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Molly-Mae Hague says she still sheds tears over a £2,000 coat she accidentally gave to charity last year.
The Love Island star has been chatting to fans about a Primark haul she gathered in her latest YouTube video. She saw a snug £40 jacket she loved while out shopping - but it sparked some desperate memories for her.
Talking before she set off for Milan for a fashion shoot, the busy mum says she had to grab the coat because it reminded her so much of her beloved £2,000 Max Mara one which has inadvertently found a new home. Explaining to fans all about her traumatic experience, she called it one of her biggest mistakes.
Molly-Mae's wardrobe clear out last year had a devastating end result (YouTube/ MollyMae)"That coat was my dream coat, I spent an absolute fortune on it," she told the cameras as she assessed the bargain find on her channel. "The coat was around two grand, something like that. It was insane, I had a splurge - I've never spent that much on one before, it was a real treat.
She continued: "Anyway, I was having a wardrobe clear out and the Max Mara ended up in the wrong pile! It ended up in a charity shop nearby. So someone is walking round in my Max Mara on and if the charity shop didn't know what it was, someone has got a bargain! Hopefully they did know and got some good money and it has gone to a great cause but I've never got over it. It was a big mistake and I still shed a tear when I think about it at night. Would I buy it again? Maybe, but only because it was the coat of my dreams."
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She's spotted a £40 coat which looks a lot like the £2,000 she inadvertently gave away (YouTube/ MollyMae)It's not the only issue she's had with a £2,000 jacket and she found herself in hot water after calling a Gucci coat "chav chic". The influencer, 24, unboxed the Gucci x The North Face coat on her Instagram Story back in 2021 and didn't seem to love it. Molly was instantly slammed by fans as "tone-deaf" for her comment as fans were enraged she used "a derogatory word for the working class" to describe the coat.
"Molly-Mae calling her gucci jacket 'chav chic' really does back my dissertation. Saying stuff like that with the potential of 'influencing' her 5 mill followers to use classist terms like that really does not sit well with me," one wrote.
Another told her: "It’s still a gross word to use especially in this context. she’s minted and she’s describing a coat that probably costs over 2K as 'chav chic' just seems a bit out of touch really" as a third put: ""Even if using classist slurs like 'chav' were okay, I don’t think wearing a genuine north face Gucci coat would constitute as 'chav chic' somehow."