Jesy Nelson gives her first interview since leaving Little Mix

The incredible Jesy Nelson is our June cover star! In her first interview since leaving Little Mix, Jesy chats candidly to @FelicityHayward about the moment she knew she had to leave the band, her mental health, and getting back in the studio: https://t.co/qd4cUMorcp pic.twitter.com/WDxXyJtCjO

— Cosmopolitan UK (@CosmopolitanUK) May 4, 2021

Jesy Nelson reveals that being on set of the music video for “Sweet Melody” after lockdown was her breaking point:

“I immediately became a different person. I had anxiety. Whenever we had a music video, I put an enormous amount of pressure on myself to try and lose weight.” pic.twitter.com/Z9lzftSC3u

— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) May 4, 2021

• "There’s a scene in Sweet Melody I’m not in, because that’s when I had a panic attack and broke down. I was like,"I just want to go home." I was sobbing in the dressing room. Someone really close to me said, "This has got to stop. You can’t keep doing this to yourself. You’re going to end up where you were before."

Jesy Nelson sets the record straight to @CosmopolitanUK on why she is currently in the studio so soon after leaving Little Mix to focus on her mental health:

“I was coming out of the band because I genuinely couldn’t deal with the pressure of being in a girl band.” pic.twitter.com/yOyE0heEfF

— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) May 4, 2021

• "Now I’m on my own, I can genuinely wear what I want to wear. Before, I was wearing what I thoughtI should wear, because I was too frightened to wear certain things incase I looked bigger than the others. I’d wear corsets and shit like that to make myself look the size they were."


• "I didn’t know that I could be this happy. I thought when I was in the group that it was just normal to feel that way. And because I’d felt like that for 10 years, I just thought, "This is life." Since I’ve left, I feel free. I don’t wakeup with anxiety, thinking, "I’ve got to do a music video today, I need to starve myself." Or, "I need to go on an extreme diet so I can look like the other three." That was consuming me."


• "I looked at the other three and they were having the time of their life. I get so jealous, because I want to feel like that and enjoy it, because music is my passion. To have this dream and not be enjoying it because of what I look like, I knew wasn’t normal."


• "I don’t have to worry about having a music video or doing an interview wearing an outfit that I don’t want to wear because three other girls want to wear it."


• "It wasn’t nice for the other three to be around someone who didn’t want to be there. So I took a break. I went through a really dark time after the music video. My mum said, "This has got to stop now. I have seen you suffer too much. This has been 10 years of your life."