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Love Island’s Liberty Poole shares her beauty must-haves with KATIE WRIGHT
NO one went on more of a journey during the 2021 summer series of Love Island than Liberty Poole.
The Birmingham-born contestant left the villa four days before the final after splitting from Jake Cornish, with whom she’d been coupled up from day one.
While the pair initially seemed destined to live happily ever after, it became clear Liberty was more invested in the relationship than Cornish, who, viewers suspected, may have been exaggerating his feelings for the cameras.
“You know what? It still affects me,” says Liberty, who now lives in Manchester. “But in a good way. That was the first time I ever walked away [from a relationship] and said ‘No, I’m choosing me.’”
It helped that the bubbly blonde – who has 1.5m followers on Instagram – was embraced by the show’s fans.
“I was really fortunate, because I know some people can come out and they haven’t always had the nicest comments about them, which can be quite hard. You have to be mentally strong.”
However, the 22-year-old wasn’t prepared for some of the backhanded compliments she received.
“Little things, like ‘the cameras did me dirty’ and ‘I’m so much better looking in person’,” Liberty explains. “I’m sure people don’t mean it in a horrible way, but sometimes you’re thinking, ‘Oh God, what did I look like?”’
The former marketing student says her time on the reality show made her more confident.
“I think I don’t hold back on my views as much now.
I put myself first as well – I never used to do that,” she reflects.
Now, the Skinny Tan ambassador is warning sun worshippers about the dangers of too much UV exposure with the brand’s ‘Fake it don’t bake it’ campaign, in partnership with charity Melanoma UK.
“It’s creating awareness of melanoma, which is skin cancer,” says Liberty, who used sunbeds until she noticed a mole had on her stomach.
“I went to get it checked out and they were like, ‘It’s not cancerous at the moment, but it could turn aggressive’.
“Since then I just haven’t gone on a sunbed.”
I think I don’t hold back on my views as much now. I put myself first as well...