UK influencer Molly-Mae Hague reveals 13 hour working day

The former reality star has opened up about what her seven-figure role with a major fashion company really involves – and the long hours.

Molly-Mae Hague has opened up about her role as creative director at one of the world’s biggest fast fashion companies, revealing she can work up to 13 hours in day in the job.

Ms Hague, who rose to fame after appearing on Love Island UK and now has over six million followers, was appointed PrettyLittleThing’s creative director last August.

The role is rumoured to come with a seven figure salary, with Ms Hague telling The Sun it often involves long hours of work.

“One day I’ll come in at 9am and won’t leave until 10pm – it doesn’t stop,” she said.

“I wasn’t surprised by the amount of hard work that goes into being creative director because I think I’d gradually taken the role on.”

Molly-Mae Hague is the creative director of PrettyLittleThing. Picture: Instagram/Molly-Mae Hague.

But Ms Hague also said her role at PrettyLittleThing wasn’t as senior as people thought and had been a “gradual move” after a long relationship with the brand.

“I think people get it twisted and I think I’m in charge of the whole brand, and I’ve come in and I’m going to flip it upside down. But that’s just not the case,” she said.

“I give my creative input where I can and I give my ideas. I’ve been a consumer since the age of 14 so I know what I want to see from this brand.

“I’ve gone from being a PLT customer to an influencer to a brand ambassador and now the creative director.”

Ms Hague’s interview come after the influencer was slammed over “tone deaf” comments she made on a podcast went viral in January.

Ms Hague said her role was about giving ‘creative input’ into what customers wanted from the brand. Picture: Instagram/Molly-Mae Hague.

In December, she spoke about her success on the Diary of a CEO podcast, with comments she made about poverty and how “everyone has the same 24 hours” later making headlines.

“You’re given one life and it’s down to you what you do with it,” she said.

“When I’ve spoken about that in the past, I have been slammed a little bit, with people saying, ‘It’s easy for you to say that, you’ve not grown up in poverty, you’ve not grown up with major money struggles, so for you to sit there and say that we all have the same 24 hours in a day, it’s not correct.’”

Ms Hague acknowledged that while “we all have different backgrounds and we’re all raised in different ways and we do have different financial situation” she believes that “if you want something enough, you can achieve it”.

“It just depends to what lengths you want to go to get where you want to be in the future,” she said.

The reality star was slammed for saying everyone had the same 24 hours in their day. Picture: Instagram/Molly-Mae Hague.

“And I’ll go to any lengths. I’ve worked my absolute a*** off to get where I am now.”

On Twitter, people have slammed Ms Hague’s comments, likening it to telling homeless people to “just buy a house”.

Ms Hague’s Wikipedia entry was even briefly edited to change her name to Molly-Mae Thatcher, in reference to conservative UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

The entry said she was famous for “having worked harder than anyone less successful than her”.

In response to the controversy, Ms Hague took to her Instagram story, explaining that her comments were “never with malice or ill intent”.

“I apologise to the people that have been affected negatively or misunderstood the meaning of what I said in the podcast, the intentions of the podcast were only ever to tell my story and inspire from my own experience,” she wrote.

Originally published as UK influencer Molly-Mae Hague reveals 13 hour working day