After leaving the villa, she felt huge pressure to do well, with a lot of people assuming she would become a big influencer.<\/p>\n
But she was only able to stay self-employed for a year through a few brand deals.<\/p>\n
“They were really, really fun but I found myself entering kind of like a toxic state, my success measure just being completely off, and I was measuring success with the amount of followers that I had, with the amount of brand deals that I had,” she added. <\/p>\n
Ellie said her mental health suffered, and some months she would make lots of money, the next, nothing.<\/p>\n
There was also negative comments online from people who didn’t know her. She added: “I think after a while, you kind of learn how to cope with them, the block button is free.”<\/p>\n
Ellie said she “completely forgot” how successful she was in other ways.<\/p>\n
“I just forgot about that part of my life where I’d got an English degree, I got into a really big accountancy firm,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I’d forgotten about that and just solely just made my life dependent on my followers and my social media, which was wrong.”<\/p>\n
Looking back she realises this was “really toxic”, adding: “I applied to get back into my old job and thankfully they had me back.”<\/p>\n
She now has her full-time salary again, with her social media work “a bonus”.<\/p>\n
“I’m just really busy and I feel fulfilled now because I’m able to do both things that I love which is being successful at my corporate job and fingers crossed being successful with social media on the side,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After leaving the villa, she felt huge pressure to do well, with a lot of people assuming she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-219321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}