{"id":221323,"date":"2026-02-07T01:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T01:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/07\/jesy-nelson-wanted-to-quit-little-mix-after-two-years\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T01:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T01:01:11","slug":"jesy-nelson-wanted-to-quit-little-mix-after-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/07\/jesy-nelson-wanted-to-quit-little-mix-after-two-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesy Nelson wanted to quit Little Mix after two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2026-02-07\" datetime=\"1770426071\" pubdate=\"\">7 February 2026<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/jesy-nelson\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,jesy-nelson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jesy Nelson<\/a> wanted to quit Little Mix after two years.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Jesy Nelson wanted to quit Little Mix after two years<\/p>\n<p>While the 34-year-old singer eventually quit the girl group in 2020, she admitted that she was ready to say goodbye to her bandmates Perrie Edwards, Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Jade Thirlwall seven years before she actually left.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the Great Company with Jamie Laing podcast , Jesy confessed: \u201cThat [leaving] presented itself far before I made that decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a time where I was like &#8216;oh, I want to leave&#8217; and I remember sitting down with my family\u2026 and it was actually because of my brother that in the end I stayed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first time I wanted to leave I remember I went home and we were kinda weighing up the [pros and cons]\u2026 and at that point we weren&#8217;t even at our biggest.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWe were, it had only been like two years, but we were still big. Everyone still knew who Little Mix were so it was like &#8216;if you leave now, what are you going to do?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cMy brother was like &#8216;you are so much stronger than you give yourself credit for and I think you can stick this out for another few years&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI&#8217;m going to be completely honest about what he said, he said &#8216;just make as much money as you can, you&#8217;ve got a chance to really change your family&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cIf somewhere in you can do this for another few years, do it, and then leave, because you&#8217;ll never get this opportunity again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nJesy now believes her brother was right and she is happy she stayed for so long, especially if it means she might get access to more treatments for her nine-month-old twin daughters Ocean Jade and Story Monroe, who were recently diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Type 1, a rare muscle wasting disease<\/p>\n<p>\nSpeaking during a Q   A following a London screening of the first episode of her Prime Video docuseries Jesy Nelson: Life After Little Mix at The Cinema at Selfridges, she said: \u201cI really believe that we&#8217;re going to make real change. I really feel it and I&#8217;m so proud that, you know we&#8217;re going to raise a lot of awareness in terms of everything with their diagnosis &#8211; even down to the twin-to-twin transfusion.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cIt&#8217;s always hard, because I think a lot of people would maybe choose to not share this. But for me, when you go through something like this in your life, it puts everything into perspective. It&#8217;s so important to me for everyone to see this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/jesy-nelson-wanted-quit-little-mix-after-two-years-1437299.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 February 2026 Jesy Nelson wanted to quit Little Mix after two years. Jesy Nelson wanted to quit Little Mix after two years While the 34-year-old singer eventually quit the girl group in 2020, she admitted that she was ready to say goodbye to her bandmates Perrie Edwards, Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Jade Thirlwall seven years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2361],"class_list":{"0":"post-221323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-jesy-nelson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}