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Jesy Nelson has defiant message for online trolls as Little Mix head to Newcastle

She had viewers' hearts breaking right across the country with her frank and honest documentary Odd One Out and now Jesy Nelson has issued a defiant message for online trolls who got to her so much that she tried to take her own life.

In her BBC documentary, which has just been shortlisted for an NTA, Jesy opened up about the devastating effect cyber bullies had on her, prompting her to hate herself when Little Mix won X Factor 2011, before things took a horrendous turn for the worse when she made a suicide attempt a few years later.

But now, as she and bandmates Jade, Perrie and Leigh-Anne head to Newcastle's Utilita Arena on their , Jesy has revealed she no longer cares what online trolls think about her.

In an interview with House of Soho, Jesy said "You get more confident as you get older, and you learn not to give a c**p as much."

South Shields girl and bandmate Jade added: "I think we have just grown into our skin. We are so comfortable and confident now... that's not to say we don't have days where we feel like c**p. We just like not wearing make-up, as well as wearing make-up now."

In Odd One Out, Jesy revealed that brutal tweets from trolls led to her starving herself before Little Mix returned to The X Factor for a performance in 2013 and was then left broken when Katie Hopkins tweeted "Packet Mix have still got a chubber in their ranks. Less Little Mix. More Pick n Mix."

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