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So Zoe, lovely to meet you. Now, you've been filming Lil Lets' 'Becoming a Teen Campaign'
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today. Everyone, well a lot of people, call you the perfect role model. Are there a lot
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of pressures with that?
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Definitely. It's not something I set out to do originally, but it's a nice type of pressure.
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It's not something that I wake up everyday, and I'm like oh no what am I going to do?
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It's a nice thing.
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You've done a lot of videos, especially around body confidence as well. One of them was like
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being called skinny. What kind of response did you get to that?
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Mostly just people who were so reassured that they weren't the only person that was going
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through the same thing, and there was also a lot of people on the other side of the spectrum
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that was like I never would have thought of that before you mentioned it. Yeah, I think
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a lot of people are very quick to comment on people's size and body weight, when really
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that's something that should probably be avoided.
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You've made it no secret that you kind of suffer from anxiety and panic attacks, things
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like that. What kind of advice do you give out to people to combat that kind of thing?
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I always say, it's obviously not very nice. Talk about it first. If nobody knows what
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you're going through, it makes it a lot harder for you. So tell your close friends, family.
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Let them know how you feel when you feel panicky, what they can do to help, but also I think
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try really hard to push yourself to do things because you start to feel a lot more confident
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once you've conquered something that you never thought you would do. You go on to do more,
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and panic attacks don't kill you, so never let it beat you.
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How have you been coping because you're at what? Four million subscribers now on YouTube
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and over a million followers on Twitter. All this pressure, how do you kind of cope with that?
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Sometimes it does make me go wow okay. That's a lot, and it's not something that I'm used
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to, and it can make me feel quite anxious. But also I think I just enjoy it so much that
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it's not really something that I have to think about too much in a negative way. So, I don't know.
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It's fun. It's too fun to worry.
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And there's a lot of you who are doing these kind of vlogs now. I think you're called the
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Brit Crew. Is that right?
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Something like that, yeah.
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Is there a lot of competition between you guys about who is going to get the most views,
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who is the most popular?
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If anything, I would say it's completely the opposite. Like there's no competition at all.
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We're all friends. We all film with each other and help promote each other. If someone's
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got something coming out or a launch, we're all backing them. I think it's more of just
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like friends, like holding hands and going together really, which is nice.
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Now, I know that you have met One Direction. Obviously, a massive following with teenagers
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especially. What was that like for you?
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On the day, I think I stayed quite calm, but afterwards when I realised what I'd just done,
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I did have a little bit of a freak out moment. I was like how did I just do that? But they
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were really nice guys, and it was really fun.
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Do you think they're good role models?
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Yeah, I think they are. There's a lot of people that look up to them and the things they do,
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and I think they've probably helped a lot of people.
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Next for you. Obviously, you're making it in the online world as such. Would TV be something
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that you would look to move into?
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I don't know. I think that online is where it's all happening right now, but
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I don't know. Just rolling with it.
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So where can you see your channel kind of going now?
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Um... I always get asked this question, and I never really have an answer because... As
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it started as a hobby, and it progressed to this point, I don't really know where it's
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going progress to. It's all still so new and exciting and things literally pop up, like
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within seconds, and you never know what's going to happen. So I just hope it continues
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to be as exciting and fun, and yeah, just keep growing.
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What would you say your top five tips say for being more confident and self assured?
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I would say to not care too much about negativity that anyone could be giving you. If you let
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things like that get to you, then you know, it's never going to get you anywhere. Just
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be happy. Have fun. Nobody's perfect. Everyone's different, but that's the great thing about
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it. Nobody's the same, and what else? Smile more.
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That's a good one. That's good one.
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How do you deal obviously? There are a lot of people who do look up to you. How do you deal with
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negativity though? Because obviously going through life, especially being a teenager,
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you do have to deal with people not being so nice to you. So how do you deal with negative
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side of things?
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At first, it used to affect me more than it does now. I think when you hear so much. Obviously,
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I get it through comments and things sometimes, but you just have to grow a bit of a thick
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skin about it, and you just have to remember that those are not the people that you want
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to be focusing your attention on. It's the people that love what you're doing that appreciate
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everything that you do and the people that you could help support that deserve the attention.
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So I think it's just a matter of having to brush it off, and be like nope, not bothering.
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Now obviously, so many people look up to you as a role model. Who would you say is your
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role model?
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This is a difficult one, which I also get asked quite a lot. I don't ever really particularly
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have one role model. I always just think it's nice to have people around me that are happy
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and positive and just really supportive and they're normally my role models.
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Good answer. Well, thank you very much Zoe, and good luck as well.