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Little Mix’s Jesy Nelson Opens Up About Online Bullying: ‘It Used To Make Me Cry’

Part time Mixer and full-time QUEEN Jesy Nelson has opened up about the trolls who target her on social media.

The Little Mix singer admitted that the ‘disgusting’ comments she receives have often reduced her to tears, but that thanks to the support of the girls in the band and her fiancé, Rixton’s Jake Roche, she’s been able to deal with the abuse better.

We first saw Jesy struggling with trolls in the very early days of Little Mix, when X Factor bosses aired footage of the singer breaking down over comments posted on social media that picked on her size.

Speaking to Cosmopolitan magazine, Jesy said: “It used to make me cry. I was shocked at the time. I was a young girl and I thought, 'What have I done to you? Why do you have to be mean to me?’ I’m not a nasty person and I took it to heart. Some of the things people said were disgusting. It really affected me.”

However, despite the bullying she’s received on online, the X Factor alumnus said that she’s still 'loving’ being in the band – and that Leigh-Anne, Jade, Perrie and herself are all addicted to each other’s friendship.

She told the magazine that: “To be honest, we’re just loving what we’re doing and we get to experience all of this together, which is amazing. There aren’t many people who can say they see different things every day.

"We genuinely get on so well, and even though we’re in each other’s pockets, we never argue - and no one believes us, but even when we get done with work for the day, we still want to have sleepovers. It’s like we’re addicted to each other.”

The girls are currently in the middle of their 'Get Weird’ tour, but have come under scrutiny for their 'racy’ outfits.

With some people suggesting that some of their outfits might be ‘too raunchy’ for their young fans, the girls have defended their choices, explaining that they just go for things they’re comfortable in.

Perrie told The Mirror: “We wear what we feel comfortable in. We’re not overly sexy in what we do anyway. We go for sexy/cute. We’d never want to be ­scandalous.

“I think we’ve got the right kind of balance. Some of us are 24. We aren’t going to be able to wear stuff like this for the rest of our life, and parade around in little dresses and stuff, but at the same time, we are just girls.”