Molly-Mae Hague 'has no life' - I don't feel sorry for her
That's what Molly-Mae Hague complained about on her YouTube vlog recently and I was horrified by such a claim.
This spring and summer alone, Molly-Mae has (deep breath): attended Wimbledon in a prime centre court seat with Evian; bought a £86,000 campervan for a family holiday in the Isle of Man; and celebrated her 26th birthday in Disneyland Paris.
And during the rest of the year to date she's enjoyed a luxurious 'work trip' to St Moritz (the 'torture' of which was heavily documented in her Amazon Prime documentary); been to Dubai – twice; jetted off to support Tommy Fury's boxing in a five star Budapest hotel;.
If she doesn't categorise all this as 'fun', or her having 'a life', I fear she will never be happy.
Frankly, her complaining isn't just tiresome, it's tone-deaf.
While I am sure there are struggles involved with being in the public eye, influencing, by comparison to almost every other job out there, is an inherently fun job.
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She should count herself incredibly lucky to be able to make so much money doing something so largely untaxing.
Let's get one thing straight: Being an influencer is not a hard job.
Being a nurse is hard, as is being a state school teacher, or a criminal lawyer, or a sheep farmer on a winter's day or a bricklayer in the heat. I could go on.
So I don't care what she says, her job is essentially getting paid a disproportionate amount for having a nice time.
One sponsored Instagram post from Molly-Mae can reportedly make her over £10,000 – forgive me but, this is an obscene amount of money, is it not? Especially given that it's not exactly a huge output for the returns.
And yet she complains that her life is either kids or work when all she wants is to 'go to a beer garden' (which apparently is what would make her summer fun).
'If it's not work and kids I am not doing anything.' The 'poor' influencer told her sister Zoe – who has recently come under fire herself for fleeing a holiday in Bali after 48 hours because it didn't meet her expectations.
'I don't remember the last time I did my hair and makeup and put an outfit on for something that wasn't work related,' Molly-Mae, whose job is dressing in nice outfits, added.
Granted, it's always been her ordinariness that's made her so captivating with followers.
Her audience has loved her since she wandered onto Love Island as a beige-loving girl from a normal upbringing and they've heralded her as their big sister who just 'gets' them ever since.
But these latest comments make it impossible to feel sorry for her because there's nothing normal about her current world view.
If reports of her 2024 to 2025 income are to be believed, then Molly-Mae – who already has a reported £6 million net worth – took home around £2.5 million. Beer gardens are therefore well within reach.
As is the possibility of getting a nanny for Bambi or sending her to nursery so she can get the requested me-time.
The reality is a quarter of UK mums are forced to quit work due to how expensive childcare is in proportion to their wage. Molly-Mae's ability to work therefore is a luxury for mums in 2025.
While everyone has justified problems no matter how rich, famous and privileged, Molly-Mae has no right to voice such specific complaints. https://www.instagram.com/p/DFiEeHSt18d/?hl=en&img_index=1
Her audience are likely on the average UK salary of £37,430, but for Molly-Mae to take home the same she would only need to do 1.49% of the work load she is currently 'struggling' under. More Trending
I'd like to see her try and manage that.
Molly-Mae wants us to 'normalise' not doing anything, 'for the girls that are going to get to the end of summer and not done one fun thing,' she says.
If she wants to do that then maybe she shouldn't be dumping a load of shiny photos of her incredible looking summer – which likely cost more than most people earn in a lifetime of soul-destroying, difficult and unglamorous graft – in the same breath.
Talk to us about your problems Molly-Mae by all means, but talk to your sister about your workload in private and please, for the love of god, don't complain about your lifestyle to us.
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