Love Island star Malin Andersson has revealed she’s “quitting the UK”- after revealing there was “nothing left” in her hometown for her.
Malin, who rose to fame on the second season of the Love Island dating show in 2016 took to Instagram this morning to reveal the reasoning behind her decision.
The former Love Island star is currently in Portugal with her daughter Xaya, as she gave her followers an update on their living situation. “Update. Me and Xaya are in Madeira. My best friend lives here and we’re going to be here for a week before I go on my next adventure to Barcelona, because I’ll be dropping her off to see her dad for a week,” she said.
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Opening up about her past, Malin spoke about how she moved from Sweden to the UK when she was three, and had been in Bedfordshire ever since. “Take away work and things like that, and your safety net becomes the town that you’re in, the people, the same faces, those same things,” she continued.
However, upon reflection Malin reaslised that there was “nothing here for me.” Emotionally opening up, the star said: “I came with a family, and I’m leaving without anyone. I don’t speak to any of my siblings, they all live separate, my parents are dead, I have no family. It’s just me and Zaya.”
The 32-year-old then revealed: “I had enough. I felt like my soul was taken out of me. I was functioning being a zombie doing the same thing. When you’ve known stress, suffering, and trauma your whole life, and just s**t, you go through the healing phase, the void, you go inwards, you isolate and then you come out. And it’s like, I need change, so that’s what I’ve done.”
Malin then explained how she had “no ties” in England whatsoever, and needed “adventure, fun, travel and joy.”
She then went on to say she was recalibrating her nervous system after “coming out of the matrix” of routine, and that there was a new life waiting for her on the other side.
“It feels surreal. I’ve got a lot of grief as well. Grieving the c**p life that I had. 29 years of sadness really. Obviously I’ve had Xaya, that’s been my highlight. But just loneliness, grief, the way I’ve been treated by people, losing my family. I guess I’m just grieving at the moment.”
In the caption, Malin wrote: “I didn’t realise until the day I decided to leave that the area we are born into is designed to keep us there… forever.
“Until we realise the more we expand and break free into the world, our external reality will reward our nervous system by expanding the abundance that’s available to us.”
Just a year after her stint in the villa, Malin tragically lost her mother to stomach cancer. Four years later, in 2022, the Love Island star announced the birth of Xaya with then boyfriend Jared. However, just weeks after Xaya’s birth, the couple decided to call it quits.