Nina Nesbitt: Scotland will always be home – but London inspired my second album

The singer talks moving to London, her second album and body anxiety
Inspiration: Nina Nesbitt
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Emma Powell7 October 2015
The Weekender

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Singer songwriter Nina Nesbitt said life in London has inspired her upcoming second album.

Nesbitt, 21 – who hails from Edinburgh, Scotland – relocated to the capital on her own when she was 18 years old.

Speaking to the Evening Standard Online she said: “I moved to London permanently three years ago. It's been such an inspiring place to live. Most of my second album, which I'm still working on, has been based on experiences in this city and the people I've met. It's been such an amazing place to grow up in.

“I love Scotland and it'll always be my home, but I feel like once you reach a certain age you get that urge to escape and gain a bit of freedom and independence.”

Nesbitt – who is keen to work with Swedish music producer Max Martin and Niall Rogers – said fans can expect lots of collaborations on her forthcoming album which is set for release in early 2016.

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The Selfies singer – who rose to fame after playing her song Standing on One Leg to Ed Sheeran on a Scottish radio station – is currently involved in the Dove Self Esteem Project.

Research carried out by the brand found that more than one million girls in the UK have low body confidence with girls’ anxiety over their appearance doubling between the ages of 13 and 18 as a direct result of their social media usage.

Nesbitt – who got involved with the project to represent younger girls – has found herself the victim of online trolls.

“It does get to you even if you become better at dealing with it,” she said. “It's crazy how a stranger can feel the need to comment something negative about someone they don't know. I don't think people realise the effect it can have on the person on the other side of the screen.

“But it can work both ways. If you get lots of likes it can give your confidence a boost."

She also revealed that modelling played a part in her own body anxiety and that she frequently worried that she was “too skinny”.

“I definitely experienced more body anxiety when I was younger,” she said. “I always worried that I was 'too skinny' and had no shape as people used to comment on this. People called me anorexic.

"But as I've got older I've become comfortable in my own skin and as happy as I can be with my body. I think if you're happy with yourself it really shows."

Nina has partnered with the Dove Self-Esteem Project to help girls realise the only ‘like’ that matters is their own - #NoLikesNeeded selfesteem.dove.co.uk.

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