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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Megan Elizabeth McKenna is an English television personality and singer. After making appearances on Ex on the Beach (2015–2016), she received wider attention for appearing on Celebrity Big Brother (2016) and The Only Way Is Essex (2016–2017). McKenna then launched her music career, releasing her debut studio album, Story of Me (2018), and she later went on to win The X Factor: Celebrity (2019). Since her win, McKenna has continued to release music, as well as competed in the BBC series Celebrity MasterChef (2021).
What I would like to say to my younger self is, 'You really need to accept the way you look.'
I think getting that taste of being in the TV industry and singing live and stuff was like I just want this so bad.' But it's taken me so long, it's so difficult.
When I came out of Big Brother' and saw it all back, I was like: Oh my god, my mouth! My nan's going to kill me.' I just can't behave like that.
People need to remember that a lot of my growing up was done on camera.
There is only so much you can do in a relationship and when it's not working you've got to take separate routes.
I definitely think people think celebrities have it easy. I think they have it twice as hard as someone going to a nine-to-five sitting in an office because they can keep their private life to themselves.
I don't go around screaming at people every day of the week.
I want people to see that I'm not just about reality TV - music is what I've always wanted to do.
When I get really bloated my belly can swell up to the point where I literally look two months pregnant.
When I get a really bad bout of painful bloating and that urgency that I need to go to the toilet, and I'm out on a night out with my friends, there's been times when I've had to leave and go back. Because there's no way I want to be in that situation where I'm in a club and really unwell.
My mum used to say to me every morning, 'Megan, your lips, they're so big.'
Look, I've had a few arguments on TV. But anybody who has an argument on TV is never going to come across well.
I have grown up a lot over the years and now I can laugh about the silly mistakes I made on TV.
People I thought would never actually like my music, now follow me on Twitter who didn't before, because of my music.
I'm coeliac and I'd constantly have a bad belly from a night out.
I'd love to get involved in X Factor,' maybe - never say never.
It is, writing music is like therapy for me, it's like writing everything down in a diary. It's my way of getting all my emotions and feelings out on paper.
I don't agree with lip filler now, it can be dangerous and I think people need to love the way they are.
And I think coming off of reality shows, people have a perception of me and they judge me on shows I've done and it's really difficult to be taken seriously.
I was obsessed with my lips and used to think, 'They're not big enough!' Looking, back, I'm totally embarrassed. I'd lost sight of what a normal face looked like.
I'm a confident, bubbly girl who speaks my mind.
I just really wanted to be taken seriously in my music and I feel like I've done the reality shows and I've loved it, but sometimes you just need to pull away and take time for yourself.
I know people judge me from the shows I've been on, but I was growing up on telly, making mistakes, saying stupid things.
I love to sing country music and pop music.
If I feel there's any weird tension or not a very nice vibe going on, I just remove myself from the situation.
I have stripped back with loads of things, my hair, my make-up, my lips, right down to my clothes. I feel less is more.
I honestly think I had a massive dose of body dysmorphia.
Louis Walsh and I talk a lot about my music, and he's really happy with how it's going.
I used to edit my pictures and make my lips look even bigger in the editing apps.
In the past I've had a very small independent label help me do an album and I'm so grateful for that, but as anybody knows in the music industry, that is down there.
You never know what's coming round the corner.
I was going to a lot of auditions and doing interviews, and afterwards the comments were always about my lips.
I feel like my life was meant to happen - I was meant to go on this crazy rollercoaster and now I'm releasing pop music, which is what I've always wanted to do.
Yeah 100 per cent, I feel like I've been trying to crack the music industry now for a long time and it's been hard crossing over from reality to doing music.
People need to remember that people edit their pictures, they change the way they want to look.
I think every young girl who's been through a lot with relationships and trusting people has an inner psycho.
I know all this Instagram thing, looking online and wanting to look like other people, I was doing that massively. You lose yourself a bit.
I know I dress up for stage but that's a different story, if you see me in my day to day clothes, I am on a much different vibe to what I used to be.
I used to think if I didn't have a drink it was going to be a rubbish night, so I'd drink purely to get drunk.
I'm taking loads of vitamins, drinking herbal teas, I steam every single day. I constantly steam. I have to, it is a really good way to keep your vocal chords healthy.
Louis Walsh has supported me for a few years now and he's always loved my voice.
I'm just the same as everybody else.
On Towie' everyone is like 'Oh look at Megan she's having a meltdown, she's crying over someone' but no, I just want them to see me not doing stupid things.
I was nobody in Nashville and I was thankful for that. I had to get by on my talent.
I'd like a proper traditional wedding - I don't like all that doing it abroad.
I'm not one of them who will get up and mime - I want to completely perform.
I have completely cut out the partying but if there's a celebration I'll have a little cocktail.
It's been a tough journey for me, with a lot of ups and downs but I don't regret anything.
I realized I didn't want to be doing that anymore. I would go out and get paralytic. I'm talking downing the Jagerbombs like you would not believe. I don't know how I did it.
Instagram is kind of a big lie at the end of the day.
I'm always going to have Coeliac disease, it's a serious thing and it's life changing.
I don't go out partying at all.
For years I'd wanted a boob job but I've realized that, actually, I like them small.
I just feel like finally people are taking my music seriously and I've been doing this for so long, and I just need a break and I feel like I'm getting it.
I was really ill growing up as my body was rejecting everything.
Yes, I have my outbursts but I'm not nasty. And I only lose my temper for the right reasons.
I've had therapy, because as much as I have people around me to talk to, speaking to someone I don't really know just helps me to deal with emotions and put things in the right place.
The trolling annoys me, but it doesn't affect me. What I worry about is the young girls on my page who stick up for me and then get abuse themselves.
The way I dealt with things in the past with my exes was by screaming and that was not a good way to deal with it.
There are events on all the time in London and because I get nervous going to things, I'd down my drinks quickly.