Zara McDermott

“I look back at my social media, especially 'On A Day With Zara' a few years ago, and I'm like, 'Oh my god, I was posting constant body checks!' I was younger and thought it was the coolest thing in the world.”

“You are as beautiful as you believe yourself to be.”

“I'm bursting with ideas.”

“The biggest thing I've learnt is that sometimes you have to be vulnerable and hold your hands up and own your mistakes.”

“There are two sides to me - I can be quite serious but I'm also spontaneous, fun and energetic.”

“I can't believe people are so abusive about my weight, or anyone's. I feel like people in the limelight can't do right from wrong. If they're seen as fat, they're told to diet, or too skinny and they're told to eat a pizza.”

“The island has a little piece of my heart - if you go down my Instagram feed, you will see plenty of photos of me in Ibiza over the years - I've been there before as an influencer.”

“It's plastered in front of us all the time - pictures of other people. It just forces us to compare what we look like with someone else. It's in front of our eyes and on our phone screens all the time.”

“Even the smallest comment can hurt in the worst way. I don't think people realise that.”

“When I was younger, I was like, 'I'm going to have babies by the time I'm 25, I'm going to be married.' I genuinely thought that for myself, I always thought I can't wait to be a mum, and now that time has come, my priorities have shifted.”

“There are so many influencers out there and I'm just a drop in the ocean but we all have a shared duty to be responsible.”

“I don't think relationships should be put in a box.”

“You should never judge a young person for grabbing an opportunity.”

“We don't know everything all the time, and that's OK.”

“I'm an independent career woman.”

“When you first come out of 'Love Island' villa, you're hot property for advertisers.”

“There is some stigma around reality television, and I've never quite understood it.”

“I over-styled my hair when I came out of 'Love Island' and curled it pretty much every day for a year.”

“I was told so many times I was fat and there's a finite amount of times you can hear that before you actually start to believe it.”