Perrie Edwards and Jade Thirlwall.Jesy walked away from the band to focus on her mental health, and has now spoken in depth about why she left.The singer compared the group to ‘a machine’ and claimed she was rarely allowed to make her own decisions.She also recalled feeling pressured into wearing bikinis when she wasn’t feeling confident in herself.Speaking to Reign with Josh Smith, Jesy said ‘people don’t realise how hard it is to be in a girl band’ and that she ‘couldn’t switch off’.She shared: ‘I mean I feel like some people won’t understand it and will think this is a bit dramatic, but just little things like being able to wear what I want to wear… when it came to little things, like if we had to do a video and everyone had to wear.
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