Molly-Mae Hague looked downcast as she headed out in Alderley Edge with her man Tommy Fury and best friend Maura Higgins.
The former Love Island star and creative director of global fashion brand PrettyLittleThing was spotted in the Cheshire village on Wednesday afternoon after speaking candidly about the downfalls of fame and how trolls have affected her mental health.
The 22-year-old style icon and entrepreneur from Manchester was rocking a varsity jacket and leggings with white trainers.
READ MORE:
At one point the trio, who shot to fame on the 2019 series of the ITV2 dating show Love Island, stopped to pose for a selfie and smiled for the camera with a fan.
Molly-Mae has been through a turbulent year after a harrowing £800k burglary at the Cheshire home she shared with boxer boyfriend.
Last month she revealed her scar after having an endometriosis operation for the painful disorder in which tissue similar to the tissue that normally lining the inside of the uterus grows on the outside.
In September she told fans that she'd undergone surgery to remove a lump from her breast and another from her finger.
In October she and Tommy went through a terrifying ordeal when thieves 'emptied' their former home leaving them 'with not a lot of stuff at all' in an £800,000 burglary.
And her man recently had to pull out of a much-anticipated fight with Logan Paul, which was due to take place this month.
In her latest candid YouTube video the social media influencer said she had been battling through 'the hardest period of my entire life' and was trying to stay off social media.
And Molly-Mae also opened up on 'The Diary of a CEO' podcast, which was released on Monday, with Social Chain co-founder and newest Dragon's Den recruit Steven Bartlett.
It was titled 'Molly Mae: how she became creative director of PLT at 22,' but the conversation steered away from just her professional life.
"There was one time we went to Barbados to shoot a campaign for my fake tan business and we were followed by paparazzi the whole trip," she said.
"That afternoon they published the most horrendous pictures in my eyes and I rang the Daily Mail myself, I went through to customer service and I was hysterically crying asking them to take the pictures down.
"I was screaming 'please, you've ruined my life', look at the comments under the pictures.
"I would never say I've had a mental breakdown but that was close to it, I just went crazy. It was the lowest moment coming out of the show."
And she said about her fame: "There's so much more to it than people see with the whole infuencing thing, they have no idea what really goes on.
"It gave me a platform and it elevated me, but the things I've done now are not because of Love Island they're because of me and my work ethic."
Molly-Mae now has 24/7 close protection security to protect her after the burglary
"Ironically I always felt so safe in that apartment. It was where I felt I could just be a 22-year-old normal girl with a few thousands followers on Instagram. It was my haven," she said.
"The burglary has been the hardest thing because that was snatched away from us. It wasn't the materialistic things that were taken, it was the fact that I knew the minute we found out that we had to leave that place."
But Molly-Mae counts her blessings.
"I think it would be selfish for me to say that I'm not happy," she revealed.
"How can I not be when this is all I ever wanted. Every day in my mind I have worries and struggles but I take a step back and look at the bigger picture and know I'm healthy, my family are well, I have an incredible boyfriend and manager.
"I pinch myself every day I wake up and I'm so blessed to live this life."
