Quotes from Leigh-Anne Pinnock

Our mums came on tour and mine was baffled by it all. She kept saying in the car: 'You just do this on your own? Don't you want to be with people? This is so lonely!' I guess we're just used to it. It is a funny little world.

Anybody is a beach body is what I love to say.

I love my little bum and my waist.

I love legs, bums and tums classes.

For years within the group I felt very overlooked and invisible, and I carried these feelings for such a long time. I just felt like no matter what I did, it was never on par with the other girls in the group.

When I am on my own, I get nervous and have butterflies.

I hope I can help one person and change things, my work will be done.

I know there are girls of colour out there who have felt the same as me. We have a massive problem with racism, which is built into our society.

I know there are girls of colour out there who have felt the same as me.

Sometimes I felt I was being treated differently to my bandmates because of the colour of my skin.

I think when you look at Little Mix you think pop, colour, you think fun - you don't really think that there are actual things that we all go through, but we all do go through things and we do have a lot to say.

Do not let anything hold you back - especially the colour of your skin, that's ridiculous and it shouldn't be anything to hold you back.

I'm not going to lie, the first three years of being in the group, I would look for trolls. I would search Leigh Anne. I would look through Twitter and I would search Leigh Anne from Little Mix, the black girl in Little Mix, I would put these things in my search engines just to see the comments.

A compliment goes a long way.

To be anti-racist you have to be actively a part of dismantling the systems that surround you and the systems that you benefit from.

We're proud of how we've stuck together, stood our ground, surrounded ourselves with strong women and are now using our voices more than ever.

These sorts of conversations should be second nature, it shouldn't be hard to talk about race.

If we want to wear a jumper and it says something weird on it and everyone says 'what are they wearing,' we don't really give a crap.

Just because we're a girl band doesn't mean that we're not credible artists.

I had a recurring dream when I was younger where red foxes would chase me under tables. It was so weird. And I kept having the same dream.

What I address is that I know that if I was some shades darker that I wouldn't be in the band. I think that was so important for me to address because it is true.

We all know that racism is a massive horrible issue in this country and I really wanted to delve deeper into it.

Me, Jesy and Jade were all told at our first audition that they could see us in a girl group. All of us were a little bit disappointed because they thought we weren't good enough on our own.

For me, diversity is just so important and I want my children to be able to watch TV and see themselves.