Love Island’s winner Ekin-Su opens up about finding fame and staying true to herself.
Swishing blow dry, gold stilettos and a social media manager trailing behind her: on the day we meet Ekin Su is a whirlwind of activity e-touring her three million Instagram fans round her newly-launched 16 piece Oh Polly. She radiates self-assurance in a way that somehow suggests she's always been ready for fame.
‘I got bullied really badly at school purely because I was a confident person,’ she tells Grazia of her long-standing self-belief. ‘I had no friendsI think that really kicked me in the arse to be this strong woman…I looked in the mirror and thought I don’t need anyone,’ she adds of being cheated on numerous times, which taught her to rely on an ‘army’ of just one person: herself.
Her new collection is designed ‘for everyone to feel sexy, but still smart, but still expensive and Turkish all at the same time,' she says. But Ekin Su, although undeniably an icon, is not invincible: ‘If I’m honest, I have emotions,’ she says of the split between her fiery and fun public personality and the person she is in private. ‘I go home sometimes, and I cry,’ she says. ‘I’m not always confident. I’m not always perfect. No one’s perfect.
Keen to acknowledge imperfections, Ekin stopped using filters on Instagram for the sake of her teenage fans: ‘When I was 12, I would have an icon,’ she says. ‘I would try and look like this person and if this person was using filters, I would use them…I want to go back to my natural self,’ she explains.
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