LOVE Island’s Malin Andersson has slammed dads who “dodge” maintenance payments for their kids in a new video.
The reality star-turned wellness guru, 32, called financial manipulation a “very serious tactic”.
She said: “They try and control you with the knowing that you might need the money and when you don’t get it you’re going to wonder why, and then withholding it creates confusion and doubt in your brain and gets you angry.”
The single mum advised her followers who find themselves in a situation like that to “remain calm and collected”.
She added: “Know your facts and where you stand with the government and how they can help you.”
Malin then highlighted the Child Maintenance Service’s Collect and Pay system as a secure way of receiving money owed.
Two years ago, Malin used her platform once again to shine a spotlight on economic abuse in relationships, opening up about how she was controlled by an ex who used their finances as a weapon.
She wrote: “95% of women who experience domestic abuse report experiencing economic abuse, and one in six women have experienced financial abuse in a current or former relationship. I was part of this scary and heartbreaking statistic.”
Now using her voice for good, Malin found fame on the second series of Love Island in 2016, lasting twenty five days in the villa.
Malin has long since turned her back on the celebrity circuit and the fame she found on the second series of Love Island in 2016 for a more holistic and rewarding life involving meditation, spirituality and motivational speaking.
Last month, she revealed she has started training as a midwife.
She said: “After everything I’ve experienced in life and motherhood, I feel called to walk alongside women at one of the most sacred thresholds of life.
“This isn’t me ‘giving up’ on my voice or speaking it’s me grounding it in something deeply real.
“I’ll always continue sharing, writing and creating, but this time it will come from an even more rooted place.”
Malin said she wanted to draw from her experiences of losing a baby, pre and post natal depression and single parenting, and put it to positive use.
It followed her stating in August that she had left the UK following years of trauma.
Writing from Madeira, she said: “I decided I’d had enough. I felt like my soul had been taken out of me, like I was functioning like a zombie just doing the same things.
“When you’ve known stress, suffering and trauma your whole entire life you go through the healing phase, go inwards, and then you need change. So that’s what I’ve done.
“I have no ties in England left anymore at all – no house, car, anything – that’s it. I need adventure, travel, fun and joy. Even though I’ve just got here it’s like my nervous system has creeped up on me since it’s only known how to be the other way.”
Malin was the victim of horrific domestic abuse at the hands of ex-partner Tom Kemp, who was sentenced to nine months in prison in 2020 for assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
Her baby daughter Consy passed away at four weeks old in 2019 from complications of being born prematurely.
In January 2022, she welcomed her second child – daughter Xaya – with her ex-boyfriend Jared.
But four weeks after the birth, the pair split and Malin turned to drink and drugs to cope with her new life as a single mum.
What followed was a three-week stay in a £12,000 rehab centre to beat the substances.
She previously told us: “I would drink a lot. It could be three bottles of wine, or champagne, or whatever, then shots…
“Drugs weren’t involved all the time, but they were if I was with the wrong crowd.
“Then I’d go back to normal and that would last for a few weeks – then the cycle would be repeated again.”
Having got herself in a good place, Malin found love with Jim Sundgren last year, but they split in November, just two months after going official, which Malin said made her feel “embarrassed”.
