have a "confidence problem" until she appeared on the show.
Speaking in 2021, she said: "Now I never had a confidence problem until I went on 'Love Island'.
"I started picking myself apart because people were like, 'she's got a lazy eye' ... and I started thinking I had a lazy eye and considered getting eye surgery."
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