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Pippa O'Connor hates to see trolls on social media

Pippa O'Connor
Pippa O'Connor

Pippa O'Connor Ormond has said that while social media has been "amazing" for her, she "hates" to see it used by people posting "incorrect or downright horrible" things.

Speaking about social media as a medium, Pippa told Ryan Tubridy on Friday night's Late Late Show, "I have based everything I do on social media. It's been amazing for me and I'm so grateful for it."

"When you see people using social media in the wrong way, when I see things written about people that are incorrect or downright horrible, I hate that, and it's very hard to read it about yourself or people around you," she added.

"You couldn't just print what you wanted in the paper - well, you could, but there's an implication - but it seems like people feel like they can say what they want online. I feel they should be more careful with what they say."

Pippa began her career as a model and made the move towards blogging when she was pregnant with her first child with husband Brian Ormond. She said the new venture came as a result of worrying about what she should do next if her modelling work began to dry up.

"I think I started it because I had time on my hands. I was pregnant and prior to that I was modelling for eight years maybe and things were slowing up, and I got a bit frightened and thought, 'What am I going to do with the rest of my life?''" she said.

"I just out of a hobby started a blog... I just simply started to document my style and my pregnancy fashion and it really grew organically from there."

When asked about the secret to her success, Pippa said she couldn't put it down to any one thing but that "whatever you start, you have to do it from actual passion and something you love, you can't start with thinking its going to make you famous or make you money."

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