Since Maura Higgins stole the hearts of the nation when she appeared on Love Island, she’s built up a massive 3.1 million followers on Instagram.
While Maura’s comments are usually packed to the brim with kind words, we all know that someone with that kind of following is no stranger to online trolls either.
Speaking to Cosmopolitan UK, Maura revealed that she does respond to trolls from time to time. Saying, “I’d like to say I don’t respond to trolls but, yeah, sometimes I do. I don’t even know why. Sometimes, depending on my humour I’m just like ‘oh come on’ and then I’ll just go into a rant.”
She continued to say that although she does deal with trolls, she’s not constantly hitting the block button. “Since coming out of the villa I might have blocked maybe six. They’re the nasty trolls.”
Maura then explained that one comment in particular really struck a chord with her, when she had been training regularly during the first lockdown. “I was feeling really, really good about myself and then I was papped and this picture went online and I remember seeing a comment saying ‘she needs to lose weight’ and I was like ‘are you joking?’
“Nothing is ever good enough for some of these people, you know? You’re either too big, too small, your makeup isn’t right, your hair’s not right, all the rest… but that’s the world we live in.”