Molly Mae

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“that if you want something enough, you can achieve it”

“You’re given one life and it’s down to you what you do with it
. You can literally go in any direction. When I’ve spoken about that in the past I have been slammed a little bit, with people saying ‘it’s easy for you to say that because you’ve not grown up in poverty, so for you to sit there and say we all have the same 24 hours in a day is not correct.’ But, technically, what I’m saying is correct. We do.

“I understand we all have different backgrounds and we’re all raised in different ways and we do have different financial situations, but I think if you want something enough you can achieve it. It just depends on what lengths you want to go to get where you want to be in the future. And I’ll go to any length. I’ve worked my absolute arse off to get where I am now.”

Not someone id come across before, a reality star, who has said the above

is she being reasonable or not?

She’s very attractive, got chosen for love island and then given a £600k job.
I agree we make our own luck (to some extent), but she won the genetic lottery with her looks.
She’s tone deaf in that interview by not acknowledging this enormous privilege.
I know amazing business women, better than her, who just aren’t stunningly pretty and no one has heard of them.

She's a silly little girl
But to be fair if I could make that kind of money showing my boobs on telly I probably would haha

I don’t understand how she’s working hard though? Flying around the place and basically just taking pictures of herself in nice clothes 🤷🏻‍♀️I see hard work as being a cleaner or a builder or many of the other jobs.
She’s also been blessed with good looks and a stable/comfortable background.
Her comments are incredibly naive

Soundbite culture, yawn.

The only thing aspirational people like that could say would be how they're donating all their easily earned dough to bursaries for poor students, to build shelters, to blinkin feed people.

It's just the usual bullshit narrative that if you're poor or struggling it's because you've not been working hard enough

She’s talking absolute bollocks. She has never lived in the real world and doesn’t understand white privilege or poverty. She doesn’t understand that if you don’t know where your next meal is coming from you can’t put all your focus in achieving some elaborate ambition. You have to have the basics below you before you can climb any higher.

Thankfully for her she was born in an era when good looks and SM will make for a comfortable living.

Some good advice in her words though she hasn't lived that long, things can change overnight, she comes across a bit smug.

One social mess-up and she is gone like many before her.

@NickiWap

It's just the usual bullshit narrative that if you're poor or struggling it's because you've not been working hard enough

Exactly this.

I don't know why Beyoncé is always held up as a shining example of happiness and success. We all know she's had to forgive Jay-Z so many times for shagging around that her sister lamped him one in a lift.

@ComDummings

She’s got a very narrow worldview. Maybe put her in one of the sweatshops that make clothes for her associated brand PLT for a few weeks so she can see what hard work really is and how her success depends on the oppression of others.

This with bells on.

While what she's said comes off wrongly (that 24 hours BS for a start), there should be more people providing 'sensible' aspirational advice.
Not of the 'you can do anything' sort but the 'if you're from a certain background here's what you can do'.

Poverty of aspiration is one of the biggest issues in the UK. Not talking about people with things that actively hold them back (like disability, young carers, abusive parents). But people from 'ok' households. Enough to eat, ok parents, just no culture of achievement. In my line of work I've met plenty of enterprising young people from said backgrounds who wanted to make money, Googled it and aimed to get into traditional high paying jobs like software dev and accounting. Equally a lot of their mates had no ambition, saw no need and only started to realise it in their mid-twenties.

The above is the largest group being missed, not people with 'inspirational story' adverse circumstances.

I don' t know who she is but l think her intentions are well meant, and we must allow for some naievity at that age.
"Use your time wisely" , thats what l read, as well as "do your absolute best and dont limit yourself with where you are now."
Its alot healthier than some of the stuff being spouted currently.

@pilates

I’m surprised you have not heard of her op.

She epitomises a lot of what some young people aspire to nowadays. They don’t want a boring 9-5 job. They want to be famous on social media earning big bucks for doing not a lot.

Sadly true. My child left primary school last summer and in their year book, out of 60 kids, when the question was asked about what they wanted to do for a job at least 20 said they wanted to be an influencer/you tuber. I could have cried!

There's a difference between you can't achieve something and you can't achieve anything.

I'd say the people not seeing it, are in some way or another privileged themselves. For a lot of people the things we look down on or take for granted is an achievement and the result of hard work.

@BalladOfBarryAndFreda

A mix of Thatcherite-era ‘bootstraps’ bollocks and the latest IG fad of ‘manifestation’. Horseshit, basically.

Perfect summary there!

It's a naive and deluded comment. 'working hard' has brought her 'success' mainly down to the country she was born in and the colour of her skin.

I think she is probably trying to encourage people not to be limited in their aspirations, but this whole Disneyesque "you can be anything you want to be" thing is crap. And potentially damaging crap at that. Young people who work their socks off for a dream that they do really want, but still don't make it are then stuck with not only the disappointment of failure, but the guilt that it must be their own fault. Because if you can achieve anything you want be hard work, then failure to achieve must mean that you didn't want it enough or work hard enough mustn't it? Which is largely rubbish.
Yes, of course hard work and determination go a long way to helping people to succeed but we don't have infinite potential and we don't all have the same talents and abilities.
We should encourage young people to work hard to do as well as they can, and to try to reach their own maximum potential, but that is a world away from believing that you can be anything you want.

Ah yes the infinite wisdom of Molly Mae-sausage lips.

I remember when people used to say "We all have the same 24 hours in a day as Mother Theresa."

Times have changed.

I’ve worked my absolute arse off to get where I am now.”

Well she's right about that..... She had sex on TV with someone she barely knew for money.....

I agree with the point re work ethic and that you don’t have to have come from great wealth or privilege to be successful.

So people living in poverty just don’t work hard enough, is that it?

What this ignores are the advantages that are available to some whether it be in the form of doors which open, or the ability to comfortably take risks which might fail and always having a safety net, or having the benefit of an excellent education.

Telling people just to work hard when you come from a place of privilege is tone deaf.

She’s a young woman who comes from a position of EXTREME privilege.

She was raised in an upper middle class family who financially supported her ‘dream’ of becoming a social media star and has been handed opportunity after opportunity after appearing on a tv show that has extremely dubious morals.

She flaunts her lifestyle across social media and is in a relationship with the brother of one of the world’s most famous boxers. The pair of them are financially supported by family, are gifted tens of thousands of free things and experiences and she was offered a position in PLL after agreeing to refuse to wear any other high street clothing.

She is a creature of fortune, not hard work and what is worse is that not for a moment does she recognise. A silly young lady who will get a sharp dose of reality hard and fast over the next few days, from the way the internet is turning I don’t think she’ll come back from this.

My cat is called Molly Mae.

Her dad paid to support her after she quit her job to become an influencer. If I asked my parents to support me while I post on Instagram they’d think I’d lost the plot.

No one is disputing that there are 24 hours in a day, they’re just disputing that the only thing standing between them and becoming a millionaire is a bit of hard work and effort.

Honestly she’s ridiculous and as dodgy as she gets, PLT pay their uk staff £3.50 an hour so god knows what they’re paying their sweatshop slaves, in order to prop up her fortune. Then there was her attitude towards Covid, and the puppy farm dog she got shipped over that died about a week later.

She posts on her Instagram that she wakes up in the afternoon, posts photos of her watching Harry Potter for the millionth time, complains that getting up at 9am to go on holiday is the crack of dawn. Yet also claims she works harder than anyone else - she says she works so hard she works while others are sleeping.

She’ll look back on this and cringe. I’m just glad people are seeing her as the over entitled and privileged wotsit she is